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Confessions of an Addict: How I Faced My Addictions and Found a New Way to Live
Paperback
Biographies GeneralAddiction & Recovery
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if addiction isn't really about the thing you're addicted to-but about what you're trying to escape?
For most of his life, the author of Confessions of an Addict searched for ways to change how he felt.
It began with food at ten years old, when bullying and isolation made eating a source of comfort. Then came pornography and secrecy. Drugs offered another kind of escape. Alcohol brought confidence, freedom, and eventually consequences that threatened everything he cared about.
Different addictions. Different stages of life.
But underneath them was the same pattern:
Escape.
In Confessions of an Addict: How I Faced My Addictions and Found a New Way to Live, one man looks unflinchingly at a lifetime of addiction-from childhood coping mechanisms to methamphetamine, alcohol, pornography, relapse, rock bottoms, and ultimately recovery.
This isn't the story of someone who figured everything out.
It's the story of someone who finally stopped running long enough to ask why.
Blending deeply personal experiences with insights into addiction, trauma, habits, shame, identity, connection, and recovery, Confessions of an Addict explores not only what addiction can take from us, but what it may have been giving us in the first place: comfort, confidence, numbness, belonging, relief, or simply somewhere to hide.
Along the way, readers are invited to examine their own patterns through practical reflections and tools for understanding triggers, breaking shame cycles, building support systems, developing healthier habits, preparing for relapse risks, and creating an identity no longer centered around escape.
With more than seventeen years away from methamphetamine and over four years of sobriety from alcohol, the author doesn't present himself as a guru or promise a perfect formula for recovery. He writes as a husband, father, and recovering addict who is still learning who he is without the substances and behaviors that once defined him.
Raw, vulnerable, and ultimately hopeful, Confessions of an Addict is for anyone struggling with addiction, questioning their relationship with an addictive behavior, rebuilding a life in recovery, or trying to understand someone they love.
Because rock bottom doesn't have to be the end.
Sometimes it's simply the moment you decide:
I don't want to live like this anymore.
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