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No One Is Normal: Breaking Free from Normal: Short Stories of Struggle, Adversity, and Self-Discovery
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $27.99
Publisher: Brad H. Hill Publishing
Published: Nov 16 2025
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Honestly, one of the most connecting books I have ever read. Relatable and honest words. It's healing.
- LibraryThing Early Reviewer
I saw myself in so much of what he wrote. It gave me things to think about through a deeply personal account.
- LibraryThing Early Reviewer
I loved it. I'm going to read it again because there is so much I want to highlight.
- LibraryThing Early Reviewer
What if the stories you spent a lifetime hiding were the ones that could finally set you free?
No One Is Normal is not a self-help book and it is not a memoir.
It is a reflective narrative built through real-life experiences and guided reflection, designed to move beyond passive reading and into personal examination.
Each chapter tells a story, then turns it back on the reader through reflection and questions.
This is not about being told what to do.
It is about being forced to look at your own life, your patterns, and your choices.
This book explores what happens when trauma follows you into adulthood, when coping becomes survival, and when life eventually forces a decision:
Keep repeating the same cycles
Or finally change.
Brad shares lessons shaped by childhood dysfunction, early responsibility, addiction, relationships, loss, burnout, and the long process of rebuilding a life with honesty, discipline, and self-respect.
But this is not a book about his life.
It is a book about what his life revealed.
A defining section of this book is told through the voice of Bonnie.
A survivor of domestic abuse, her story adds a second layer of truth, strength, and perspective.
This is not a side story.
It is a raw and unfiltered account of survival, leaving, and rebuilding when staying is no longer an option.
This book is about what happens after the damage is done.
The rebuilding.
The accountability.
The recovery.
And the difficult work of learning how to forgive yourself, forgive others, and stop letting the past control what comes next.
Inside this book:
- A direct look at trauma, identity, coping, and recovery
- Honest insight into addiction and the decision to change
- Real-life lessons from work, relationships, and personal failure
- The impact of domestic abuse and the strength required to rebuild
- Reflection prompts to examine your own experiences
- A grounded perspective on healing as a daily choice
- The reality that growth does not happen alone
Brad writes the way people speak when they stop pretending.
There is no polished version of life here.
Only truth.
If you have struggled with identity, relationships, addiction, survival, forgiveness, or feeling out of place in your own life, this book will meet you there.
No one is normal.
Every person wants to be understood.
Content note: This book includes themes of domestic abuse, substance abuse, trauma, and recovery.
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