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Sex, Drugs and Meditation : How One Woman Changed Her Life, Saved Her Job and Found a Husband - Mary-Lou Stephens

Sex, Drugs and Meditation

How One Woman Changed Her Life, Saved Her Job and Found a Husband

By: Mary-Lou Stephens

Paperback | 17 May 2021

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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.


Mary-Lou Stephens was lucky to make it into her forties. Therapy and 12 Step programs 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 the band she thought was really going to make it. Things are looking up when she finally lands her dream job in radio. Life is good. Until her dream job becomes a nightmare.


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 no dinner. For a woman who talks for a living, is rarely still and eats for comfort, this was never going to be an easy task.


Sex, Drugs and Meditation is a tale of learning to sit still, shut up and gain wisdom. Mary-Lou must take the hardest path of all: to confront and overcome, once and for all, the darkness within.

Industry Reviews
Bracingly honest, funny and rewarding, this is a book you can't put down.
- Sydney Morning Herald

Stephens knows how to write a story, and she does so with honesty and good humour.
- MindFood Magazine

Funny, sage, insightful and just a little bit twisted.
- Who Magazine

If she wrote a book a year Mary-Lou would be in my list every year. She is a brilliant writer and after just a few pages you are lost in her world and can't put the book down
- Walter Mason, author and speaker

Perfection. Sex, Drugs and Meditation is one of the best memoirs I have read in years. Humble, witty and so very, very true. All I wanted was for this book never to end.
- The Universal Heart Book Club

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