About

Anna David is the New York Times and #1 Amazon bestselling author of two novels and six non-fiction books about addiction, recovery and relationships. She’s been published in The New York Times, Time, The LA Times, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Vice, Cosmo, People, Marie Claire, Redbook, Esquire, Self, Women’s Health, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Salon among many others, written about in numerous publications, including Forbes, Martha Stewart Living, Entrepreneur, Allure and Women’s Health and has appeared repeatedly on The Today Show, Hannity, Attack of the Show, Dr. Drew, Red Eye, The Talk, The CBS Morning Show, The Insider and numerous other programs on Fox News, NBC, CBS, MTV, VH1 and E. She speaks at colleges across the country about relationships, addiction and recovery, has been a featured speaker at three different TedX events and has shared the stage with Tony Robbins. Through her company, Launch Pad Publishing, she helps those with stories to share to write and publish their books. Launch Pad also offers retreats, online courses, a podcast and a storytelling show.

ARTICLES:
 
How This NY Times Best-Selling Author Is Shifting The Addiction Narrative With Artful Storytelling
 
Bestselling Author In Recovery Helps A New Generation Of Recovery Writers Tell Their Stories
 
You Could Be Building an Empire Without Even Realizing It

PAST NACA SHOWCASING ARTIST
Ask about adding a complimentary book signing to your event!
Click here to see Anna's new ​virtual programs tailored to our times.

popular programs

WHAT A BOOK CAN DO FOR YOUR CAREER—AND YOUR LIFE
Everyone who's successful in business is looking for a leg up. And anyone in that situation who hasn't published a book has done him or herself a disservice. Anna David learned this firsthand. After struggling with addiction and finding sobriety, she wrote a book about her experiences—and suddenly found herself appearing multiple times on shows like Today and The Talk as an expert on addiction.
That's not only when she realized that books are the new college degrees but that sharing about her most personal experiences brought her freedom she'd never imagined possible.
In this keynote that delves into what anyone who wants to write a book needs to do in order to have a hit, David brings an insider's knowledge to the publishing experience—and explains how people can find both their readers and themselves.

HOW TO WEAR YOUR LABELS
Many argue that the word “addict” is offensive; they say that labels keep people from achieving what they’re meant to and stigmatize those who would thrive if they weren’t being penalized by some pejorative identity. In this presentation, Anna David explains why she disagrees and how she believes that it’s only through using the addict label that we can destigmatize addiction. She argues that we shouldn’t be trying to avoid certain words but bringing them out in the open so that we can change the public perception of them. She explains how she believes labels can help us to thrive.

Attendees will be able to evaluate and discuss if the recommendation to not use the word addict—including the recent AP suggestion that journalists use the phrase “person with addiction” instead—helps or hurts the cause. 

They’ll be able to compare her argument about the benefits of using the word “addict” to the many arguments people make that we must eradicate the word from our vocabulary altogether—and see the potential pitfalls of that philosophy.
 
In this entertaining talk that takes the opposite tact of all other talks about labels, audiences will be able to examine their own labels and share them with the world, in turn giving other people who may be struggling permission to do the same. (Time: 30 minutes-1 hour; recommended time: 45 minutes).

Why It’s More Important Than Ever to Think Before You Drink
45 minutes + Q&A

Alcohol sales have increased 54% since shelter-in-place started—the highest spike in 15 years. To Anna David, that’s not surprising. 

David—sober almost 20 years after becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol—knows that one of the greatest contributors to alcoholism is isolation. After all, she spent the two years before she found sobriety by herself in her apartment doing cocaine and considering suicide. 

And that’s not the only role alcohol plays in isolation. A 2015 NIH study showed that early social isolation—in short, depriving rats from social play—increased the risk for addictive behavior. The study concluded that isolation, during a developmental period when social play is crucial, “enhances the propensity to consume alcohol in adulthood.” 

Make no mistake: college students, no matter how mature, are still developing since the brain isn’t fully formed until the mid-20s. Given what the studies prove and science shows, it’s therefore not only possible but likely that the isolation we’re experiencing now will produce more alcoholics than ever before. 

And yet quarantine provides just as many opportunities for healthy behavior as unhealthy. Exercise classes are streaming around the clock. Experts are encouraging us to get outdoors. And home cooking, now that we can’t go to restaurants, has increased exponentially.

In this encouraging and truthful talk, David examines why thinking before you drink is more relevant than ever and how it’s possible, with a few simple tips, to come out of this period of isolation stronger and healthier.

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Media is atwitter with stories of celebrity party girls and yet not a soul seems to understand what the lives of these young women are truly like. Well, here it is. Anna David has provided us with the real deal. A roller coaster read that transports us in to the world of the Party Girl. Once emblematic for feminine machismo and independence, the party girl of today is in fact a human being with an illness. At once uproarious and poignant, Anna David’s portrayal of the experience of addiction and nuances of recovery is the most accurate I have come across.

Dr. Drew Pinsky, addiction expert, host of Loveline, star of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew

MORE REVIEWS

Title
/
Bestselling Author of Permanent Midnight and I, Fatty

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Want to talk with us about Anna David?