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By Bravery and Faith
So what inspired me to write and commission this book? I wanted a memory to hold onto when my Dad is walked home.
I want my children & their children's children to read about their grandparents and great grandparents. This experience has been more than writing a memoir and leaving a history behind. It was a new chance for Lloyd Burton Harley, Neisha-Anne Harley and me to connect with our father.
The joy we experienced going through old photographs and old memories.
The nostalgia was like nectar to our souls, a warm blanket, a bedtime story, biscuits in the oven, a soothing hand over a scraped knee and a hug after a broken teenager heart.
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Hunting the past
Hunting the Past is a cautionary tale about how I became unmoored and got up to all sorts of mischief which led me down the road of drugs, alcohol and sex. The story communicates a friendship and divine intervention – spared for a purpose. I've been led to put down this short piece of text to help me navigate what got me from there to here. Perhaps this dialogue will in some way help spark something in you so that you too can navigate some of the challenges that you face as well.
This profound book will show you
• God uses broken things
• We are all on this earthly journey for a purpose
• God has gifted and entrusted us with his blessing
• You are the job.
Discover the secret for yourself and learn from this cautionary tale how that every time we work on something about ourselves that we don't like, we start to heal.
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Afflicted: Journal of an Addict
At 28, weighing 40 kilograms Peter Harley was ready to die. A devastating drug and alcohol addiction that had started when he was 13 had brought him to this point.
He made a decision to get clean, and to fight for his life.
His unique perspective as a high-functioning addict may be helpful to anyone who is still an addict or is recovering from the aftermath of their affliction.
He is a warning for anyone who is considering going down the death road of drugs and alcohol.
Broken promises, broken dreams and broken lives are strewn in the wake of Peter's affliction.
He has spent the last 20 years trying to redeem himself. He is still on that journey.
This book is part of that redemption. It's a part survival guide, part memoir and part cautionary tale.
He imparts a particular wisdom gained from his experience that can help anyone afflicted by addiction.
If you want to change your life for the better and have the courage to read this book, what is seen will not be able to be unseen.
It has a very clear mandate: Either take responsibility for your healing or don't. Only you are the master of your destiny.
Make the right choice. It's only up to you.
Broken but still breathing
How to Endure, Overcome, and Run the Race of Life
When life breaks you, what keeps you moving forward?
In this inspiring and brutally honest book, Peter Isaac Harley draws powerful parallels between running a marathon and surviving life’s hardest seasons. Each chapter becomes a mile marker, confronting exhaustion, finding strength in silence, and discovering the unseen helpers and angels along the way.
You’ll uncover how to push past pain, turn scars into strength, and build the endurance to keep going when everything in you wants to quit. With faith, resilience, and practical exercises for personal growth, this is more than a book about running; it’s a roadmap for life.
If you’ve ever felt broken, this book will remind you: as long as you’re still breathing, you’re still in the race. And finishers are never forgotten.
The Respectable Juniors
In the early 1980s, in the heart of Kensington on Cape Town’s notorious Cape Flats, three boys stand at a crossroads. Tosh, Zico, and Twist are ordinary teenagers chasing football, laughter, and girls — until the lure of fast money, drugs, and reputation pulls them into the underworld that shaped their community.
From the pool halls of Factreton to the back rooms of drug merchants, the boys form The Respectable Juniors, a crew bound by loyalty but tempted by greed. Together they dream of daring heists, a bank, a jewellery store, even the empire of Duke, Kensington’s feared merchant. But as each score raises the stakes, friendship fractures, love is tested, and betrayal festers in the shadows.
Told with raw grit and emotional depth, The Respectable Juniors is more than a gangster tale. It is the story of how apartheid’s forced removals and poverty carved a breeding ground for violence, and how the cost of “respect” can echo across a lifetime.
In Kensington, every choice has a price — and not every boy survives to pay it.
Confessions of a Functioning Addict
You don’t have a discipline problem.
You have a system problem.
You’ve tried to change. You’ve started strong. You’ve told yourself this time will be different.
And yet, you keep falling back into the same patterns.
Not because you’re weak.
Not because you lack discipline.
But because your system is designed to fail.
In Confessions of a Functioning Addict, Peter Isaac Harley exposes the real reason consistency never lasts—and shows you how to build a system that makes it inevitable.
This is not motivation.
This is an operating manual.
Change the system.
Change your life.
Seven Rings
What if everything you think is you… isn’t?
Jack Daniel lives in a world of deadlines, pressure, and precision—modern Dubai at full speed.
Then something breaks. Not outside… inside.
He begins to see.
The patterns.
The invisible forces.
The system running through every thought, every reaction, every identity.
And once seen—
it cannot be unseen.
As reality starts to fracture, Jack is pulled into a deeper truth: that within every person lives something untouched, something beyond the mind… something ancient.
The Light.
But seeing it comes at a cost.
Relationships shift. The world pushes back. And the closer he gets to the truth, the more everything he thought was real begins to dissolve.
This is not a story about becoming.
This is a story about remembering.
You are not who you think you are.
You Were Never Broken — You Were Just Untrained
Nothing is wrong with you.
You were never taught how to use yourself.
Most people live their entire lives believing they are flawed, damaged, or missing something essential. They carry the weight of past mistakes, emotional scars, and self-doubt, assuming these are proof that they are broken. This book challenges that belief at its core.
You Were Never Broken — You Were Just Untrained is not a motivational pep talk. It is a framework for mastery.
Drawing from lived experience and deep spiritual insight, Peter Isaac Harley reveals a truth few are taught: every human being is born with four powerful tools that shape destiny —, Their conscious mind, and the subconscious mind, Infinite Intelligence and God. When these tools are misunderstood or left untrained, life feels chaotic and overwhelming. When they are aligned and disciplined, life begins to respond.
This book shows you how to move from survival to authorship. From reacting to circumstances to consciously creating outcomes. Through practical daily disciplines, clear mental frameworks, and grounded spiritual practices, you will learn how to retrain your thinking, reprogram your inner world, and act with faith and precision.
This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about finally learning how you work.
If you are tired of repeating the same cycles, questioning your worth, or waiting for life to change, this book offers a different path — one built on responsibility, clarity, and inner authority.
You are not broken.
You never were.
You were just untrained.