The Inner Life

9 literary Companions in this category.

• The Architecture of Boredom — Why you are terrified of doing nothing

  This booklet is for people who can’t sit still. Who fill every silence. Who reach for their phone during a red light. Who have seventeen tabs open and three podcasts queued and a book on the nightstan

• The Imposter’s Handbook — Feeling like a fraud in your own life

  You’re in a meeting. You’re contributing. People are nodding. Taking your suggestions seriously. Treating you like you know what you’re talking about. And inside, you’re thinking: If they knew how muc

• The Night Watch — Making peace with 3:00 AM insomnia

  This booklet is for people who know 3:00 AM too well. Who wake in the dark and can’t get back. Who lie there while the world sleeps, alone with thoughts that only come at night. The ceiling. The clock

• The Anatomy of Envy — Watching others live the life you thought you wanted

  Someone else has what you want. They got the job. The relationship. The house. The body. The talent. The recognition. The life. They’re living it. You’re watching. And the watching is poisonous.

• The Shame Spiral — How to stop the internal trial

  This booklet is about shame. The kind that loops. The kind that feeds on itself. The kind that starts with one mistake, one failure, one moment of not-enough, and then compounds. Multiplies. Becomes n

• The Practice of Solitude — Being alone without being lonely

  This booklet is about being alone. Not loneliness. Not isolation. Not the painful kind of aloneness that feels like exile. The other kind. The deliberate kind. The chosen kind. Solitude. Solitude is d

• The Arsonist Inside — Managing anger without burning down the house

  This booklet is for people with fire inside. Who feel the rage rise and don’t know what to do with it. Who have said things they can’t unsay. Done things they can’t undo. Who have watched themselves b

• The Sunday Dread — Facing the week before it begins
• The Memory Palace — Dealing with the things you cannot forget

  This booklet is for people carrying memories they didn’t ask to keep. The moment that won’t fade. The conversation that plays on loop. The image that surfaces at 3am. The thing that happened that your