Tides of Resilience

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tides of Resilience: Beyond the Wave</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a gripping genre-bending memoir by debut author John Bromfield - a raw cinematic journey through trauma travel and the long road to healing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At its core this is the story of two friends who set out to escape the shadows of tragedy and find meaning in the chaos of the world. From the streets of London to the temples of Thailand from rooftop parties in LA to backwater jungles in Borneo the memoir captures the highs of adventure and the lows of self-destruction - all shadowed by a single moment that changed everything: surviving the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told through vivid graphic-novel-style flashbacks pop culture references dry British humour and brutally honest reflection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tides of Resilience</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> charts one man's descent into grief addiction and PTSD - and the difficult defiant climb back out. What begins as a hedonistic escape becomes a slow reckoning with buried trauma lost friends and the question that haunts every survivor: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Why me?</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spanning more than two decades and multiple continents this memoir blends the pace of a thriller with the heart of a confessional. It is as much about backpacking and bravado as it is about silence shame and the search for self. Whether reliving a therapy breakthrough a near-drowning in Portugal or a chaotic night in Saigon Bromfield writes with searing clarity and emotional depth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a book for anyone who's ever run away to find themselves - and discovered just how far the past can chase you.</span></p><p></p>