Eternally Expecting: A Mom of Eight Gets Sober and Gives Birth to a Whole New Life.Her Own (Eternally Amy)

Harrison, Amy Liz

ISBN 10: 1951407547 / ISBN 13: 9781951407544

Published by Launch Pad Publishing, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eternally Expecting: A Mom of Eight Gets Sober and Gives Birth to a Whole New Life.Her Own (Eternally Amy)
• Publisher: Launch Pad Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1951407547
• ISBN 13: 9781951407544
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

To recovering 80s kid Amy Liz Harrison, getting sober and giving birth were shockingly similar.And she's uniquely qualified to know since she's been sober for over a decade and has given birth to eight children (nope, this sentence has no typos). Before she was a sober mom of an army and living in the suburbs of Seattle, Harrison was a creative Christian kid in 1980s Mountain View, California (Google and Facebook hadn't made it cool yet). After running amok at church camp and dreaming of becoming the next Madonna, she moved to Los Angeles, graduated from college and married an airline executive. Grounded by life as a young teacher turned stay-at-home mom to four kids, Harrison watched her husband's career soar. He gained altitude, earning promotions and relocating the family as he struggled with excess baggage. Depression, isolation, boredom and a devastating crisis of faith led to extra glasses (or bottles) of wine at the end of the day. Which eventually led to being led away from her kids in handcuffs. Ten years of sobriety and four more babies later, Harrison realized that giving birth and getting sober were kinda sorta the same. In some ways, her story is unique (really, who has eight kids these days?), but it's also the experience of many other travelers. People get sober and transform their lives. Jet lag, childbirth or alcoholism-they all require recovery.Try not to gasp through Harrison's wild trip from Bay Area adolescent to young mother to incarcerated drunk and ultimately to the epiphany that if she gives her health and recovery priority boarding, she can eternally expect everything else in her life to fly first class. A recovery memoir like no other, Eternally Expecting is a hilarious romp through a serious issue and a memorable story from one of recovery's most original new voices.

About the Author

Amy Liz Harrison is a mother of eight who married her husband in 1998 after knowing him for five months. Sober since 2011, this native Californian and Gen Xer survived rotary phones, bad perms and years of riding in the "way back" seat of the family station wagon. She holds a Bachelor's in Communication from Azusa Pacific University and lives with her brood in Bellevue, Washington, where she is currently working on her second book and spearheading a clandestine society of Biggie and Tupac conspiracy theorists.