Broken But Breathing

Broken But Breathing is Eric Lee Sanders' memoir on addiction, incarceration, relapse, trauma, and the identities people build to survive. It rejects the polished redemption arc in favor of something harder to sell and closer to true: staying alive long enough to tell the truth and change the verdict.

It's the lived-experience foundation this Institute is built on — part memoir, part practical groundwork for the identity-centered approach.