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Breaking the Cycle: Healing from Alcohol, Drugs, and Trauma - Without Shame
Paperback
Series: Becoming Light in Darkness Journey
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ISBN13: 9798242250543
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Breaking the Cycle is not a motivational book.
It is a reckoning.
Written from lived experience, this trauma-informed recovery book exposes how alcohol and drugs often begin as survival tools-and quietly evolve into forces that dismantle families, futures, and identity.
Through unfiltered personal testimony, neuroscience, psychology, and social truth, Michael Igomokelo examines:
It is a reckoning.
Written from lived experience, this trauma-informed recovery book exposes how alcohol and drugs often begin as survival tools-and quietly evolve into forces that dismantle families, futures, and identity.
Through unfiltered personal testimony, neuroscience, psychology, and social truth, Michael Igomokelo examines:
- why addiction is rooted in trauma, not weakness
- how shame fails and urgency saves lives
- the hidden damage of functional addiction
- how alcohol and drugs fuel family breakdown and community violence
- what real recovery looks like-daily, imperfect, and human
It asks you to tell the truth before almost becomes irreversible.
For anyone who has tried to quit and failed, for those still functioning but hollow, and for families watching someone disappear-Breaking the Cycle offers clarity, accountability, and a path forward that does not rely on guilt.
You don't have to lose everything to justify stopping.
You only have to recognize what you're about to lose. This book was not written to replace Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps, therapy, medication, faith, or any other recovery path that helps people stay alive and sober.
It was written because many people are still dying inside those systems-not because the systems are wrong, but because the language they use does not always reach trauma, nervous-system injury, generational pain, or modern addiction realities.
This book exists alongside recovery programs, not above them.
It is written for:
I am not a preacher offering moral correction.
I am not a motivational speaker selling hope.
I am someone who nearly lost everything I loved to alcohol and trauma-and decided to stop before almost became irreversible.
This book does not excuse harm.
It does not deny responsibility.
It does not promise comfort.
What it offers is clarity, urgency, and a path forward that does not rely on shame as fuel.
If you are looking for an easy read, this book is not for you.
If you are looking for honesty, accountability, and the courage to stay present-this book was written with you in mind.
Use what helps you.
Leave what doesn't.
But do not mistake discomfort for danger.
Healing requires truth.
For anyone who has tried to quit and failed, for those still functioning but hollow, and for families watching someone disappear-Breaking the Cycle offers clarity, accountability, and a path forward that does not rely on guilt.
You don't have to lose everything to justify stopping.
You only have to recognize what you're about to lose. This book was not written to replace Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps, therapy, medication, faith, or any other recovery path that helps people stay alive and sober.
It was written because many people are still dying inside those systems-not because the systems are wrong, but because the language they use does not always reach trauma, nervous-system injury, generational pain, or modern addiction realities.
This book exists alongside recovery programs, not above them.
It is written for:
- the person who keeps relapsing and doesn't understand why
- the person who functions well enough to hide their addiction
- the person whose drinking began as survival, not rebellion
- the person who feels ashamed for needing relief
- the person who believes it's already too late
I am not a preacher offering moral correction.
I am not a motivational speaker selling hope.
I am someone who nearly lost everything I loved to alcohol and trauma-and decided to stop before almost became irreversible.
This book does not excuse harm.
It does not deny responsibility.
It does not promise comfort.
What it offers is clarity, urgency, and a path forward that does not rely on shame as fuel.
If you are looking for an easy read, this book is not for you.
If you are looking for honesty, accountability, and the courage to stay present-this book was written with you in mind.
Use what helps you.
Leave what doesn't.
But do not mistake discomfort for danger.
Healing requires truth.
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