This One's for You

THE ROAD LESS TRIGGERED is out today, and I wrote it for you. This is what I mean by that...

If you can see yourself in one of these moments, then I wrote this book for you…

• It’s for the day your bestie forgets your birthday.

• It’s for all the romantic date nights reduced to mediocrity by a tension no one can really name.

• This one’s for the Easter Egg Hunt with your friends who are downright devoted to the other political party.

• It’s for putting on your favorite socks and then stepping in dog pee on the new carpet, because the kids promised they’d care for a dog if you got one but, well, you know—kids.

• This one’s for every time you did your best and your spouse kinda-sorta implied it still wasn’t good enough.

• It’s for anyone who disappears into themselves because they don’t know what else to do.

• It’s for every companion who’s said, “I’m done!” when what they really mean is, “I don’t know where to begin.”

• It’s for the dark hours of the night, lying awake, replaying the same old scene, with no solution in sight.

• It’s for the text message that will only fuel the flames of the fight.

• It’s for anyone who plans to calm down but throws down instead—or those who plan to speak up but clam up anyway.

• Did I mention this one’s for when you do your best and it’s still not good enough for the people you love?

• Also, it’s for trying to get out the door in the morning while a kid refuses to put on their shoes.

• It’s for when your sibling says the same infuriating thing they’ve been saying since childhood.

• It’s for every time your teenager’s eyes almost roll out of their head in response to a simple request.

• It’s for the photograph in your social media feed of friends out having fun without you.

• Okay, it’s for pretty much anything in your social media feed.

• This one’s for thinking you’ve arrived spiritually, until you drop by your parents’ house, or your grown kids stop by yours.

• It’s for the futile feeling of taking two steps forward and three steps back in any relationship.

• It’s for the moment togetherness turns into tension, connectedness devolves into defensiveness, harmony gives way to hostility, or communication collapses into conflict.

• This one’s for when we get trapped by our triggers and stuck in our cycles.

I wrote it because the patterns we don’t break are the prisons we can’t break out of.

I wrote it because we don’t lack the power to change these patterns.

We’ve lacked the process.

Until now.

The Road Less Triggered is out today.

You can get it in paperback, digital, and audio at Amazon or B&N or BAM.

Or wherever books are sold.

I can’t wait to walk the road less triggered with you.

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