Before I Leave You: A Memoir on Suicide, Addiction and Healing

When Robert Imbeault began writing this book, he did so with the intention of ending his life once the book was finished. Robert was in the midst of a five-year suicidal drug and alcohol binge that began after the sudden resurfacing of a buried memory from when he was eight years old. Robert turned to writing, determined to chronicle his life before and after the violent encounter that shattered his reality. As his life inched back toward normalcy, Robert found new reasons to keep writing. After a series of small steps forward, and a few steps back, Robert found his way to sobriety. He regained his health and began to treat himself and everyone around him with love and kindness. Today, Robert enjoys a life filled with gratitude and joy he thought he'd never live to see. In Before I Leave You, he shares his real and raw account of how he clawed his way back from the brink, forgave himself, and wrote a new ending to his story.

Self-Help

Imbeault, Robert

Death & Grief

Houndstooth Press

An unbelievably real and authentic story of pain, growth, and new life.\nWhat if you could find happiness after addiction? Imagine the struggle was behind you and you felt grateful for every ounce of joy in your life. What if you KNEW how to be courageous and not just for show?\nIn his raw memoir, critically acclaimed and bestselling author, Robert Imbeault, shares how he found happiness after addiction. When the trauma of childhood abuse catches up with him, Robert begins a suicidal dance with drugs and alcohol sinking him to a series of rock bottoms. But through self-discipline, self-love, and small steps forward (and a few steps back), Robert transforms his life to one filled with gratitude and joy.\nHis story is a harsh reality of the darker side of Las Vegas and a reality check of how addicts hide their struggle and illness from family and friends.\nIn Before I Leave You, he shares his road to recovery, how he came to love himself, and most of all how he used forgiveness in his own healing.\nRobert is a co-founder of a wildly successful startup which he helped build while he struggled with his addiction. What started out as a good-bye letter turned into this book.\nIf you are looking for a compelling, well written, raw and honest account of letting go and how to heal buy this book!

Review\n"Self-deprecating humour shines through in Rob Imbeault's latest book, a collection of hilarious, thoughtful, and candid personal essays on topics not often discussed by men. When reading memoir you really want to like the narrator and trust me, you can't help but fall a little bit in love with this one because he makes himself so vulnerable and real one minute and then cracks you up the next. After reading his first book you'll find yourself breathing a huge sigh of relief that he made the herculean climb out of suicidal darkness and now, rejoice along with him as how well it's all going. Bravo Rob Imbeault!" - Laurie Gough, author of Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, Kiss the Sunset Pig, and Stolen Child\nFrom critically acclaimed, #1 Amazon Bestselling author Robert Imbeault comes I Can’t Believe How Well It’s Going: Essays—a brand- new collection of essays filled with stories of questionable decision making, biased observations, and sincere vulnerability.\nTL;DR? If you want to laugh, buy this book. In I Can’t Believe How Well It’s Going, I will regale you with tales of stand-up comedy, a lifelong skirmish with religion, and losing my shit during a 10-day silent meditation retreat. I whine about losing a friendship because I was an asshole, discovering I had an older sibling after forty-five years, and how an interview with an author of erotica changed the way I view porn. I explain why I trained in a boxing club for over a decade to never actually fight, how changing a diaper at thirty-thousand feet went very wrong, and how a May-September romance went right. I also share something incredibly personal. If this is uninteresting to you, then there is no need to read this book, but I still hope you do because it might make you laugh. There’s definitely science that proves laughing helps reduce stress, and reducing stress can help improve and even save your life, which means that science supports the claim that reading my book might save your life. But if you hate the book and don’t laugh, you might want to tell people how much you hate it, which gives you purpose. Science also maintains that having a purpose helps reduce stress, and reducing stress can help improve and even save your life, which means that there’s even more science to support the claim that reading my book might save your life. Just stating the facts here, folks.

I Can't Believe How Well It's Going: Essays

Biographies & Memoirs

Wivi Press

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Before I Leave You: A Memoir on Suicide, Addiction and Healing

Before I Leave You: A Memoir on Suicide, Addiction and Healing

I Can't Believe How Well It's Going: Essays