How did a good girl go bad?
Addiction.
The book is based on a true story told in the author's unbridled words, without polish or prose. It's a memoir of how the author became addicted to gambling without any insights into how to recover from it.
Throughout the book, the author shares her haunting and captivating roots of why, in her true tale of dark family secrets, abuse, childhood trauma, crime, and ultimately entering recovery.
By reading this book one day at a time, one page at a time, you can learn about this remarkable and brave woman's story of redemption.
BIOGRAPHY Catherine Townsend-Lyon is the influential writer of her gripping memoir titled "Addicted To Dimes," and a contributing writer and author of the recovery compilation book titled "Ten The Hard Way: Real Voices of Recovery," both available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Catherine is a long-time advocate of addicted gambling recovery and has successfully maintained her recovery lifestyle for over 15 years; born in New Jersey and raised in Southern California, she has become a tireless gambling recovery a advocate, raising awareness and educating the public about the dark & dangerous side of gambling.
She is a dynamic speaker and shares her story through radio shows, podcasts, and speaking events. Catherine has been interviewed and featured in magazines like Time, Natuilas.us, and Recothe very Today, and news media of NBC with Scott MacFarland and CNN iReport. Catherine is a former contributing writer for Keys to Recovery Newspaper, InRecovery, and Recovery Today magazines.
Catherine continues to share her recovery journey and helpful resources on problem gambling recovery on BetFreeRecoveryNow.wordpress.com website as she mentors many who reach out for help, hope—sharing that no one is alone and need not suffer from gambling addiction in silence...Catherine resides in Glendale/N—Phoenix, Arizona.
A very haunting read. An amazing look and teachable read about gambling addiction and the underlying roots to how pain and trauma as a child can carry this and turn to addictions later on in adulthood. So brave to share her story in this exceptional memoir.
A very inspiring memoir, and more importantly, it is not HOW to recover but the how and why she became an addict. The roots to the disease of addiction.
Book Detail
Title
Addicted to Dimes (Confessions of a Liar and a Cheat)
Author
Catherine Townsend Lyon
ASIN
B00CSUJI3A
Publish Date
14, May 2013
Publisher
Kodel Publishing Group
Language
English
Page Count
224
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