A Memoir
Becoming Whole
A Memoir of Addiction, Survival, and Healing
"What happens when you finally stop running — and choose yourself."
About the Book
She Survived by Staying in Motion. Then Her Body Forced Her to Stop.
"It’s a story about what happens when you finally stop running — and choose yourself."
For most of her life, Katie Bruce survived by staying in motion — building an extraordinary career on the road while outrunning childhood neglect, heartbreak, addiction, and herself.
Then her body forced her to stop. Becoming Whole is Katie’s raw, funny, and deeply personal story of how a highly functioning cocaine addict and lifelong roadie found herself facing a life-changing medical diagnosis — and decided she wasn’t going out like that.
What follows is not just a story of survival, but of transformation: learning to heal her body, confront the past, let go of what she couldn’t control, and deliberately rebuild her life from the inside out.
About the Author
Katie Bruce
Katie Bruce spent decades building an extraordinary career on the road — and just as long outrunning herself. A highly functioning addict, she kept moving until a life-changing medical diagnosis made that impossible.
What came next was the hardest thing she’d ever done: stop. Heal. Confront everything she’d been running from. And choose, deliberately, to rebuild her life from the inside out.
Becoming Whole is her story — raw, funny, and deeply honest. Katie writes and speaks about addiction, survival, and the radical act of choosing yourself.
Early Praise
What Readers Are Saying
“A devastating and ultimately life-affirming memoir. Katie Bruce writes with the kind of honesty that makes you feel less alone in the world.”
“I read this in one sitting. I couldn’t put it down. I didn’t want to. This book will stay with me for a long time.”
“Becoming Whole is the book I wish I’d had when I was in the middle of my own darkness. It is a lifeline.”
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