Your life doesn’t have to be perfect to be worth living.
What happens when the life you were taught to live is no longer the life you want for yourself?
In this deeply personal, heartfelt, and often humorous memoir, author and podcast host Corey Proffitt-Boyd takes readers on an extraordinary journey from a childhood of poverty in a small Kentucky community to a life shaped by courage, love, loss, reinvention, and the determination to live authentically.
With remarkable vulnerability and refreshing honesty, Corey shares the experiences that shaped him, from growing up gay in a world that didn’t always make room for differences to confronting addiction, rebuilding relationships, finding unconditional love, and navigating the devastating grief of losing the people who helped make him who he is.
Through moments of heartbreak, unexpected laughter, and hard-won wisdom, The Life I Almost Missed explores what it means to stop living for everyone else’s expectations and finally give yourself permission to become who you were always meant to be.
More than a memoir, this is a story about second chances, the extraordinary power of ordinary moments, and the realization that it’s never too late to change the direction of your life.
Because sometimes the greatest tragedy isn’t losing your life. It’s never allowing yourself to truly live it.
