{"product_id":"building-life-after-the-burn-restoring-identity-function-and-hope-after-substance-use-9798903455683","title":"Building Life after the Burn: Restoring Identity, Function, and Hope after Substance Use","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aaron B. Kershaw | Billye J. Jones | Lori-Ellen Pisani\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Buildingblocs Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Buildingblocs Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Substance Abuse \u0026amp; Addictions - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding Life After the Burn: Restoring Identity, Function, and Hope After Substance Use is the second book in the groundbreaking Used to Survive series. If Why You Used explained why addiction wasn't a failure but a survival strategy, Book 2 tackles the harder question: who are you after the fire?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSobriety doesn't hand you your old life back-it burns it down. The substances are gone, but so are the roles, masks, and rhythms you once lived by. What's left feels raw, unfinished, and frightening. This stage is where many relapse-not because they want the high, but because they miss the person they thought they were while using.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In corrections and behavioral health, what undoes people isn't detox-it's the emptiness that follows. Building Life After the Burn tells the truth about that void, reframes numbness as part of healing, and gives practical tools to rebuild identity brick by brick.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Brian Wall, LPC-S, LAC, Division Director, Men's Residential Behavioral Health Services, South Carolina Department of Corrections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for that space. The gray zone. The hollow mornings. The moments when peace feels like panic and stillness feels unsafe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a blend of lived experience (Uncle Aaron's blunt and honest check-ins), body-and-brain science (Nurse C's Notes), and trauma-informed psychology (Dr. Jones' Advisory), you'll find tools, stories, and exercises that make sense of the chaos and guide you into a life worth keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, you'll learn how to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFace the numbness and emotional flatness of early recovery (it's not failure, it's recalibration).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrieve the \"survival self\" without resurrecting the old chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShow up fragile, awkward, and unready-and build strength anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLive with guilt without collapsing into shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebuild trust with others-and with yourself-brick by brick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTolerate peace and stability without sabotaging it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet good things stay, even when your brain screams you don't deserve them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStitch together all the tools into your personal Burn Recovery Map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isn't about perfection. It's about building after the burn. Because recovery isn't just the absence of drugs. It's the presence of self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buildingblocs Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883743428759,"sku":"9798903455683","price":2074.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798903455683.webp?v=1781103701","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/building-life-after-the-burn-restoring-identity-function-and-hope-after-substance-use-9798903455683","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}