Glass Half Full (- Addiction Recovery series) Paperback – January 21, 2014

Too much talk about her kids and not enough about her drinking habit and how bad it got needed more details

Ms Rocca's story is one of inspiration for anyone who struggles with his or her relationship with alcohol. She recounts her own story with humor, clarity, and honesty as she describes the devastating and demeaning effects of alcohol dependency. Ms Rocca's creation of a website Soberistas to help, encourage, and support others in their own battles with alcohol is a stroke of compassionate genius that is part of the creative capacity of sobriety that she reclaims and describes in her book.

Lucy is such a captivating writer. Her honesty that is shared in this book is nothing less than noteworthy. Such a great read for someone who is really seeking to be better and to understand the "PROCESS" of progress not Perfection. Thanks Lucy! You rock! P.S. fellas, this book is for us guys too and much Needed!

Wonderful author - she is full of real life wisdom that I am grateful for. Very applicable advice that I refer to often. I love you Lucy!

Written passionately and from the heart, one of the most compelling books you will ever read if you want to quit drinking alcohol.

This book provides the reader with some valuable tools however there are those that really need the structure of AA to succeed. I have also read from the website Lucy created and again, admirable. Having an online sober fellowship cannot take the place of sitting in a room with other drunks, for that is what we are, and sharing your story and garnering strength from listening to another share theirs and having the ability to ask them questions when the meeting is over. Days sober are indeed celebrated here, just a tad too Pollyanna for me.

Insightful!

Very helpful, insightful and really honest account of the journey to sobriety and more importantly staying there. Loved it, well written and interesting

A wonderful and inspiring book. Lucy's whole story resonated with me so much due to me having been a single mum with a little girl and a big drink dependency. I cried at so many parts, especially when she describes reading the bedtime story with such disinterest and her little girl being so grateful. It really breaks my heart to think of all the times I was so short tempered/distracted because of hangovers, let alone how it must have affected my daughter to see her mummy drunk. I admire Lucy for telling her story in such a raw and exposing way. Let's face it, being out of control drunk is not pretty and her flashback's to terrible situations reminded me of all the awful situations I had found myself in over the years. Unlike one reviewer who found Lucy to be 'smug' over her present day life, I found it inspiring that she got to be a mum again and free herself from the chains of addiction. It gave me hope that I have that choice too. I had read Allen Carr's book 'Easyway to Stop Drinking' just a few day's before I read this. I understood everything he said but I still didn't feel free, in fact I drunk the very same night that I finished it. The next day I felt utterly defeated and hopeless but then I read Lucy's book and something changed. It made me see things with such clarity, as though I was able to take a step back and observe the futility of the looping behaviour I was in. For the first time in my life I feel excited about being free instead of feeling sorry for myself by thinking that I'm missing out on something. I am so grateful that Lucy shared her story.

Im half way through - often with books I can review at this stage or thereabouts , the factual ones anyway. Im on the road of losing the alcohol addiction and have , as Im sure many do , taken to literature on the subject to motivate. This is the fourth of such reading and it is the most difficult for me to get through. Maybe the author never really got to the place Ive been , for she baulks at the thought of drinking a pint of gin a week - I would easily do that in a night for starters. She seems to have had the ability to go running - an ex-sportsman myself , I could not possibly express an interest over the last ten years whilst under my cloud. It is topic repetitive , i.e pregnancies , weight issues, Soberistas - all very good but it gets wearing. Hopefully things will improve or I might not get to the end. Good luck future readers.

This is an excellent book that charts Lucy Roca's transformation from heavy drinker to teetotaller. The sober lifestyle is most definitely a no brainer, but like Lucy it took me a while to accept. Re-reading this book in my 4th year of being alcohol free was more enjoyable as I have lived through the positive changes she describes, I just needed a reminder as to how lucky I am to be living the dream of a life of self fulfilment without alcohol instead of my former existence of self destruction due to intoxication.

Woke up at 3am one morning with another self induced meltdown. Banging head, stomach churning and a flush in my cheeks from the cringing that I was doing thinking about the hours previous that had brought me to this point. I said out loud "I can't do this to myself again" it's been 8 months and I couldn't be happier. Lucy explains exactly in this book the emotions I went through and this helped me realise I had to keep going. There is strength in the words of this book. Thankyou Lucy. Good luck to anyone who decides to commit to a sober life. I can guarantee you won't ever regret it.

What a great book. I've recently stopped drinking and this book resonated so closely with my own story. It helped me so much at this early stage. I've highlighted so many paragraphs and will be going back to them many times. Thank Lucy Rocca = you are a wonderful person do helping so many other people.