A teaching memoir by Lori Baynham
Follow this remarkable story of how a fellow runner and alcoholic in recovery led Lori to the transformative path of emotional sobriety. In her quest for inner peace and happiness, she found life’s big question and answer.
The Happiness Hangover
How to kick high functioning codependency for good.
Meet the Author
Lori Baynham, with the guidance of a friend in recovery, “came to realize” over many shared training miles that she was just as much an addict as he was. Shocked at the realization, but finally aware that by hanging onto past hurts and resentments she had become an emotional hostage to things “out there” and that true happiness only comes from within. And here’s the best part - by following the 10 guiding principles that got her back on track, you can find the path that puts you in charge of your own happiness, too.
You are invited to join this extraordinary journey to help you unlock whatever emotional baggage is holding you back from the happiness of your heart’s desire. I am so glad you’re here.
Love and happiness to you, Lori
Lori was…
“put together” on the outside but crumbling inside . As she began revealing the details of her kind of “drunk” with her friend and fellow runner in recovery, she realized that addiction isn’t limited to drugs, alcohol, eating and shopping. Their friendship soared to a whole new level as she began learning how to transcend resentments, the number one contributor to any kind of addiction.
Follow the journey if you’re interested in taking charge of your own happiness from this day forth.
You’ll read the nitty-gritty details of what leads to the emotional addictions of admiration, appeasement, people-pleasing, and many other codependent behaviors that are coping mechanisms to change the way we feel. That’s how addiction works. We want to numb our pain by applying something from the outside to heal our emotional wounds, at least temporarily. But there’s a healthy, happy, permanent solution to kick high functioning codependency once and for all!
Join us for the emotional sobriety journey leading to true inner peace.
Our book release is pending, but we’d like to keep you in the loop on taking charge of your own happiness –starting now!
How emotional sobriety all begins.
When enough desperation summons enough courage, and an addict enters a recovery meeting for the first time, they are often greeted with a half-filled cup of coffee. Half-filled, because unsteady hands, trembling from withdrawal, may experience coffee sloshing over the rim.
The first sip is sometimes a gentle slurp—not out of disregard for manners, but to avoid burning the tongue. That first little slurp marks the beginning of something remarkable: a gateway to healing.
Emotional intoxication may not cause a trembling of the hands, but it certainly causes a trembling of the heart. When happiness is tethered to people and things outside oneself, another kind of desperation sets in—one that breeds resentment and loneliness, the common threads in all forms of addiction.
Sometimes the consequences of addiction become so grave that the addict is willing to try anything to change. This is known as the gift of desperation — a powerful catalyst for transformation.
Our slogan “slurp that coffee” honors the extraordinary gift that often begins with a gentle slurp of coffee and a willingness to begin anew.
