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A Clean Mess - Tiffany Jenkins

A Clean Mess

By Tiffany Jenkins

  • Release Date: 2025-06-03
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of High Achiever chronicles life after addiction—the raw, the dark, and the hilarious—from setting out with nothing but a backpack to discovering her marriage was built on a shakier foundation than she’d ever imagined to staying sober when life fell apart.

“Tiffany Jenkins illustrates that recovery is not just about sobriety, but about learning to live and feel again. Her compelling story is a testament to the power of resilience, humor, and hope.”—Sarah Levy, author of Drinking Games

A Clean Mess opens with the moment that changed everything. Tiffany is about to go on stage when she receives an odd message from her husband: “Hey Babe, some of the guys here are making some stupid decisions. Not me. But I just wanted to let you know in case you heard it from some of the other wives.” By the end of the night, Tiffany knew her life would never be the same.

This wasn’t the first time she had to start over. After the opioid addiction and jail sentence that she chronicled in her bestselling memoir, High Achiever, Tiffany was ready for a fresh start. A chance to try life again, this time without drugs coursing through her veins. In A Clean Mess, she takes us back to those early days of recovery, and the whirlwind that she entered the moment she was out of prison. In just two years, she went from inmate to married and sober mom of three.

Told with humor and honesty, A Clean Mess is Tiffany Jenkins’s story of how she learned to live and feel for the first time without numbing herself with drugs—and how she discovered inner reserves of strength she didn’t know she had. From her tentative first days of sobriety, to seeing two pink lines on a pregnancy test weeks later, to navigating anxiety, a new marriage, and motherhood at the same time, to surviving betrayal and divorce, Jenkins shows how she got through it all when her crutches and Band-Aids were taken away from her. An inspiring memoir that reads like fiction, A Clean Mess is a book that will buoy anyone seeking a life raft in hard times.

Reviews

  • ❤️❤️

    5
    By lucy0286
    Amazing!! Absolutely loved it…highly recommend…especially for a person in recovery or someone struggling to understand an addicts perspective and struggles…

  • Really Good Read

    5
    By K.Claeys
    Truth in all feelings put in this book totally relatable I loved reading it and could not put it down!

  • Maybe

    3
    By schoenbergersm
    I should have read the first book before this one.

  • I wanted to like it

    1
    By Amigo73
    but I couldn't. I chose to read this memoir because Tiffany Jenkins is a keynote speaker at an upcoming Women for Sobriety (WFS) 50th Anniversary Seminar. I'd never heard of her, but as a woman in recovery, if someone can make me laugh about our shared journey, i’m all for it. But I didn't laugh. I didn't feel amused. I felt disgusted. Who feels the need to share the intimate details of their first sexual encounter with their husband? That's when I discovered she was a blogger. Sharing intimate details with no filter is what she does. I don't get it, but Tiffany seems to have made a financial success of it. I've read many memoirs and recovery stories, this is one I cannot recommend. I wish I could. I wish the author well on her sober journey. I hope she got the revenge she wanted by painting the father of her children in such a negative light. It seems like 2 cases of arrested development. They both have a great deal of work and growing up to do, as evidenced in this book. I hope they do the work. If you are a woman in recovery, looking for inspiration, look elsewhere, please. There are way better resources available. If AA doesn't work for you, check out WFS for positive help and support. You won't find anything here except a roadmap of what not to do. I'm sorry to be so harsh, but I feel the need to be honest. Wasting $13.99 gives me that right. If you are following people and wasting time on various social media platforms, work on your own life with skilled professionals, but don't invest time and energy that can be better spent elsewhere, especially when your sobriety depends on it. This is no laughing matter!

  • Wow, just wow. So well written and raw. Thank you for sharing your story Tiffany!

    5
    By VaneG78
    See above

  • Every new mom should read

    5
    By MrsKris10Nerd
    Tiffany speaks about her addictions and overcoming them with honesty and humor but its her discussions around motherhood that hit home for me. To speak of PPD with frankness and openness is needed (especially in the current political climate) and Tiffany’s story has the potential to help so many new moms who are struggling. Great read!

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