I'd love to read her book called High on Arrival. I wonder if it's on bard or
bookshare.
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Wow, what a terrific article! Great that she's not only recovered but is
helping others who struggle.
Linda G.
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I've heard about her troubles for years and I remember when she wrote that last
book revealing the molestation by her father.
I hope she is helping those who need it and that she stays clean and sober.
Vic
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Hi, Vicky,
I think this is a great thing she's doing to help addicts by this new book.
Thanks for sharing this article with us.
Rosie
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Phillips inspires others to take it one day at a time By Bill Keveney,
@billkev, USA TODAY
Mackenzie Phillips practices what she preaches. The One Day at a Time
star, whose wild upbringing and addiction struggles have been the
subject of many headlines over the years, made a big change in her
life and is now an alcohol and drug counselor and the author of a new
book, Hopeful
Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
(Atria/Beyond Words), on sale Tuesday. As she entered her 50s,
Phillips, 57, decided to go back to school to become a counselor. "I'm
passionate about recovery. I love addicts.
I love this process of seeing the lights go on, seeing people wake up,
seeing people change," she tells USA TODAY. "I find that to be magical
and so much more fascinating than playing a character on television.
Phillips includes details of her own life, including her upbringing in
a drug-filled home, her
2008 arrest for heroin possession and her current happiness with her
career and life at home, which she shares with adult son Shane and a
gaggle of pets.
But the main focus is offering advice and hope to addicts and their
loved ones. "I thought, 'Wow, I have a lot of experience about what
it's like to relapse; to get into early recovery; what you're supposed
to do with your time, shame, guilt, trust. That's the book I want to
write,' " she says. The shorthand message she hopes to share is this:
"If you've gone down the rabbit hole of addiction, you don't have to
live that way anymore. "We do recover. There is a solution. Ask for
help. It's not as hard as you think. Healing is much different from
her 2009 memoir, High on Arrival, a best seller that told Phillips'
story of a "bizarre" childhood as the privileged daughter of rock star
John Phillips and a life full of excess, drugs and few rules. Phillips'
revelation
of an incestuous relationship with her father was a lightning rod,
drawing major media attention and backlash. She expects the new book
will receive a much different reaction. "I hope so. I can't see this
being on the front page of The New York Post. Thank God," Phillips
says. Phillips doesn't regret writing High on Arrival, saying the book
and the public reaction gave her valuable insight, but she decided
that Hopeful Healing would focus on lessons she learned in her
personal recovery and her four years working at Breathe Life Healing
Centers in West Hollywood. Her clients, depending on their age, often
recognize Phillips from One Day, which premiered in 1975; the 1973
film American Graffiti; or Disney Channel's So Weird, which ran from
1999 to 2001.
"We talk about it and I'm like, 'That is part of my story, but I've
dedicated my life and my heart to doing this type of work, so if we
can put that aside and connect as Mack and client, let's see what
happens,'" she says.
Phillips
doesn't say how long her current sobriety has lasted. "What I have
found about time sober is that it doesn't necessarily treat or heal
addiction or alcoholism. It's what you're doing with the time that
matters," she says.
"Even if
I were to relapse, which I don't foresee, it doesn't make any of the
information in the book any less germane to recovery or any less true.
