The Fire I Fed: From Ashes to Awareness
This book is an extension of The Staying Practice.
It follows a lived experience of striving, disconnection, and the quiet return to what was never actually lost.
What began as a search for control gradually revealed something else.
Most of what we do is not about improvement, but about relief.
Over time, that pattern becomes self-reinforcing.
Not because it is wrong, but because it works in the moment.
This book explores that process
and what becomes possible when we begin to see it.
At its core, this is not a book about fixing.
It is about understanding
why we do what we do
and what happens when we learn to stay.
Available now.
By Andrew W. Seefeld, MD, FACEP, FASAM
Emergency physician and addiction medicine specialist
This is not a story about addiction alone.
It is about the patterns that shape all of us.