Forgiven AF (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Success Publications Sar, 2026
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Paperback. FORGIVEN AF One cold December morning, Shawn Serfass was lying on the floor watching cartoons with his infant son. An hour later, he was in handcuffs. Eight DEA agents. AR-15s. Red dots moving across the walls, and across his child. In that moment, everything Shawn had been running from finally caught up with him. And sitting alone in a cell at Tarrant County Jail that night, one question kept forming in his mind: How did I get here? Forgiven AF is the answer to that question, and it is not a comfortable one. Shawn had every advantage. A decorated Naval officer for a father. Real athletic talent. A mind sharp enough to outsell every salesman in the dealership his first month on the job. But underneath all of it was a boy shaped by abandonment and a hunger to belong that no amount of success could fill. Weed became pills. Pills became cocaine. Cocaine became meth. And somewhere along the way, the hustle stopped being about money and started being about survival - until the morning the door came off its hinges and survival wasn't an option anymore. What followed was a 160 month federal prison sentence. What came out the other side was something nobody, including Shawn - saw coming. This book is for the man in the cell who is wondering if it's too late. It is for the teenager already drifting toward the wrong crowd, the wrong choices, and the wrong version of himself. It is for anyone who has ever looked at their own life and asked how did I get here - and genuinely wanted the answer. Forgiven AF doesn't offer a polished redemption story. It offers the real one, with every bad decision, every broken promise, every moment of shame included. But it also offers something most books like this never deliver: a practical, hard-won roadmap for what comes next. Five keys to rebuilding your life, not from a therapist's office or a motivational stage, but from a man who figured them out in a prison library, on a Louisiana rec yard, and in the rubble of everything he once was. What's inside?The unfiltered truth about how a Navy kid from Virginia Beach ended up in a federal prison in Louisiana, and every decision that got him thereAn honest look at addiction from the inside, what it actually feels like, what it actually costs, and why "just stopping" is never as simple as it soundsThe moment in a pre-trial jail unit that changed everything, and the last person on earth who delivered itFive practical, proven keys to transformation that work whether you are behind bars, in recovery, or simply stuck in a version of your life you no longer recognizeProof that your past is not a life sentence, unless you treat it like oneWithin one year of walking out of prison, Shawn Serfass had regained custody of his son, gotten married, and opened a gym. Today he runs a mentorship organization for at-risk youth and a roofing company built on faith, family, and fitness. None of it made sense on paper. All of it was real. Your past doesn't define you. Your circumstances don't control you. And your future is still yours to build. The only question is whether you're willing to do something about it. Forgiven AF - because grace isn't the end of the story. It's the beginning. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Forgiven AF (Paperback)
- Author
- Shawn Serfass
- Publisher
- Success Publications Sar
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798895714027
One cold December morning, Shawn Serfass was lying on the floor watching cartoons with his infant son.
An hour later, he was in handcuffs.
Eight DEA agents. AR-15s. Red dots moving across the walls, and across his child. In that moment, everything Shawn had been running from finally caught up with him. And sitting alone in a cell at Tarrant County Jail that night, one question kept forming in his mind:
How did I get here?
Forgiven AF is the answer to that question, and it is not a comfortable one.
Shawn had every advantage. A decorated Naval officer for a father. Real athletic talent. A mind sharp enough to outsell every salesman in the dealership his first month on the job. But underneath all of it was a boy shaped by abandonment and a hunger to belong that no amount of success could fill. Weed became pills. Pills became cocaine. Cocaine became meth. And somewhere along the way, the hustle stopped being about money and started being about survival — until the morning the door came off its hinges and survival wasn't an option anymore.
What followed was a 160 month federal prison sentence.
What came out the other side was something nobody, including Shawn — saw coming.
This book is for the man in the cell who is wondering if it's too late. It is for the teenager already drifting toward the wrong crowd, the wrong choices, and the wrong version of himself. It is for anyone who has ever looked at their own life and asked how did I get here — and genuinely wanted the answer.
Forgiven AF doesn't offer a polished redemption story. It offers the real one, with every bad decision, every broken promise, every moment of shame included. But it also offers something most books like this never deliver: a practical, hard-won roadmap for what comes next. Five keys to rebuilding your life, not from a therapist's office or a motivational stage, but from a man who figured them out in a prison library, on a Louisiana rec yard, and in the rubble of everything he once was.
What's inside?
- The unfiltered truth about how a Navy kid from Virginia Beach ended up in a federal prison in Louisiana, and every decision that got him there
- An honest look at addiction from the inside, what it actually feels like, what it actually costs, and why "just stopping" is never as simple as it sounds
- The moment in a pre-trial jail unit that changed everything, and the last person on earth who delivered it
- Five practical, proven keys to transformation that work whether you are behind bars, in recovery, or simply stuck in a version of your life you no longer recognize
- Proof that your past is not a life sentence, unless you treat it like one
Within one year of walking out of prison, Shawn Serfass had regained custody of his son, gotten married, and opened a gym. Today he runs a mentorship organization for at-risk youth and a roofing company built on faith, family, and fitness. None of it made sense on paper. All of it was real.
Your past doesn't define you. Your circumstances don't control you. And your future is still yours to build.
The only question is whether you're willing to do something about it.
Forgiven AF — because grace isn't the end of the story. It's the beginning.
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