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For feelings that arrive at full volume

Feel everything. Drown in nothing.

Some days you can handle anything, and some days a tone of voice flattens you. Book IV shows you why, and how to feel things without going under.

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Book IV: Understanding Your Inner World
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Nobody taught you what to do with a feeling

You were taught to read, to do long division, to write a cover letter. Then someone hurt you and you had to work out the rest on your own.

So you built a system. Some people swallow it. Some explode and apologize later. Some get very, very busy. Systems like these hold for years, right up until the week they don’t.

Sound familiar?

The fight ended at 7:02

It’s midnight. The argument was at seven. He’s asleep. You’re lying next to him with your heart going like you’re still in it, drafting the thing you should have said.

The fight, the chemical part of it, was over in about ninety seconds. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard brain scientist, noticed this while relearning everything after a stroke at 37: the surge of a feeling washes through the body and starts to clear in about a minute and a half. Everything after that was her re-running the thought that started it, and every replay poured in a fresh dose.

So you haven’t been angry since seven. You’ve been getting angry again every few minutes for five hours.

Knowing that won’t stop the replay on its own. What stops it are the skills nobody taught you: catching the loop as it starts, widening how much you can feel without flooding, and knowing what anger is trying to tell you once you stop feeding it. That’s Book IV.

A happy kitten

A few months from now

The next time words land hard

Someone’s tone stings. You feel it, fully, and ninety seconds later it’s passing instead of building. You say ‘that hurt’ instead of ‘it’s fine.’ And the grief you’ve been carrying around finally gets its turn, which makes it lighter, not heavier.

What you’ll understand

Read them in any order. Start with the one that sounds like your week.

17

The Anatomy of Emotions

What a feeling is in your body, and why you sometimes know you’re upset before you know why.

18

Emotional Regulation: Feeling Without Drowning

Why you can handle anything on Monday and nothing on Thursday, and how to widen the window you cope inside.

19

The Stories You Tell Yourself

How to catch the narrator in your head mid-sentence, before it decides what today meant.

20

Letting Go: Processing Grief, Anger, and Shame

What to do with the feelings you were taught to hide, and what acceptance asks of you.

This book is for you if

  • Your feelings arrive at full volume or not at all.
  • You replay conversations for days.
  • You were the child who wasn’t allowed to be angry.
  • You’re carrying grief that never got its turn.
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From Survival to Feeling Safe

Not sure where to start?

Find out where you are first. It’s $7.

From Survival to Feeling Safe maps the way out of survival mode in four stages, with the signs for each. Find your stage first, and you’ll know which book you need next, if you need one at all.

Want Book II and Book VII as well? You get all of them in Heal Your Past, $49 instead of $59.97.

You can’t lose here

Read it for a whole year.

Change takes longer than a refund window usually allows, so ours is a year long. If at any point in the next 365 days you decide it didn’t help, email us at [email protected] and we’ll refund you in full. You don’t have to explain.

We’d rather you take a year to decide than not start at all.

Still wondering?

What exactly do I get?

A PDF you can download the moment you pay. Read it on your phone, tablet, laptop or e-reader, or print it at home. Bundles and the complete set include every book in them.

When does it arrive?

Immediately. Payhip shows you the download link on screen and emails it to you as well.

Do I have to read the books in order?

No. Each book works on its own, so start wherever it hurts most.

What if it doesn’t help?

You get your money back. You have 365 days: email us at [email protected] and we’ll refund you in full. No questions asked.

Is this only for women?

No. A nervous system is a nervous system. The examples lean toward the women we hear from most, and Book VI ends with a chapter on women’s hormonal health, but the rest applies to anyone with a body and a past.

Is this therapy?

No. It explains what’s going on inside you, so that everything else you try, therapy included, has something solid to stand on. If you’re in therapy already, bring it to your next session. If you’re struggling badly, please talk to a professional too.

These books are education, written to help you understand yourself. They don’t replace a doctor, therapist or crisis line. If you’re in danger or thinking about harming yourself, please contact your local emergency number or a crisis line right now.

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