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No Lost Causes Club

by Lauren McQuistin

  • Blackstone Publishing
  • 2025
  • ISBN: 979-8874881948
  • 260 pages
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No Lost Causes
About the Book

Entwining practical, empathetic suggestions with intimate memoir, No Lost Causes Club is an intrinsically vulnerable and brutally honest exploration of what it looks like to live a full life after getting clean. From delving into the social complexities that often leave people hopelessly dependent on alcohol to centering the struggles of those newly navigating sobriety, this book is a soothing balm for anyone wondering how to carve out a beautiful life in a world that never made sense before. ebook icon Audio book icon
Lauren McQuistin
About the Author

Lauren McQuistin is trained as an operatic soprano, winning the district round of the Metropolitan National Opera Competition three times and performing as a soprano in Europe and North America. She uses her experience as a musician to teach trauma informed musicianship, and has been featured in the Journal of Singing for her research on the subject of trauma’s impact on the voice. No Lost Causes is written from her own experience of getting sober young, and facing the challenges of getting your life together when you feel your life hasn't even started and you're stuck in the space of already too far gone but not bad enough. Lauren runs the instagram page @brutalrecovery. She has been creating content there for five years, for recovering humans looking for identification, and a message with equal parts humour and hope.

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