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Freedom From Self is written for the person who has spent years surviving, performing, and proving, and is now ready to ask the harder question: who are you without the armor?
Michael Brandon does not write from theory. He writes from collapse, consequence, and the long work of rebuilding a life from the inside out. That gives this book its edge: it is honest where most books stay abstract.
Letters to Lila was written in the aftermath of personal collapse, when the future was uncertain and the only left to protect was love itself. When writing became the only voice left.
These letters were not written as performance. They were written as a father’s attempt to leave something true behind for his daughter: what love means, what responsibility requires, and what faith looks like lived.
Author Bio
Michael didn't come to writing through a quiet life with room to reflect. He came to it through forty-two years of living at the edge.
From fifteen, he moved in and out of the system. Jail. Prison. Circumstances that would have broken most people, and nearly did. His first encounter with faith came inside a cell at eighteen — not a conversion, just a door left slightly open. He spent the next two decades slowly walking through it.
He thought he'd arrived somewhere safe at forty-two. He hadn't. His marriage collapsed. And in the wreckage came the loss that undid him most — losing daily life with his daughter, Lila.
It was inside that collapse that everything he writes about took shape. Not as comfort. As clarity.
Freedom From Self is what he found when he stopped performing. Letters to Lila is what remained when everything else was gone.
He is based in Greenville, North Carolina, writing, building, and refusing to quit.
The fight for more time with Lila is ongoing. Your support — however it comes — makes that fight possible and helps create resources for fathers everywhere facing the same battle.
It means more than you know.
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