Recovering
By Richie Sadlier and Dion Fanning
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When a career-ending injury saw former Ireland and Millwall striker Richie Sadlier retire from football at age 24, his life spiralled out of control.
Without structure or a sense of purpose, and fuelled by a dependency on alcohol, he spent years running from the dark memories and feelings that had haunted him since childhood. Until one day he hit rock bottom and decided to confront his demons.
Recovering written with Dion Fanning is about a life shaped by efforts to escape, and how it is possible to rebuild that life, piece by piece, with the right help.
Inspiring and ground-breaking, it is an important reflection on the need to move away from perceptions of shame in our discussions about mental health, sex, relationships and addiction.
Richie Sadlier
Richie Sadlier is an accredited psychotherapist with a passion for supporting adolescent development. A former professional footballer, Richie now runs his own private psychotherapy practice. He is also widely known as an RTÉ football pundit and for presenting The Player’s Chair podcast on the Second Captains podcast platform. Richie has created modules in sexual health and mental fitness, which he delivered to the Transition Year students of St Benildus College, Dublin, from 2014 to 2019. In collaboration with psychologist Elaine Byrnes, he created an online sexual health course for senior cycle students, which was launched in 2021. Richie regularly contributes to RTÉ television and radio on issues relating to young people. His bestselling memoir, Recovering, won the An Post Irish Sports Book of the Year award in 2019.
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