- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Hazelden; 1 edition (April 1 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1592858945
- ISBN-13: 978-1592858941
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Interventionist Joani Gammill. Hazelden, $14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-59285-894-1 "Addiction trumps everything. Even love of my children," confesses Gammill in this incredible story of salvation. A registered nurse and mother of two from Maryland, Gammill transforms from an out-of-control drug addict to an "interventionist" who has helped eight women and one man take their first steps toward sobriety. Gammill tells their harrowing, stories, and her own, in this memoir of success, failure, and redemption. Gammill credits her own life-saving step toward recovery to self-help guru Dr. Phil McGraw, who responded to her written plea for help with a long, painful stint in rehab--and a gig on his TV show. While she tells the stories of others, like CJ, a woman who consumes almost anything that is mind-altering, but remains determined to fight an addiction that "came "to kill, steal and destroy," it is Gammill's unsettling story that best illustrates the one enduring truth about a sickness that can alter both a person's life and personality: the recognition that even in the throes of the disease, an addict is far more than the addiction. These tales should inspire and challenge addicts as well as their caregivers and families. (May) Reviewed on: 03/14 (Publishers Weekly )
Gammill, Joani. The Interventionist. Hazelden. May 2011. 336p. ISBN 9781592858941. pap. $14.95. MEMOIR Gammill was a nurse in a drug-and-alcohol rehab facility, not to mention an addict. In a dark moment, she reached out on live television to Dr. Phil and promised to get help (and did). Now an independent interventionist and recovering addict/alcoholic, she partners with Dr. Phil to help addicts of all kinds. This story-alternating between tales of interventions she has facilitated and her corresponding personal struggle through addiction, recovery, and relapse-is powerfully rendered in active and emotionally connected language. What I'm Telling My Friends This is Nurse Jackie staging interventions! She is human and gritty, someone you'd want in your corner if you were in need. Full of failures, bumps, and triumphs-she doesn't paint herself as fully savior or victim. (Library Journal )
Gammill, Joani. The Interventionist. Hazelden. May 2011. 336p. ISBN 9781592858941. pap. $14.95. MEMOIR Gammill was a nurse in a drug-and-alcohol rehab facility, not to mention an addict. In a dark moment, she reached out on live television to Dr. Phil and promised to get help (and did). Now an independent interventionist and recovering addict/alcoholic, she partners with Dr. Phil to help addicts of all kinds. This story-alternating between tales of interventions she has facilitated and her corresponding personal struggle through addiction, recovery, and relapse-is powerfully rendered in active and emotionally connected language. What I'm Telling My Friends This is Nurse Jackie staging interventions! She is human and gritty, someone you'd want in your corner if you were in need. Full of failures, bumps, and triumphs-she doesn't paint herself as fully savior or victim. (Library Journal )
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Through the life-changing intervention staged by Dr. Phil on his show, Gammill not only committed to getting help for her addiction, but she also went on to become a professional interventionist, helping thousands of others in distress. In The Interventionist, Gammill's own story is intertwined with depictions of her often harrowing and always inspiring interventions and those of some of the addicts and families she's worked with over the years. In each chapter she recounts details of a client's unique battle with addiction and the devastation that led to a loved one's request for her help. Gammill's story and the stories of the brave people who come to her for help demonstrates how it is possible to emerge from the seemingly hopeless world of out-of-control drug use and not only regain one's sanity, but actually discover that life clean and sober can be more meaningful than it ever was before.
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If you or a loved one suffers from addiction this book is a must read! I found it so brutally honest and I appreciate the fact that Joani herself is an addict in recovery so who best to tell it like it is. I was very touched by all the different struggles of each and every addict. Found it very difficult to put the book down, hope she does another!
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Great, honest, raw and unbelievable events written on every page. Reading this book was like being on an adventure - so blunt and scary one minute and sad and emotional the next. What great insight into the complex ( and not so evident) world of addiction. This book was written wonderfully and I truly enjoyed all of it - I was hooked from the first paragraph ( no pun intended).A must read for all - you WILL learn something! 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Great Book!!!,
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The author does an amazing job of telling her story by intertwining them with those of some of the interventions she has done. She has been through it all and has managed to turn it into something positive in her life and now helps countless others, not only addicts but their families as well. This book is a raw uncensored look at the disease of addiction and the havoc it reeks on the addict and those they come in contact with. Yes parts of this book are gut wrenching and sad, but from it comes an understanding of addiction and in a lot of cases the amazing and commendable accomplishment of overcoming the stranglehold of addiction. The author is brutally honest about her own story and holds nothing back, she really is an inspiration!
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5 stars! Must read for anyone who has a loved one dealing with addiction. Gritty view of Gammill's road to addiction and her redemption.
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