Episode Details

On Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with Andrew Drasen, author of A Vision of Hope, to unpack a direct, step-by-step approach to moving beyond survival. Andrew turns raw experience—addiction, relapse, incarceration, and loss—into a practical 90-day framework focused on identity restoration, cognitive restructuring, goal setting, action, and legacy. This conversation gives listeners a clear blueprint for finding direction after disruption and reframes recovery as a universal human process, not a label.

About the Guest  :

Andrew Drasen is the author of A Vision of Hope and creator of a 90-day curriculum designed to help people rebuild their lives with identity, clarity, and purpose. His forthcoming trilogy—memoir, reflections companion, and workbook—bridges story into practice and informs community recovery and re-entry initiatives.

Key Takeaways:

• Recovery is universal: disruptions like burnout, grief, and identity loss require the same disciplined healing and rebuilding process.

• Start with identity restoration: examine family dynamics, formative experiences, and trauma so patterns don’t silently drive daily choices.

• Move from insight to action: define strengths, weaknesses, and goals; write them down with dates to increase completion likelihood.

• Use visualization and meditation to clarify a concrete future—work, relationships, routines—and make it feel real enough to pursue.

• Break big goals into small, dated milestones; consistency builds confidence and momentum.

• Purpose follows honesty: when actions align with inner values, resilience and follow-through become byproducts, not burdens.

• Transform pain into service: sharing openly removes shame, turns wounds into armor, and channels experience into helping others.

• Change the narrative: treat addiction and re-entry primarily as mental health and public-health issues; shape policy through informed public perception.

How to Connect with the Guest  

Website: https://avisionofhopebook.com/ 
Book: A Vision of Hope (releasing soon), preorder now from the website or buy any print edition on 2nd December 2025  

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