Coming Early Spring 🌱

There comes a moment when survival is no longer enough.

A moment when you realize that pushing through pain without healing it is costing you more than it’s saving you.

Enough Is Enough: I Won’t Be a Statistic, my forthcoming memoir releasing in early spring, was born from that moment.

Why This Book Matters

Enough Is Enough: I Won’t Be a Statistic lives at the intersection of faith, trauma, mental health, addiction recovery, justice involvement, and purpose-driven living—spaces too often treated in isolation. It offers representation to those who feel unseen by traditional recovery narratives and misunderstood in faith spaces.

This Is Not a Story of Sudden Collapse

One of the most dangerous myths we tell ourselves is that breakdown happens overnight. It doesn’t.

In the early sections of the book, I take readers back to the foundations—long before addiction, incarceration, or visible crisis entered the picture. Childhood trauma without language. Emotional insecurity that learned to hide behind achievement. Spiritual formation mixed with silence around mental health. Survival strategies that looked productive on the outside but were quietly eroding me from within.

Overfunctioning. Overachieving. Avoidance.

These weren’t flaws—they were adaptations. But when left unexamined, survival becomes a liability.

When Survival Turns Into Self-Destruction

The middle of the book names what many people feel but struggle to articulate:

Addiction didn’t appear because I was reckless. It appeared because pain wanted control.

In this part, the story descends—not into chaos for chaos’ sake, but into clarity. Addiction is framed not as a moral failure, but as a false savior that promised relief and delivered devastation. The narrative crescendos with a moment that nearly cost me my life, forcing a reckoning where denial and truth could no longer coexist.

Confinement Was the Pause I Couldn’t Avoid

Jail was not redemption.

But it was the first place I stopped running.

Inside a 9x12 cell, stripped of performance, distraction, and control, something unexpected happened: surrender began. I explore incarceration honestly—its failures, its harms, and the rare moments where dignity, faith, and accountability intersect. Healing didn’t arrive dramatically. It arrived deliberately, through a decision to stop hiding and allow change to do its slow work.

Healing Is a Process, Not a Miracle

One of the most important sections of this book confronts a gap I lived in for years:

being spiritually devoted but psychologically unsupported.

In The Work of Healing, I speak openly about trauma responses, emotional dysregulation, overthinking, therapy, evidence-based practices, and the role faith played alongside—not instead of—mental health care. This book gives language to readers who were told to pray harder when what they needed was understanding, tools, and support.

God never failed me.

But the systems around me sometimes did.

This book makes room for both truths.

Purpose Wasn’t Found — It Was Reclaimed

The later chapters shift from survival to service. Not platform, not polish—but proximity.

Recovery became public not through perfection, but through presence. Peer recovery work, advocacy, storytelling—these weren’t career pivots; they were the natural extension of healing that refused to stay silent. Purpose is reframed as responsibility: using voice wisely, walking alongside others, and allowing wounds to become roadmaps instead of secrets.

An Invitation, Not an Ending

The final pages turn outward.

This is where memoir becomes invitation—not preaching, not answers neatly tied—but a reminder that freedom is internal, renewed daily, and never out of reach. Enough is enough is not defiance against the past; it is a commitment to the future.

You will see yourself in these pages—

If you’ve survived more than you’ve healed—

If you’ve carried shame you couldn’t name—

If you’ve wondered whether your story could mean more than pain—

✨ Available early spring. Stay tuned for release details, pre-orders, and companion content.