When the Running Began: A Young Man's Journey To Show Up In Life

by Shayne Hughes

Shayne Hughes recounts his journey from a turbulent, reckless adolescence to stable adulthood, drawing back the curtain on his life in each riveting, well-written chapter. The author excels at portraying his early abuse of drugs and alcohol and the difficulty of his efforts to stand on his own two feet and overcome the temptations and trials he faced. Deftly weaving between past and present, he tells a story that will resonate with any reader who has struggled with substance abuse or persistent inner turmoil, and offers an engaging story of his own unlikely road to a life of gratitude and responsibility.

317 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 9, 2015

About the author

Shayne Hughes is President of Learning as Leadership where he specializes in creating corporate cultures of open communication and collaboration. His forthcoming book, co-authored with former CEO client Brandon Black, The Leader, the Ego and the Organization (Greenleaf, 2016) chronicles how they transformed a publicly traded company’s dysfunctions and performance issues into industry leadership, growth and profit. Visit learnaslead.com.

Reviews

[Willie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shane too Shayne,
who courageously shares his battle to overcome the painful cavern left from his parents divorce and the severe scar tissue left in the aftermath.
Raised up by loving, fearfully overwhelmed mother and masculine saturated stepdad who’s fear in the name of love inadvertently leave a child unprepared to face life’s hurdles at every turn.
Shane struggles are real common but with no grounding he begins his teen battle with alcohol and its first cousins on an obstacle course of addiction-to-mental illness that tortures an otherwise lovable nerdy adolescent.
This is a story that’s inexcusably to common. However in Shayne’s case ends up ?
Must read for all Parents who don’t know about addiction proximity!
Thanks to the author for his incredible service in sharing this memoir.