Something in your life has broken. Maybe it was the marriage, the career, the money. Maybe it was all of it at once. Or maybe it was something quieter - the slow drift from the man you used to recognize in yourself.
This book is for that man.
This Is How You Go Forward is a structured way back through the wreckage - told honestly, from inside the process, not from the other side of it. Paul Piette spent twenty-one years building a school for teenagers the system had written off, then watched everything collapse at once: his marriage, his career, his finances, his sense of who he was. He wrote this book during the process of finding his way back. Not after it.
What you will find here is not inspiration or a comeback story. It is the specific, sometimes uncomfortable work of rebuilding the relationship with yourself - the one that makes everything else possible. Structure, honesty, identity, and the willingness to stop pretending you are fine.
Written for men who have lost themselves and need more than advice - they need a way through.