Mark Mehigan has written his very first book.
The podcaster announced the news today, revealing his debut work will be released next year, and will be his “own story” about his alcoholism, getting sober, and change.
“It’s been very hard to keep this a secret but the day has finally arrived. My debut book This Is Not a Self Help Book is coming out with @gillbooks in March and is now available to preorder,” he wrote.
“I’ve spent the last year working on it and it’s the most important project of my career to date. It was always a dream of mine to write a book, so I can’t really believe it’s actually happening. Now, obviously I didn’t think it would take becoming an alcoholic in order to do so, but I suppose that’s just the game.”
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He went on: “I wrote this book in an effort to understand my own head. For too long I thought it was normal to feel trapped in your own life, imprisoned by your behaviours and cornered by your thoughts. This book is for anybody who feels the same but maybe worries that change is not an option.”
“I spent my twenties telling myself “I”m not the type of person who does X” or “I’m not the type of person who does Y”. By writing this book, I wanted to deconstruct the various myths I held about myself; myths that kept me in my lane, kept me drinking, kept me miserable and kept me obsessed with what other people thought of me.
“If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from getting sober, is that it’s never too late to change every aspect of your life. Things can always get better. I hope by reading this, somebody might be convinced of that. I’m talking about internally, though. Not in a business sense. I am not a life coach and there will be no ice baths involved.
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“Over the last 12 months, there were many ups and downs when writing my story. It’s hard revisiting the darker times and looking back on some of the pain I caused myself and others. On many days, doing the roasts together on Instagram provided me with the enormous lift you probably never knew I needed. Thank you for that.
“(Now go pre order a copy for someone as a Christmas present).”
Mark recently announced his engagement to Dancing With The Stars presenter Doireann Garrihy. The pair have been together for one year.
