I Believe In You: A Fathers Journey From Daily Drinker To Redefining Himself
Paperback
Biographies GeneralAddiction & RecoverySelf-Help
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781066718085
Publisher: Karl Elliott
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You already know something has to change. You just don't know if you're capable of it. That was Karl Elliott. A working-class lad from Yorkshire, drinking twelve to fifteen pints a day, holding down a job, keeping up appearances, and quietly falling apart on the inside. Not dramatic enough to call it rock bottom. Not okay enough to carry on. This is the story of what happened when he finally stopped. I Believe In You is a raw, honest account of one man's journey from daily drinking to rebuilding his entire life from scratch. Karl left school at fifteen without a single GCSE. He worked as a lorry driver. He drank through relationships, through baby loss, through the breakdown of friendships, through debt and depression - and still convinced himself he didn't have a problem, because he never missed a day of work. In June 2016, he put the drink down. What followed wasn't a straight road. It was grief, growth, failure, love, a proposal on his knees in Istanbul, twin daughters born during a pandemic, a wife diagnosed with lung cancer, and the slow, hard work of becoming the man he always had the potential to be. Karl doesn't write like a therapist. He writes like a man who has lived it - the shame, the chaos, the false starts, and eventually the life he never thought he deserved. He shares not just what he did, but how it felt. Because that's what actually helps. If you are questioning your relationship with alcohol, this book will show you what's possible. If you've already stopped and are still trying to figure out who you are on the other side, Karl's journey will remind you that the rebuilding is the point and know that it's never too late to start. You only get one life. This is proof that you can still turn it into something extraordinary. I Believe In You. Karl Elliott does. And by the end of this book, you might just start to as well.
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