Love and Kisses from My Padded Cell by Ellie Katz is a self-motivation and spirituality book. I must say that I am very intrigued by the book with just reading the synopsis. I am not wrong; the book is perfect in every sense.

The author starts the book with a prologue of her background as a psychologist specializing in addictions and compulsions, the nature of addiction and how everyone could fall into this entrapment.

I like how the book has the variety of stories, it's not the same 10 character that has the same struggle. There is a guy with a dark past, there is someone who is very successful and there is a woman who has her own struggle while pregnant. I think its ironic how we tend to think about alcohol and drugs when it comes to the word of addictions. We actually forget a lot more thing; gambling, caffeine, bulimia and even OCD, they all could be an addiction.

Reading this book totally opened my eyes about a lot of things. There are a lot of people out there that is very unfortunate, they dont even have the chance to grow in a proper home whilst some just love the success and doesnt want to take the plunge. However, these are the stories of how each and every one of them tries to make their life better.

I believe that this book could change a lot of views; not everyone is as lucky as you to have a good family or a good surrounding, not everyone could hold their life together and not everyone will continue falling and succumb to addiction. There are a lot more stories out there that we have no idea about, a lot more struggles to get through but we as the society, tend to think the worst of them.

As for me, the most touching story in this book is about Faith. She is very troubled since the first introduction of her character. What broke my heart is when she said to Ellie that she thinks that she might never be normal again.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested to know more about addictions and the hard truth of their tale - 5 Stars Amazon