Chris Kennedy Lawford – Moments of Clarity
Christopher Kennedy Lawford knows about the long rough road to recovery. His first book, Symptoms of Withdrawal was a New York Times Bestseller and gave an in-depth look into his own personal tale of addiction and self-destruction. Symptoms of Withdrawal described Lawford’s near fatal experiences due to his alcohol and drug addictions. However, along with the dark stories of drug and alcohol addiction, the book also described Lawford’s long road to recovery and ultimately, over 20 years of total sobriety.
Once Lawford saw the great response he received for his first book, it was obvious to him that his next book would concentrate on the staggering number of people who are struggling with addiction and the stories of their journey towards recovery.
The title of Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s latest book, Moments of Clarity: Voices From the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery, says it all. The book covers several tales of addiction, often with a Hollywood twist. Chris Lawford (part of the Kennedy family and son of actor Peter Lawford) tells the tale of Richard Dreyfuss’s “moment of clarity” which got him off cocaine, as well as accounts of addiction from Tom Arnold, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alec Baldwin and more.
In a recent review of Moments of Clarity: Voices From the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery, Publishers Weekly wrote, “The addicts’ journeys uniformly proceed through a “surrender” of the will, prayer on bended knee and entry into the loving congregation of the meeting; their struggle is really a spiritual one to purge themselves of selfishness and egotism and connect with God, or “whatever.’”
