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YOU’RE DOING GREAT!


       AND OTHER LIES ALCOHOL TOLD ME

       Dustin Dunbar




                                                                   ISBN 978-1-63756-031-0




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                                                                 Publication:   28  MARCH 2024
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                                                                 ISBN:           9781637560310
                                                                 Price:          £24.50
                                                                 Binding:        Hardback

                                                                 Format:         228 x 152 mm
                                                                 Extent:         256 pp
                                                                 Thema:          VS Self Help




                                                                   Everything you know about alcohol is a lie.

                                                                   Dustin Dunbar had it all. A beautiful wife, two sweet baby girls,
                                                                   a degree in psychology, and properties around the world—the
                                                                   building blocks of a nascent real estate empire. All the while,
                                                                   he happily believed every lie alcohol told him:

                                                                   “Real men drink.”
                                                                   “One drink won’t kill you.”
                                                                   “You’re the life of the party.”
                                                                   “You can’t stop.”

        Dustin Dunbar grew up poor in Midwest America with an abusive,   He believed these lies and many others until it was too late.
        alcohol-addicted father and grandfather, and vowed to never be like   Because of his addiction, he risked everything he valued most
        them. Devouring psychology books and researching addiction in his   and  nearly  lost  everyone  he  cared  for—until  he  started  to
        twenties, Dunbar earned a doctorate in psychology and believed at that   figure out that most of what we experience with alcohol is
        time  that  he  had  broken  his  family’s  chains.  In  2009,  Dunbar  was   completely fabricated, a big lie packaged with bright lights and
        handpicked by Ryan Seacrest for LA Shrink and Endemol Productions   big names to distract us from the truth. Dunbar calls this non-
        Dallas Life Coach, where Dunbar was the “Shrink” and “Life Coach” on   reality “the alcohol matrix,” and it took him years to break out
        those  pilots.  After  drinking moderately, responsibly,  and  socially for   of it and finally start enjoying a life free of alcohol addiction.
        twenty years, he too became addicted to alcohol. He overcame his
        addiction at the age of forty-eight and has since been helping others   Just  as  Holly  Whitaker  offered  women  a  radical  path  to
        overcome theirs. Dunbar is a coach at the Alcohol-Free Revolution, a   sobriety  in  her  New  York  Times  bestselling  Quit  Like  a
                                                                   Woman,  Dunbar  combines  his  own  experiences  with  his
        non-profit online community helping others with alcohol addiction and   extensive background in psychology to expose the lies we all
        raising consciousness.                                     too willingly accept about alcohol and interrogates the part
                                                                   culture plays in reinforcing these lies, particularly for men—
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                                                                   discover  the  real  you  that  thrives  on  the  other  side  of
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