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y separately published work icon Sex, Drugs and Meditation : A Memoir single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Sex, Drugs and Meditation : A Memoir
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'"I feel like throwing up. Sweat and tears mingle on my cheek. 'This will pass,' I try to convince myself. 'This will pass.' I have been at the meditation centre for six days. I have four days left to go. I could get up and walk out the door right now. No one would stop me. But then nothing would change.

And everything has to change." Mary-Lou Stephens was lucky to make it into her forties. Therapy and AA helped her recover from her upbringing in an evangelical household; her habit of shoplifting through drama school; her addictions to food, drugs and alcohol; a string of failed love affairs and the break up of several bands. She has landed a dream job as a radio personality. Life is looking good. Except that Mary-Lou has a new boss, a psychopath in a suit.

Determined to avoid MORE therapy and desperate to cope with an increasingly toxic work environment, Mary-Lou signs up for a ten-day meditation retreat that requires total silence, endless hours of sitting cross-legged, and a food-as-fuel kind of diet. For a woman who talks for a living, is rarely still and cooks for comfort, this was never going to be an easy task. Darkly funny and beautifully told, Sex, Drugs and Meditation is a tale for those of us who confuse being busy with being happy; the story of a woman who dared herself to stop talking and start living - and loving.' (Publisher's blurb)

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Secrets of a Bad Girl Made Good Phil Brown , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30-31 March 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of Sex, Drugs and Meditation : A Memoir Mary-Lou Stephens , 2013 single work autobiography
Secrets of a Bad Girl Made Good Phil Brown , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30-31 March 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of Sex, Drugs and Meditation : A Memoir Mary-Lou Stephens , 2013 single work autobiography
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