Brick by Brick

Building Progress, One Brick at a Time.

If you've been told to "just update the resume" or "just practice the interview" while you're navigating early recovery, you already know how badly that advice misses the point.

The work part of life and the wellness part of life are usually the same problem. Decisions about your career are decisions about your recovery, dressed in different clothes.

Brick by Brick is the conversation about it. Ten chapters, three weeks of reading, walked through composite characters figuring out the specific questions: going back to old work or starting over, the disclosure conversation, the daily work, what to do if a slip happens, the goal-setting practice that holds everything else together.

It does not tell you which door to walk through. It walks alongside you while you ask.

READERS WILL LEARN:

• How to know whether to go back to your old work or start over - and the Three Tests that hold that decision together
• How to handle the disclosure conversation honestly without over-apologizing
• The four-part frame for whole-person interview presence - Mirror, Bridge, Story, Boundary
• When education or training is the right move, and when it isn't
• How to do the daily work of showing up consistently at a new job in early recovery
• What to do if a slip happens - and where to find free legal aid for the protections that exist
• How to turn a goal from a wish into a real plan using the WOOP framework