About a year ago I began a journey down a very unfamiliar and scary road. A road that took me through some dark places and pushed me to confront some painful memories. Along the way, I visited my childhood and my first few experiences with drugs and alcohol. I stopped for a good stay around the height of my addiction, but spent the majority of the time celebrating and rejoicing in the hope and happiness that has become my new life in recovery.
This journey ended a few months ago and today I am thrilled to announce that the book chronicling my journey is now available. Hope is Alive (One addicts story of hope), will be officially released on April 17, but you can pick it up now on Amazon or order it directly from me.
As a lead up to the official release, over the next three weeks I will be sharing highlights from each chapter here on the blog.
One more thing, in hopes of raising awareness for the book and informing the public on the plague of addiction this country is facing. I am scheduling speaking events this summer at churches and events across Oklahoma (and beyond I suppose). With that said I’d be honored to come and share my story of hope with your church, Men’s group, Life group, organization or business. God’s gifted me with a story and its my job to tell it.
Shoot me an email if you are interested. ([email protected])
Sneak Peek #1 – Introduction….
For so many years I lived with no hope, no expectation my life would ever get better. My hope was dead, and along with it, any desire for a better life. For a decade I snorted or smoked everything I could get my hands on; an endless search for the rush of the first time propelled me to destroy and damage everything in my path. With fear as my empty motivator, I pointed the finger outward, blaming others for what my life had become. I was left feeling alone, stranded, different, and ultimately confused.
So I gave up.
“Screw it,” I said. “Let’s just do this.”
So I did. Nothing else seemed to fix the problem, so I ramped up my pill intake to a near-lethal level and resigned myself to the idea that this desperate, reclusive state would be my life forever—at least until it killed me.
Thank God it didn’t.
I grew up in a glass house, open seemingly for the whole world to see. Each disappointment and defeat pushed me farther and farther along my dark journey. I had absolutely no control, no hope, and no future outside of a daily purposeful pursuit to get high. But hope surfaced, and has driven me to a freedom and satisfaction I had previously assumed were unattainable.
This book is the story of how my hope departed, how it was restored, and how I’ve kept it alive. I wrote it for drug addicts, alcoholics, gamblers, sex addicts, hurt people, prideful people, and angry people. I wrote it for the fear-ridden, the guilty, the insecure, the obsessed, the perpetually disappointed, and anyone else caught in the tornado of destruction that is addiction.
I wrote it for those without hope, so they can know beyond a doubt that hope is alive.
To order the book, just follow this link – HOPE is ALIVE!
