A Self Help Book for Men After Prison: A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Over (Self Help Books) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798306144153

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

This book isn't about inspirational quotes or feel-good platitudes. It's a realistic, step-by-step guide for men rebuilding their lives after prison. Housing, work, self-respect, family trust, and staying free. It covers the things other books skip because they're too uncomfortable to talk about.

Written in large print for easy reading after long shifts or on tough days, this book walks you through the practical realities of starting over. How to find housing that accepts your background. How to address your record in a job interview and keep the job through reliability. How to spot your anger triggers before they cost you everything. How to rebuild trust with family through actions instead of empty apologies. And how to move from just surviving day to day into building a real five-year plan for stability and security. It also faces the hard stuff head-on: regret, flashbacks, family distrust, and the loneliness that comes with proving yourself to a world that already made up its mind about you.

What's inside:

• Managing anger and triggers: how to spot what sets you off and stay calm in arguments, job interviews, and high-pressure moments
• Housing on a tight budget: finding rooms and landlords that accept your past, and budgeting for deposits when you're starting from nothing
• Getting and keeping work: how to address your record with confidence, pass background checks, and build a reputation through showing up every day
• Repairing family relationships: rebuilding trust through actions, setting boundaries that hold, and dealing with the distrust you'll face from people you hurt
• Building a future: turning daily survival into a five-year plan, handling regret and flashbacks, and making freedom stick for good

Reader review:
"This book kept me from going back. The chapter on anger triggers was the first thing that actually made sense to me, and the housing section saved me weeks of dead ends. It doesn't sugarcoat anything. It just tells you what to do next, step by step. I wish someone had handed me this the day I walked out." James R.

Starting over after prison is one of the hardest things a person can do, and most of the world isn't rooting for you. This book is. Large print edition, plain language, and real steps for building a life that stays free.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798306144153
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Number of pages: 201