A Vision of Hope

Reflections

Andrew Drasen

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Vision of Hope Media
02 December 2025

Coping with drug & alcohol abuse; Self-help & personal development; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

Series: A Vision of Hope

Everyone has something to recover from.

A Vision of Hope: Reflections is the bridge between story and practice. Written in jail cells and treatment centers, these short essays distill the lessons, questions, and insights that followed the storm told in the memoir A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose.

Where the memoir is raw narrative, Reflections pauses to ask what it all means. Each entry is part meditation, part provocation on acceptance, faith, trauma, forgiveness, justice, purpose, resilience, and fragile hope. Some reflections are deeply personal; others widen into culture, politics, and systems. Together, they invite the reader not to agree, but to wrestle, to sit with what stings or inspires, and to carry forward what helps.

This book is not therapy or doctrine. It is one voice telling the truth as he sees it-sometimes sharp, sometimes searching, always grounded in lived experience. Readers are encouraged to take what resonates, challenge what doesn't, and use each piece as a lens for their own journey of healing and transformation.

Reflections can be read cover to cover or dipped into as needed-each entry stands alone as a meditation or prompt. It forms the middle piece of a three-part ecosystem: the memoir tells the story, Reflections distills the lessons, and The Workbook turns those lessons into action through a structured 90-day curriculum. The three together create a pathway for growth and direction for individual readers, group facilitators, recovery programs, and institutions.

Use Cases

Individuals in recovery: Offers daily or weekly meditations that reinforce addiction recovery, resilience, and personal growth. Families and supporters: Provides accessible entries to spark empathy, conversation, and mutual understanding during the reentry process. Treatment centers and reentry programs: Can be paired with the workbook to guide structured group discussions and journaling exercises. Universities and libraries: Serves as a versatile resource across criminal justice, counseling, social work, and personal development courses. Book clubs and community groups: Stands alone or alongside the memoir for discussion of themes like trauma healing, forgiveness, and purpose. Self-help readers: Reflections offers a daily dose of introspection and hard-won wisdom readers will be able to carry with them.

Why It MattersFor individuals navigating addiction, prison reentry, grief, or trauma, Reflections offers reminders that recovery is not an abstract concept but a daily choice. For institutions, it provides material that fits into curricula, group facilitation, and training. And for the general reader, it extends the memoir into reflections that open a window into resilience, redemption, and the pursuit of meaning.

Blending memoir, self-help, and social commentary, Andrew Drasen's work belongs alongside James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle. It is confessional and practical, personal and political, spiritual and unsparing.

At its core, A Vision of Hope: Reflections is about possibility-that even in the aftermath of chaos, shame, and loss, reflection can spark change.

By: Andrew Drasen
Imprint: Vision of Hope Media
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 154g
ISBN: 9798999641540
Series: A Vision of Hope
Pages: 108
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Drasen is a writer, speaker, and advocate for recovery and reentry. Drawing from his own lived experience with addiction, incarceration, and loss, he founded A Vision of Hope Media to create pathways of healing, resilience, and purpose. His work blends memoir, self-help, and social commentary to spark both personal transformation and systemic awareness. He lives in Franklin, Wisconsin.

Reviews for A Vision of Hope: Reflections

""This is a great companion book to A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose. Use this book to reflect on your life using the 29 guided reflection topics. Use this book to reflect and find your life purpose. Great book on its own also."" Paul via Goodreads ""A Vision of Hope: Reflections is a raw, disciplined, and powerfully distilled companion to A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose. Andrew Drasen strips away every trace of fluff to offer twenty-nine piercing reflections that read like truth serum for anyone rebuilding after collapse. These pieces are tight, honest, and intentionally uncomfortable in the best way. They refuse excuses and insist on clarity, responsibility, and momentum. What makes this collection so striking is its credibility. Each reflection feels forged in lived experience, not theory, and the writing carries a calm authority born of someone who has paid the price for his insights. Drasen balances tough-love realism with a quiet, steady hope that never drifts into sentimentality. Compact yet deeply resonant, Reflections succeeds both as a standalone guide and as a powerful extension of the memoir-moving readers from understanding to action with uncommon sincerity."" David via Goodreads ""A powerful and honest account of personal transformation... a valuable resource for people in recovery, mentors, or organizations looking to spark real conversations about redemption and resilience."" - Dr. Jason Roop, Center for Trait-Based Transformation ""Andrew's willingness to face his mistakes publicly in the hope of helping others is both courageous and inspiring. Readers will find his story enlightening, uplifting, and an invitation to community and purpose."" - David Kingsbury, Licensed Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor