My books

My books are collections of one-page essays exploring aspects of self care, relationships or boundaries. They can be read in any order. 

All are listed below, in the order I wrote them, the newest on top.

Going Nowhere and Other Wondrous Things We Mistake as Pointless

This is a book to address that recurring sense that we are lost, even when we’re not.

Stories that Fit in a Teacup and Other Things to Sip

This is a book of personal short stories and my adventures discovering the things I write about.

Please Don’t Blame Love: A Relationship Handbook

This book is a collection of things I wish someone had told me about relationships.

For All I Know: A Shebang of Checklists for Life

This book is a collection of handy lists about life. You know, things you can check in with yourself on every day.

Demote Yourself and Other Ways to Show Your Ego Who’s Boss

This is a book about sacrificing what others want for you, or what you think you should want, so you can go find what you actually want.

The Love of Your Life Is You: A Step-By-Step Workbook to Loving Yourself

Sure you have to love yourself, but how? This is a step-by-step, self-guided workbook to loving yourself.

How to Draw Your Boundaries and Why No One Else Can Save You

This book shares how boundaries are the path to self love and to healthier relationships.

Feelings Are Fickle and Other Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me

This book is about how understanding feelings as transitory will change the way you react to them, which will set you free.

Love Yourself and Other Insurgent Acts That Recast Everything

This book explains how loving yourself is an insurgent act. Join the resistance.

You Belong Everywhere and Other Things You’ll Have to See For Yourself

This book is the family history I wrote for my nieces and nephews so that they know where they come from.

How to Build a Pillow Fort and Other Valuable Life Lessons

This book shares critical lessons about life and necessary skills (everyone needs to know how to build a pillow fort, right?)

Someone Destroyed My Rocket Ship and Other Havoc I Have Witnessed at the Office

This book is about life at work and how to survive in a corporate environment.

Your Seat Cushion is a Flotation Device and Other Buoyant Short Stories

This book reveals how so many things around us are there to support us.

A Spectacular Catastrophe and Other Things I Recommend

This book tells how the worst, hardest, and most catastrophic moments of your life will be your greatest lessons.

Amateur: an Inexpert, Inexperienced, Unauthoritative, Enamored View of Life

This book is a collection of essays about life, love and grief.

How to be Ferociously Happy

Happiness is so much about perspective. My hope is that this book gives you a different point of view.