Kyle Layne

Forthcoming memoir

Chasing Control

A memoir of addiction, grief, fatherhood, faith, and the fight to stop managing life and start living it.

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Book description

The cost of holding everything together.

Chasing Control follows the life that can form around addiction, grief, achievement, fear, faith, and fatherhood: a life built to look managed while something deeper is coming apart.

The book is not a victory lap or a neat recovery slogan. It is a memoir about surrender, repair, and the painful grace of learning that control is not the same thing as love, strength, or safety.

Themes

What the memoir carries.

Addiction and recovery

The hidden patterns, consequences, honesty, and daily work of rebuilding a life.

Grief and fatherhood

The ache of loss, the responsibility of love, and the life of Kyle's daughter at the center of the story.

Faith and surrender

The difference between performing belief and depending on grace when control fails.

Trust and repair

What it takes to stop managing perception and begin living with integrity.

Why I wrote it

Because silence protects the wrong things.

This book exists for the people who have been praised for keeping it together while quietly losing themselves. It is an attempt to tell the truth without turning pain into a performance.

Who it's for

Readers who recognize the mask.

For people in recovery, people who love someone in recovery, fathers carrying more than they can name, and anyone learning that being capable is not the same as being whole.

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Cover art

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Preorder details

This V1 does not include ecommerce or launch-list capture. Preorder links can be added when available.

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Endorsements

Future praise, media notes, and early reader quotes can live here without changing the page structure.

Explore the broader work around the book.

More Than Capable extends the same themes through writing, podcast conversations, and speaking.