Still Standing-What nobody has the courage to tell you about coming home

You walked out of those gates and you still felt like you were doing time.

Nobody warned you about that part. The yard ended. The sentence didn't. It just moved into your head and set up shop there.

Still Standing is the manifesto for the part of reentry nobody puts in the pamphlet — the part where you got out, you tried, you failed, you tried again, and somewhere in there you started to wonder if the system was right about you.

It wasn't. But you been carrying its voice in your chest for years and calling it yours.

12 chapters. 41 pages. Written by somebody who got out, relapsed, went to rehab, and didn't get it together until twelve years later. Not the clean redemption story. The real one.

If you been waiting on permission to be proud you're still here, stop waiting. Nobody's coming with it. You been pre-approved this whole time and didn't know it.

Pick the book up. Or put the story down. Either way, quit standing in the doorway.