Paul Drugan is a Chicago-based author, trauma-survivor advocate, and Harvard-educated writer whose work explores childhood trauma, healing, forgiveness, addiction recovery, and personal transformation. His perspective blends academic insight with lived experience, shaped by decades of advocacy in political reform, civil rights, and community-based healing initiatives. This background gives Paul a unique ability to illuminate how pain, resilience, identity, and redemption intersect in the human experience.

Rooted in Chicago—a city defined by toughness, grit, and reinvention—Paul brings that same emotional honesty to his writing. He has long championed equality and survivor empowerment at the local, state, and national levels, and his storytelling reflects the same mission: direct, compassionate, and grounded in hope.

As the author of Forgiving Dr. Jekyll: From Hyde to Healing, Paul offers a raw and deeply moving trauma memoir about surviving childhood abuse, breaking generational cycles, overcoming shame, and discovering the spiritual and psychological practices that made forgiveness possible. His work speaks to readers seeking trauma recovery, inner-child healing, LGBTQ+ coming-of-age perspectives, addiction recovery, and the transformative power of forgiveness.

Paul writes in service of others to help reclaim their voices, confront their past with clarity and courage, and recognize the strength already living within them. His mission as an author and advocate is to offer connection, understanding, and a path forward for anyone who has ever felt broken—and is ready to heal.