
How to Breathe While Suffocating
A Story Of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing My Soul
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How to Breathe While Suffocating
A Story Of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing My Soul
About this book
Let go of negativity, rediscover your inherent worth, and unlock your true potential
How To Breathe While Suffocating is your antidote to the all-too-common tendency to surrender, giving up on your life's ambitions. You don't have to give up! For anyone who has gotten caught in the trap of "I can't do it," this book reminds you that you are enough, you possess value, and your unique ability to engage with the world can and will get you to where you want to be. Through simple positive affirmations, unflinching first-person stories, and insightful analysis, author Bruce W. Brackett helps you focus on the positive and keep moving forward.
Society today is experiencing a hidden pandemic of loneliness, disconnection, and resistance to recovery. After the life-altering shutdowns of COVID-19, many of us have simply remained in shutdown mode. This book uses universal concepts, expressed through engaging narrative, to help you grapple with issues like mental health, isolation, gender identity, disconnection, and the overwhelming sense of negativity for our collective future. By the end, you'll learn to turn it around and get back to the business of living. The message of How to Breathe When Suffocating is simple—spread love, inhabit joy, and embrace the power of positivity.
- Gain the inspiration you need to seize your potential, find confidence, and step into your authentic self
- Change your outlook on life with simple slogans and mantras for developing a healthier, more positive attitude
- Realize that you aren't alone in your struggle, and see how others are finding the strength to move forward in difficult times
- Read the compelling story of one man who overcame insurmountable odds and found salvation from negativity and self-doubt
After a two-decade healing journey of intensive trauma therapy, psychiatric treatment, and rehab, Bruce W. Brackett has emerged a survivor. Anyone in the midst of their own healing journey will resonate with benefit from his lived experience, portrayed here with intimate vulnerability and universal appeal.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Born into It and Removed from It
- 2 The Foster Family
- 3 It Takes a Village, for Pain or Glory
- 4 Bullies Be Gone!
- 5 Am I a Star? Meh, Same Difference
- 6 The Foot That Should Have Kicked Me
- 7 The Runaway
- 8 Journey to the Dream
- 9 Oklahoma City
- 10 Angels in Dallas
- 11 A Flight to Freedom
- 12 Boystown
- 13 Salt Lake City
- 14 Las Vegas, Do or Die
- 15 On My Way
- 16 The Diagnoses
- 17 Hurricane Bruce
- 18 Crystal in the Rain
- 19 Photo Gallery
- Epilogue
- Resource Guide for Help Hotlines
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index
- End User License Agreement