Returning to Yourself

You answer every text. You remember every appointment. You hold the house, the job, the marriage and the kids together with both hands, and when someone finally asks how you are, you say fine.

You haven't been fine for a long time. You know it. You just haven't had a minute to sit with it.

Returning to Yourself is 101 letters written to the woman who does everything for everyone and ends up last on her own list. One letter per page. Each one short enough to read while the coffee is still hot, and honest enough that you'll want to read it twice.

These letters are about the things you carry and never mention: the guilt when you rest, the "I'm fine" that closes every conversation, the marriage where you stopped asking, the family that only works when you never stop, the slow way you disappeared while taking care of everyone else.

You don't have to read them in order. Open the book wherever your hand lands. The letter you find is the one for today.

Some will feel like a friend sitting down next to you. A few will feel like someone saw through you. Both are on purpose.

This book is for you if:

• You say yes before you've checked how you feel.
• You are the one everyone counts on, and nobody checks on.
• You've been tired for so long you forgot it wasn't normal.
• You want to come back to yourself, and you don't know where to start.

Start here. Page one is waiting, and so is the woman you were before you put yourself last.