{"product_id":"alchemized-when-the-wound-becomes-wisdom-and-trauma-becomes-fuel-9781968668396","title":"alchemized: When The Wound Becomes Wisdom and Trauma Becomes Fuel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This isn't just a memoir-it's a mirror, a balm, and a battle cry.\" -Bill Baren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart memoir, part manifesto, \u003cem\u003eAlchemized\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply personal exploration of childhood trauma, survival patterns, and what becomes possible when we stop merely surviving our stories and begin transforming them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of us carries an invisible suitcase filled with protective patterns and unprocessed pain that, when left unpacked, can sabotage our potential for joy, love, and fulfillment. We chase success and meaningful connection, yet rarely confront the inner barriers that keep us from deeper intimacy and the audacity to create lives that truly feel like our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt seventeen, Kenni King made herself a dare: stay alive. Stay long enough to discover what might exist on the other side of everything she had survived. Alchemized grew from that dare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing traces her journey from an unstable childhood shaped by addiction, violence, and growing up too soon through the relationships, choices, losses, and reckonings that followed. With raw honesty and hard-won insight, she examines how the strategies we develop to survive can follow us long after the danger has passed, showing up as hypervigilance, people-pleasing, over-responsibility, self-abandonment, rescuing, and the relentless need to hold everything together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending personal storytelling with reflection, coaching insights, and practical exercises, King invites readers to understand the patterns that once protected them, recognize where those patterns may be holding them back, and begin choosing what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing also challenges traditional ideas about recovery. Revisiting the Twelve Steps that once shaped her own healing journey, she questions concepts of powerlessness and \"character defects\" and rewrites the Steps through a framework of support, accountability, self-advocacy, and personal agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout Alchemized, King returns to a defining question: \u003cstrong\u003eWhat will I do with what happened to me?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith transparency and tenderness, Alchemized offers a soothing balm and a bold call to action for anyone carrying the weight of past pain into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe may not be able to rewrite what happened. But we can alchemize it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe wound can become wisdom, and trauma can become fuel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thought Leader Academy Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968668396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Kenni-Richelle King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459238748341,"sku":"9781968668396","price":28.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781968668396.jpg?v=1791297863","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alchemized-when-the-wound-becomes-wisdom-and-trauma-becomes-fuel-9781968668396","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}