A trilogy, a companion workbook, and a framework for the man whose hiding has just stopped — and for the people walking with him.
Walk the pathFive stages, in sequence. Each builds on the one before. Each requires what most people avoid: consistency.
Where hiding stops. Truth spoken in full.
What you believed under the behavior.
The mind changing through repeated truth.
Truth moving outward into relationships.
Walking beside someone else’s stage one.
The trilogy plus a companion workbook — from the moment hiding stops, through the framework that follows, to the work of walking beside another man through his.
A memoir of Stage One — written for the man whose hiding is about to stop, or just has. Sixteen short chapters about the hours after the truth came out, the apology that mattered most, and what the first thirty days actually require.
The framework book. Twenty chapters across five stages — Exposure, Identity, Renewal, Restoration, Legacy — with an appendix that puts each stage in your hands as a process. Written for the man working the path, and for the leaders who walk men through one.
What Stage Five looks like when it walks beside someone else’s Stage One. Twenty-four chapters for ministry leaders, program facilitators, sponsors, and wives — including a contributed chapter from Cindy Smith in her own voice.
The workbook companion to the series — the five-stage Path, walked one page at a time. Built for personal use, small groups, recovery ministries, and program facilitators who want the framework in their hands as a process, not a read.
The path is rarely walked alone. The series is written for everyone in the room when the hiding stops.
Whether the truth has just come out or you can feel it about to — the series begins where you are and walks forward, one stage at a time.
Doing some of the same work without ever having signed up for it. Cindy Smith writes a chapter of Beside, Not Above in her own voice.
Sponsors, pastors, and ministry partners — and the program facilitators who do this work daily, in Re:Generation groups and Texas SOTP programs.
I spent decades managing what I kept hidden. What followed was a process — and the men who started calling because they were now sitting across from someone walking the same first step.
Ed Smith · Author
Ed and his wife Cindy live in Texas. He walks beside men in Re:Generation groups and Texas SOTP programs, leads the five-stage Transformation Path he teaches in the trilogy, and continues the work of staying in the light — daily.
Read the opening of The Apology You Owe and decide for yourself. No spam. The series in your inbox, one short note at a time.
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