Overview
I spent five years in the French Foreign Legion. I left with discipline, a white kepi, and no civilian skills anyone wanted to hire.
What followed: a failed technical degree at 25, months without heating in a Bordeaux apartment, a salary negotiation where my manager told me I should be grateful for what I'd accepted. A diagnosis that ended any chance of children. A divorce. A deliberate move to Portugal - another rebuild, from scratch, by choice.
The Awakening of a Dreamer is not a recovery story with a clean arc. It's the account of what actually happens between the breaking points - the small decisions, the inherited beliefs about money and worth, the emotional armor that kept me functional in combat and invisible everywhere else.
I didn't write it to inspire anyone. I wrote it because no one around me was naming what I was living through - and I suspected I wasn't the only one.
For anyone who has been competent their entire life and still ended up somewhere they didn't choose.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798291185926
- ISBN-10: 9798291185926
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: July 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.57 pounds
- Page Count: 188
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