“My intention is to live a vibrant life with curiosity”.

Tammy Roth is a courageous woman, a woman who understands thevalue of learning from your past. At five years sober, “cruisingalong and enjoying being substance free”, Tammy was an author,aRetreat Leader and the Clinical Director of a women’s recoverycentre. Life was looking good.

But self-awareness is a gradual journey and she eventually hadher “head falling out of her ass” moment - a sense that, as much asshe had wanted to see her childhood as “normal”, she needed toaddress the reality of the things thatdidn’t happen and their impact. The truthwas that as much as she cringed at wounded child phraseology, sheneeded to explore this part of her own story, acknowledge that whathad happened was not ideal. Fiercely rejecting a victim label,Tammy choose more empowering language, to see herself as a survivorand to embrace that everything happens for a reason and that growthis the result.

And so her journey of recovery, first outlined in her book “HighBottom, Letting go of Vodka and Chardonnay”, continued. Tammy couldsee that the way she had lived her life, even her sober life, upuntil now, was no longer working for her.

It was time for a new perspective and “New Bottom, Turning theother Cheek”, her second book, takes you along on the next chapterof her journey.

This is an open hearted, vulnerable and powerful conversationabout conscious choices, letting go of perfectionism, families,reckonings, soothing our inner chaos and a thousand newbeginnings.

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