Dark to Light

By Dean Ingram

"...Alone (again) on my boat with an enormous amount
of cocaine, I fully intended to explode my heart. Cutting
fat lines sure to end my addiction misery, an unrelenting voice in
my head urgently insisted that I "write this down!".
Finally giving in, I found a pen and began. My hand
would not stop writing. What spilled out onto that paper
astounded me to such a degree that I threw the cocaine
overboard. Alive and 20 years later, those very words
begin Chapter 1 in my book "Dark to Light".

As a teaching tool, I share many tough lessons including
how reality is perceived and justified in an addicts
broken brain, discovering the one word that was my life
ring, 12 Step based solutions for the pain and problems
of addiction and a very short sentence that can open the
door to recovery...."

Dark to Light is a captivating emotional experience and
an astounding exercise in honesty and courage. In Chapters
2 and 3, Dean offers realistic hope to those scared to death,
desperately struggling for a life of recovery, sobriety,
strength and freedom from the beast
called Addiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dean Ingram
• Release date: Dec 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311890771

Dean Ingram

Addiction is a beast. It's a lifestyle that is rarely understood except by those who have experienced the darkest throes of its hopeless destruction "Dark to Light" is dedicated to readers and their loved ones whose lives are or have been touched in any way by alcohol and drug addiction. This book is not written by any psychologist, doctors or sponsored by a rehab facility or a recovery program. It is written by a guy who started drinking at the age of 12. Over the next 43 years of his alcohol and drug addiction, he experienced multiple hospital stays, clinical depression, mental breakdowns, attempted suicides, rehabs, recovery programs, divorces and earned fortunes only to squander them away. Meet Dean Ingram: "This book is about the darkest time of my life. A complete and total breakdown of my mind, my body, my emotions, my heart and everything I held dear. Taking my own life at that time seemed to me a good idea! This is the earmark of a terribly broken brain." "Dark to Light" captures an intimate, deeply personal battle with alcohol and cocaine addiction which led the author to a profoundly creative avenue to document his emotionally charged turbulence - through poignant poetry and verse. Dean reveals the gritty barefaced truth of addiction, his courageous climb out of the rabbit hole of drugs and alcohol and his hard fought transformation to the man he is today. With raw honesty, Dean offers realistic hope to those desperately struggling for a life of recovery, sobriety, strength and freedom from the beast.

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