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My Year of Living Vulnerably
- Narrated by: Rick Morton
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From Rick Morton, the author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma, and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably.
'Wonderfully readable and wide-ranging exploration of the visible and invisible touchstones of our lives...this is nourishing reading for our lonely, frightening, and fraught times. Part self-help book, part treatise on the importance of love, kindness, and forgiveness...Morton is a national treasure and we need more like him." (Books+Publishing)
In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, best-selling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't.
So, over the course of 12 months, he went on a journey to rediscover love. To get better. Not cured, not fixed. Just, better. This is a book about his journey to betterness, his year of living vulnerably. It's a book about love. What love is, how we see it, what forms it takes, how we practice it in our lives, what it means to us, and how we really, really can't live without it, even if, like Rick for many years, we think we can.
As he says: "People think they want cars - and they do, to get to jobs and appointments in cities and regions where public transport has failed them. But what gets them into those cars, out of the house, out of bed for God's sake, is love."
"Read this investigation because it will remind you of how optimism and love work together. Read it because your heart has been broken somewhere along the line and you need to know how to mend. Read this book because Rick Morton is the bloke we all need in our life to show us it is going to be okay." (Readings)
"Wryly comic, hard-thought and deeply-felt.... It is a heartbreaking book, but a beguiling and necessary one. And a work far wiser than the modesty of its author would allow." (The Saturday Paper)
"One of the many charms of Morton's seductively clever book is the treasure trove of scientific, philosophic, and literary observations, scattered throughout its pages, like beacons.... This is a significant book, to be read, dipped into, put aside and then revisited. Morton writes with grace, enlivened by vivid imagery and spontaneous wit." (The Canberra Times)
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-04-2021
amazing words.
I loved every minute and I cried when it was over. I'm sad that it's finished and I eagerly await his next words.
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- D.M.S.
- 17-04-2021
Excellent narration from the author
Rick Morton’s latest book is a feat of vulnerability, an ode to love (in all its forms), and somehow both deeply invested in unfolding the intricacies of human pain while very often being snort-out-loud funny. Definitely recommend this recording, too.
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- Jacob
- 14-08-2021
Ooh love
LOVE hurts, it makes my cry, it keeps me going. Finished the book in the first lockdown, in one day
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- KarlettaA
- 08-10-2022
Well worth it for me
Loved it. Did not know what to expect. Too much trauma? Not enough relief and enjoying life moments?
Nope. Did skip a bit or two. Beautiful storytelling.
Took a year to finish - in three sessions but - I've been off most of my fav genres for a few years now.
Beautiful. Thank you Rick.
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- Perry Duffin
- 24-03-2021
Essential
Each page is a mirror that left me nowhere to hide.
Required reading for anyone who wants to understand Australia and what it does particularly to its men.
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- Liane
- 31-07-2021
Entertaining, amusing, heartfelt, inspiring
Endearingly meandering at times. Being read by the Author makes it like hearing a deftly composed and compelling confessional or philosophical musing. I was engaged from beginning to end. Rick captures the impact of early life trauma with authenticity and a surprisingly light touch given the subject matter.
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- RAJN2001
- 07-06-2021
Props to you for sharing
Excellent dissertation on what means to live with vulnerability. Thank you for your courage Rick.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-04-2021
Funny and fascinating and moving
I never wanted this book to end. Beautifully written and read. I learned heaps! bravo.
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- Geraldine Butler
- 15-04-2021
An important book by a wonderful writer
Rick shares with us his struggles with complex PTSD with bravery, honesty and most of all, humour. He is a remarkable human being
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- Anonymous User
- 02-04-2021
fantastic
A brilliant book. an amazing journey, one which comforted me in my own journey. Thank you for being so honest. you are beautiful.
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