Highlight Real

Finding Honesty & Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life

De: Emily Lynn Paulson

Narrado por: Emily Lynn Paulson

A music prodigy, head of her class, and well-liked in school, Emily Paulson decided early that embellishment paved the road to success. As she grew up, she figured out how to make the picture look even better - with a successful husband, five beautiful children, and all the required accompanying accoutrements.

Then along came social media, where those pictures of the perfect life grew her a following of women who believed that everything about Emily was #blessed #inspo. But behind the filtered façade was a reality filled with trauma, addiction, and dysfunctional behavior. From disordered eating to breaking the law and nearly destroying her marriage, Emily had been running from her own trauma for years. Living a life shot through with more self-destruction than she could track, Emily knew things had to change when she woke up one morning and realized that she was barely participating in the picture she had so carefully crafted.

Highlight Real: Finding Honesty & Recovery Behind the Filtered Life is the true story of what happens when a so-called perfect mother and businesswoman is forced to find reckoning with her past and build a future based on the authenticity she has always sought. Searingly honest, heartbreaking and packed with uncountable did-she-actually-just-say-that moments, Highlight Real is a memoir of healing as well as a fully modern look at what happens when the filters fall off and real life emerges into the light.

©2019 Light Hustle Publishing (P)2019 Emily Lynn Paulson

Speaking her truth ! So raw and vulnerable .

I couldn’t stop listening ! So good ! I live in Montana and related to much of her story .

beautiful and touching

thank you for sharing your story. it had me in tears many times, and I don't even know you nor had similar trauma.

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I would give this book 100 + stars if I could. First, Emily has a beautiful voice to listen to (some books I have to turn off if that is not the case), and, her story is filled with so much honesty and relatable experiences if one struggles with substance use disorder. This book is a game-changer for quit lit.

amazing

such an amazing story of overcoming trauma, addiction, and fear. I am so grateful to hear the hope in sobriety

Worthy

A true heartfelt story of addiction. One woman’s amazing battles with self love. Relatable on so many levels. Sharing her journey is a gift worth reading for anyone who has that little voice inside their head telling them to stop their own addictive secrets!