A journey through trauma, transformation, and the awakening of the human spirit.
What if the moment that breaks you is the very moment that awakens you?
After eight years in the U.S. Army, serving with the 82nd Airborne and the 1st Infantry Division across three deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, Edy Lopez knew discipline, sacrifice, and courage. But nothing could prepare him for the battlefield within. When his life unraveled into months of panic attacks, darkness, and surrender, what emerged was not destruction, but awakening.
Within the Paradox is both mirror and map, a journey through trauma, consciousness, and the science of transformation. Blending psychology, physiology, and spirituality, Edy reveals that healing isn't about escaping pain, but understanding it, feeling it, and transmuting it into light.
For anyone standing at the threshold of change, this book is an invitation: to stop running, to turn inward, and to remember that you have never been broken, only waiting to awaken.