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Rewired. Restored. is a memoir about pornography addiction, dopamine-driven compulsive behavior, and what happens when a high-functioning life breaks. Tony Crandall spent nearly three decades in global consulting at EY, IBM, and PwC - leading large transformation programs, solving complex finance issues, and building a career that looked successful from the outside. At the same time, he was managing compulsive behavior, chronic shame, and a nervous system he could not control. The book begins on Day 53 of recovery, when a moment listening to music in his car breaks through years of emotional shutdown - and forces a closer look at how his life was actually operating. Crandall traces his early years in rural Ohio - neglect, bullying, physical punishment, religious rigidity, and the absence of safety - and shows how those conditions shaped patterns of overachievement, control, and addiction. What looked like discipline was conditioning. What looked like success was compensation. He then breaks down how those patterns work: how dopamine reinforces behavior, how compulsive loops form, and why high performers often hold everything together professionally while falling apart internally. The book introduces the Seven Tenets of personal accountability and the Seven Pillars of recovery - frameworks built from what he applied to change his own behavior. Rewired. Restored. is a direct account of addiction, trauma, and behavioral change. It shows what it looks like when performance stops working - and what it takes to rebuild without relying on it.

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