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Broken Enough
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Publisher: Don Fisher
Published: Mar 27 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In July 2016, Don Fisher made the most devastating decision of his life. He stood in a hospital room and took his twin brother Dan off life support. The toxicology report said opioids, meth, Percocet. The truth said something harder: Dan was never ready.
Not broken, Dan had been broken for years. But ready is different. Ready is the internal shift that happens when you finally hate who you've become more than you fear the work of changing. When you stop making excuses and start facing what's real. Dan never got there. And no amount of love, intervention, or desperation from the people around him could make him ready before it was too late.
Don has spent thirty-five years in manufacturing, hiring people most employers won't touch, men and women with felony records, fresh out of halfway houses, carrying the weight of every bridge they'd burned. He's currently a Vice President at a nonprofit providing skills training and life transformation for men coming out of addiction, incarceration, and homelessness. He's seen recovery up close, in its ugliest and most honest forms. He's watched people change. He's watched people relapse on day ninety-one after ninety days clean. He's watched people build lives worth protecting, and he's watched people throw away every opportunity handed to them.
And here's what he's learned: the programs don't fail people. The promises do.
Broken Enough: An Honest Approach to Self-Recovery is not that kind of book.
This book will not cure you. It will not promise freedom in five steps, enlightenment in ten days, or a transformation that sticks if you just believe hard enough. Those promises are garbage, and if you've been around long enough, you already know it.
What this book will give you is the truth - and then the tools.
The truth is this: addiction, depression, and the patterns that destroy lives are permanent conditions to be managed, not diseases to be cured. Recovery is not a destination. It is a daily practice. The psychiatrist who told Don he had never cured a single patient in his career wasn't confessing failure, he was telling the truth that most of the industry won't say out loud. The goal isn't fixed. The goal is functional. And functional, managed well, is enough to build a real life.
Broken Enough walks through sixteen chapters of practical, no-nonsense guidance covering the full arc of recovery: understanding what readiness actually looks like, identifying triggers and patterns before they own you, navigating the relapse mindset, rebuilding from Day One, and Day One again, and managing the long game of a permanent condition. It addresses faith not as a magic cure, but as a genuine tool available to those willing to pick it up. It addresses the people around you: how to deal with them, how to protect your progress, how to help others without losing yourself in the process.
This book was written because Don Fisher is tired of watching good people die waiting for a miracle that isn't coming. He's tired of recovery programs that blame the person when the promise fails. He's tired of self-help books that sell hope without honesty, that make recovery sound like a journey to enlightenment instead of the daily grind of managing a condition that never fully goes away.
He wrote this book for the person who's tried everything. Who's done the steps, read the books, sat in the circles, and is still fighting. He wrote it for the families watching someone they love disappear. And he wrote it for Dan, because maybe these words reach someone before it's too late.
If you're broken enough, desperate enough, tired enough of who you've become, this book is for you. Not to fix you. Not to promise you anything. But to hand you a set of tools and step back.
What you build with them is up to you.
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