Resources for Your Comeback
A collection of practical, experience-driven workbooks by Michael Krowne, created to help sober leaders, creators, and rebuilders get unstuck, rebuild clarity, and regain momentum one step at a time.
New instructions
A practical reset for rewriting the rules you’re living by so your decisions, priorities, and next moves actually fit who you are now.
Starting From Experience
Turns your past into usable insight so you stop looping old patterns and start building from what you’ve already lived and learned.
The Good-Enough Revolution
Turns lived experience into clarity you can actually build from.
When Shame is Sabotaging
Brings awareness to the moments shame quietly takes control so you can interrupt it before it slows or sabotages your progress.
You Didn't home This Far to Only Come This Far
A grounding guide for when you feel stuck that helps you reconnect with your direction and take the next meaningful step forward.
A Letter From Michael
I didn’t create these workbooks because I had everything figured out.
I created them because I didn’t.
They came out of the moments when I was sober, functional, and still stuck. When the chaos wasn’t obvious anymore, but nothing was moving. When I had done the “right things” and still felt lost, scattered, or quietly frustrated with myself.
What I learned the hard way is this: most of the time, we’re not broken.
We’re just running old instructions.
I kept looking for big answers. Purpose. Passion. The perfect next move.
But change didn’t come from insight alone. It came from small, intentional actions that gave my brain new evidence to work with.
That’s where these workbooks came from.
Each one exists because I hit a specific wall:
Following rules that no longer fit
Repeating patterns I couldn’t explain
Getting trapped in perfectionism and overthinking
Letting shame quietly run the show
Stalling after progress and wondering, “Is this it?”
These aren’t motivational exercises. They’re tools.
They combine lived experience with structured reflection so you can interrupt the loops that keep you stuck and start moving again without waiting to feel ready.
You don’t need to do all five at once.
You don’t need to do them perfectly.
You just need to start where you are and take one honest step.
That’s how I rebuilt my life.
That’s how I built businesses after addiction.
And that’s why these workbooks exist.
Not to fix you.
To give you something solid to work with.
Because there’s nothing wrong with your brain.
It’s just waiting for new instructions.
– Michael.
Meet Michael Krowne
Michael is the co-founder of Faebl and Pivotal, and a sober entrepreneur who’s rebuilt from the ground up. He combines lived experience with neuroscience and systems thinking to help others navigate their comeback with clarity and intention.
“You’re not starting from scratch. You’re starting from experience.”
Got Questions?
No. These are practical tools built from lived experience and structured reflection. They’re designed to help you move, not just think.
No. These workbooks are for anyone who feels stuck, scattered, or trapped in a pattern they can’t seem to break, whether that comes from addiction, recovery, burnout, loss, or a major life reset.
Both. Each workbook blends lived experience with proven frameworks so reflection leads to action, not overthinking.
They’re not for people looking for quick hacks, motivational hype, or someone else to tell them what to feel.