Still Here

I'm not selling a miracle cure-I'm just a guy in his fifties who should've been dead a few times, still here and telling the truth about what that actually feels like.Still Here isn't some polished "I was lost, now I'm found" story. It's the messy, back‑and‑forth reality of addiction, relapse, grief, and faith in your fifties-when you've buried people, blown up relationships, and still wake up breathing. If you're tired of fake positivity and just want someone to say what it's really like, this is me doing that on paper.

Still Here is the raw, honest story of a man in his fifties who should not be alive, but is. After years of addiction, bad decisions, and running from God, Michael La Mura finds himself surrounded by loss: friends gone, family fractured, and a future that feels already buried. In these pages, he looks back on the hits, the relapses, the overdoses, and the moments that should have ended everything-then he traces the quiet ways God kept breaking in anyway. This is a memoir about addiction, grief, and second chances, but also about an ordinary man learning that being "still here" is not an accident. It is for every person who wonders if they've gone too far, failed too many times, or lost too much to ever find their way home again. ��