Scars for Future Wars

<p><strong>Scars for Future Wars: A Memoir</strong></p><p>A searing & skin-ripping memoir by Canadian author and musician <strong>Jordan Jongema</strong> chronicling his descent through alcoholism near-death and the fragile beauty of survival.</p><p></p><p>For years Jongema lived between worlds - onstage behind the drum kit and guitar and offstage in the chaos of addiction that nearly claimed his life. <em>Scars for Future Wars</em> traces his brutal path from blackout drinking and withdrawal psychosis to the hallucinatory horrors of Delirium Tremens a condition that left him hovering between reality and something far beyond it.</p><p></p><p>Amid hospital lights and hallucinated hellscapes Jongema began to rediscover fragments of meaning - through music through solitude through the slow reconstruction of a self he thought he'd destroyed. Layered with sharp philosophical reflection and cinematic honesty <em>Scars for Future Wars</em> confronts the darkest corners of human experience without flinching yet finds in them the flicker of something sacred.</p><p></p><p>What begins as a descent into chaos becomes an unfiltered exploration of consciousness and survival - a reckoning with the mind the body and the spirit. With the precision of a musician and the honesty of a man stripped of everything Jongema turns his pain into something luminous.</p>