OC54 - David Griggs - Relapse after long term recovery, Dealing with Trauma and Signing a book deal.

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Today's episode is with David Griggs. He is an attorney, actually he's a legal super hero in my book because he handle a lot of sexual harassment cases for women, but his is also a soon to be published author! He took Anna David's memoir book proposal class called "All the write moves", got voted for the best proposal and won a meeting with a publisher, and he sold his book!

He'll tell that story in the interview along with his addiction and recovery story. David talks about some of the trauma he experienced growing up, switching addictions from alcohol to weed, to sex and even video games and the effects it had on his life.