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Up in smoke...a life?
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 18 2023
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What the hell really goes on inside an addict's mind?
It's not simply hate.
It's not just anger, regret, guilt or shame.
Sometimes it's all of those things-and a thousand conflicting emotions happening at once.
Up in Smoke...A Life? is a raw and intimate collection of poetry drawn from the author's own journey through addiction and recovery.
These poems take you inside the emotional world behind addiction: the highs, the lows, the escape, the chaos, the isolation, the self-destruction, the guilt, the shame, the pain-and the fight to find a way back.
These aren't observations from someone looking in from the outside.
They're words from inside the storm.
Through powerful, honest and sometimes confronting poetry, the author explores the emotional rollercoaster of addiction and the difficult road toward recovery.
There are poems about darkness and despair.
Poems about loss and regret.
Poems about relapse, struggle and self-reflection.
But there are also poems about courage, resilience, hope and the possibility of healing.
Because addiction is never just one emotion.
And recovery is never just one moment.
Up in Smoke...A Life? is for anyone who has experienced addiction personally, anyone walking the path of recovery, anyone who has experienced relapse, and anyone who has loved someone struggling with substance abuse.
It is also for readers who want to understand what addiction can feel like from the inside-the thoughts, contradictions, pain and emotions that may remain hidden behind the addiction itself.
This is not a clinical explanation of addiction.
It is not a textbook.
It is a collection of lived emotion, expressed through poetry.
Raw. Honest. Unfiltered.
A journey through addiction, loss, recovery, hope and the search for a way back to the light.
Sometimes the words we cannot say are the words someone else has already written.
Up in Smoke...A Life?
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