A library for the moments between sessions

One hundred and nine literary Companions for the transitions clients carry into your office.

Most of what your clients are working through doesn’t have a name. It isn’t in the manual. It’s the slow weight of a life rearranging itself, and the language for it is rarely clinical.

The Tuesday client who’s been stuck for months on something her family calls a phase. The man whose father died eighteen months ago and who has stopped mentioning it. The couple whose argument is never about the dishes.

You know what they’re grieving, but they don’t have words for it yet.

Transitional.life is a library of those words, written for the client to read on their own time, between your sessions. Not a workbook. Not a homework assignment. A small literary Companion that names what’s happening.

Featured Companions for this work

  • The Calendar of Firsts — Surviving the year of anniversaries

    For clients in early bereavement.

  • The Family Script — Loving people who don’t understand you

    For clients navigating origin-family work.

  • The Comparison Trap — Other people’s happiness is not your failure

    For clients in shame loops.

  • The Gentle Disconnect — How to leave without disappearing

    For clients ending relationships.

  • Realizing You’re Ordinary — When special becomes average

    For high-achieving clients in collapse.

The clinical concept lookup

The Reader includes a clinical concept lookup that maps each Companion to DSM-5-adjacent concepts and themes: adjustment, role transition, internalized shame, anticipatory grief, masking, decision paralysis, meaning reconstruction. You can look up a moment from your last session and find the Companion that names it.

Questions

How do I share a booklet with a client?
You email or print the PDF. There is no portal or login. Once it’s in their hands, it’s theirs.
Is this evidence-based?
The booklets are literary, not clinical. They sit alongside your work the way a poem might. The clinical concept lookup is a thematic reference tool, not a diagnostic instrument.
Will it replace what I do?
No. It supplements the time between sessions, where most of the actual work happens.
What about HIPAA?
Nothing leaves your computer. The Reader is a single HTML file. No analytics, no cloud, no logs.
What if I close my practice?
The license is perpetual. Your access doesn’t end.

One license. One practitioner. Yours for as long as you have a practice.