Embracing the Invisible – Paperback

Embracing the Invisible: The Hidden Cost of Staying Strong explores the hidden patterns we mistake for personality, and the ways childhood adaptations can continue to shape our adult lives.

Through Claire’s story, you may begin to recognise some of your own patterns. The need to keep going. To be capable. To avoid disappointing people. To step in, smooth things over, achieve, help, cope or hold everything together, often without consciously deciding to do any of it.

The book invites you to become curious about what sits underneath these automatic responses. Where did they come from? What once made them useful? And are they still needed now?

As those patterns become easier to see, something else becomes possible: a little more space between what happens and how you respond. The opportunity to notice when you are acting from an old script rather than making a choice that suits the person you are today.

This is a short, accessible read for anyone who has ever wondered why they keep doing things they know exhaust them, or why changing a familiar pattern can be so much harder than simply deciding to change.

Paperback edition, 5.5 × 8.5 inches.

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