Emerging From The Forest: From Pain to Purpose

Despite being poor and from a broken home, carefree 8-year-old Paul is a happy and contented lad; that is until his mother marries The BEAST and then everything changes.

What he doesn't know, is how to handle the ensuing abuse, neglect and violence. The next 40-plus years of his life constantly flips from black, dark periods of addiction and chaos, followed by white, light bursts of progress. What a disaster and waste - will alcoholism keep him in its vice-like grip?

Paul wants to change ...