Caffeine, Nicotine, and a Dream: An Audacious Memoir by Aleah Johnson

Being the life of the party and the party planner was the slippery slope that would lead Aleah to the lowest depths of her addiction. Life needed to change after ten years of hardcore drinking, masking what was bubbling deep within, enduring toxic relationships, living paycheck to paycheck, and four arrests.

Aleah shares her ascent from the shadows and darkness to the light that can shine through the cracks of a jail cell window. On this wild ride through time connecting past conditioning from her childhood to adulthood, there is no topic left unturned: child innocence, family dynamics, addiction, mental health, corporate burnout, relationship drama, and sexual assault…all proving that coming home is not to a place, but within oneself, using our missteps as an asset to heal and provide hope for others and live life to the fullest regardless of our troubled past.