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How to Breathe While Suffocating

A Story Of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing My Soul

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97 of 97 copies available

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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      • Publisher's Weekly

        April 8, 2024
        Instagrammer Brackett debuts with a candid if occasionally overwrought account of his journey from abuse, addiction, and mental health struggles to self-acceptance. A self-described “crack baby” who was rushed into detox in his first moments on earth, Brackett and his four sisters endured neglect and abuse at the hands of their single mom (“The beatings had a repetitiveness, if nothing else”). While the children found stability with an adoptive family when Brackett was six, bullying from classmates who guessed that he was gay and his own “carnal fantasies” became sources of torture. The book’s whirlwind later chapters recount Brackett’s multiple attempts to run away from his Montana home; stints in Dallas and Oklahoma City, where he assumed false personas; the genesis of his crystal meth addiction and struggles with body dysmorphia; and his halfhearted stints in rehab before he hit rock bottom and was inspired to “do something positive” by spreading mental health awareness on social media. Brackett’s tenacity and willingness to recount the ugly episodes of his life inspire, though the narrative is weighed down by some heavy-handed symbolism, as when he describes the moment he destroyed his crystal meth pipe and torch in an effort to get sober: “I grabbed the rock and began to crush... these tools of demise,” after which it began to rain, “like a cleansing acknowledgement from the heavens.” Still, it’s an affecting ode to the power of perseverance and second chances.

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