BROKEN BUT BREATHING
A memoir and recovery workbook by Eric Sanders

This is not a polished redemption story. It is the truth about addiction, relapse, shame, survival-and what it takes to rebuild a life after you have spent years believing you were permanently damaged.

In Broken But Breathing, Eric Sanders confronts the identity he formed around trauma, incarceration, addiction, divorce, and failure. He exposes the lies that kept him stuck-including the belief that the damage was who he was.

The central truth: Identity is the drug.

Part memoir and part practical recovery workbook, this book combines raw personal stories with guided exercises designed to help readers:

• Separate their identity from their past
• Recognize hidden and functional relapse patterns
• Confront guilt and shame without being consumed by them
• Move from survival mode into a safer, more stable life
• Rewrite the verdict they have carried about themselves
• Build an identity that supports recovery instead of sabotage

This book is for anyone who has relapsed, lost years, hurt people, been written off-or wondered whether they waited too long to change.

You are not required to pretend the damage never happened. You are allowed to admit that you are broken-and still recognize that you are breathing.

Raw. Honest. Practical. No toxic positivity.