This 2026 expanded edition includes new chapters on emotional memory, emotional blind spots, the mask of functioning, and intimacy repair, along with reflection exercises and hands-on practices drawn from the companion workbook. Everything you need in one book.You love someone. You know you do. But when they ask what you're feeling, the words won't come. Or you're the one asking, searching their face for something you can't find, wondering if the silence means you're not e...

Navigating Relationships Without Emotional ExpressionLove is more than words—but what happens when your partner struggles to express even that? Discover the hidden world of alexithymia, where emotions are felt but not spoken, and learn how to build a relationship beyond traditional emotional expression.What if the person you love is unable to name what they feel—even for you?Emotions are the language of connection, yet for those with alexit...

When Marianne, a retired doctor of sixty, returns to her dead mother's house in a small town on the Danish Limfjord, she expects to sort through a life and leave. Instead she finds a box of letters in the attic, decades of correspondence from the women of the town, each one holding a secret Solveig kept for them and never repeated.Then the women begin to arrive at the kitchen table.One by one, across a year of Tuesdays and Thursdays and unannounced afternoons, they come wit...

You've been following rules you never agreed to.They were written in silence, during a moment of fear, a need to belong, a desperate bid for safety. And now, years or decades later, you're still enforcing them. Still managing everyone's emotions while ignoring your own. Still performing perfection to earn love. Still swallowing truths that need to be spoken.These are your silent agreements: the unspoken contracts that govern your relationships with more power than any promi...

You say yes before they finish asking. You can't remember the last time you disappointed someone without crushing guilt. You're exhausted from being everyone's reliable, low-maintenance, helpful friend, but the thought of setting a boundary feels impossible.You're not weak. You're not broken. You're fawning.Fawning is the fourth trauma response, the one that doesn't get talked about as much as fight, flight, or freeze. It's what happens whe...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Navigating Relationships Without Emotional ExpressionWhat if the person you love is unable to name what they feel—even for you?Emotions are the language of connection, yet for those with alexithymia, that language remains elusive. In Alexithymia in Relationships, we explore what happens when emotional expression is absent, when love is felt but not spoken, and when partners find themselves caught in a si...

The Second Peak: Men's Rediscovering Purpose and Power in the Second Half of Life boldly asserts that for men, true fulfillment can blossom well beyond their 40s. It defies the common myth that a man's prime must belong to youth, asking instead: What if your most impactful years are still to come? Aimed at men confronting the stirrings of midlife—those unfamiliar restlessnesses, physical changes, and evolving relationships—this book reveals how those chall...

For thirty-one years, Lone Krogh has stood at the head of a jet bridge in Copenhagen and read the faces going by, watching, as she puts it, for the trouble that has not yet declared itself. Three weeks before the airline retires her, the fortieth passenger to the evening flight to Lisbon hands her his boarding pass, and she cannot breathe. She knows the face. She last saw it on the deck of a burning ferry in 1996, hours before it went down with her sister aboard, and it belongs to a man wh...

You post something honest and rewrite it three times. You check the metrics before breakfast. You catch yourself narrating your own life as if someone is watching. And the unsettling part isn't that someone is. It's that no one needs to be. You've internalized the audience.The Digital Persona examines what happens to identity when visibility becomes a full-time condition. Drawing on Jung's original framework of the persona as a social mask, this book traces what occurs whe...

What if the person you love is unable to name what they feel—even for you?Emotions are the language of connection, yet for those with alexithymia, that language remains elusive. In Alexithymia in Relationships, we explore what happens when emotional expression is absent, when love is felt but not spoken, and when partners find themselves caught in a silent disconnect.Blending psychology, neuroscience, and spiritual insight, this book dismantles the myths surrounding emotion...

In June 2021, Arthur Holm, a forty-four-year-old psychiatrist with a practice in Marin County and a marriage that ended quietly years before, walks away from his life and sits down on a bench in Berkeley's Civic Center. He does not lose his mind. He does not hit bottom. He chooses.What follows is three years on that bench: the notebook he begins filling, the philosopher who sits down uninvited and refuses to be uninteresting, the two high school girls who bring him pastries and the...

Hanne Lindhardt has not left her apartment in three years. From the third floor of a building on Strandgade, she watches the Copenhagen harbor and translates Russian poetry, the work she has done for half a century. Her groceries come by delivery. Her oldest friend comes on Thursdays. The world outside continues without her.Then a young bookseller named Sofie Lindgren carries a box of books up three flights of stairs, and Hanne opens the door.Over fourteen months, across th...