Reimagining Rebellion: The Book I've Been Building Toward (Out July 24)
Quitting wasn't the end of anything. It was the beginning of everything.
If you came in through Soul Recovery, you already know that this isn’t just about what you quit.
This is the book that names what you came home to.
Reimagining Rebellion: A Rebel’s Guide to Coming Alive in a System That’s Crushing You is out July 24, 2026. It’s the fourth book, and it’s the one the others were quietly building toward — because Soul Recovery was never about alcohol. It was about what happens when a soul refuses to keep abandoning itself.
This book is what that soul does next.
Here’s the distinction the whole book runs on: adaptation vs. aliveness.
You were taught the first one. You’ve been rewarded for it your whole life. And it has been quietly killing you.
This isn’t a wellness book. It’s not a self-help book. It’s not a recovery book. It’s a field guide for the part of you that’s been telling you, for years, that something is wrong — not with you, but with the rules you’ve been keeping. The book takes that knowing seriously. It walks you through what’s been costing you to hold the rules in place, what you actually want underneath them, and what becomes possible when you stop performing a life and start living one.
It’s built around Pink Floyd’s catalog — not as decoration, but as a spine. Every chapter has a song, a question, and a council of voices (Hoffer, Seneca, van der Kolk, Maté, Jung, Becker, Emerson, Erhard, Campbell) brought into conversation around the song’s truth. Soul Recovery — the doorway you just walked through — is Chapter 6. The Bridge.
Walking it with me, starting June 1.
The full launch happens here on Substack between June 1 and July 24. Preface first. Then the Introduction. Then chapter-by-chapter — the questions, the song, the distinction, the costs. By the time the book lands, you’ll already know whether it’s the one you’ve been waiting for.
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— Gary
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