The Still Point

Elisa Perissinotto

Small books about what carries us away from ourselves, and the road home.

Cover of Staying Whole

Staying Whole

Finding your way out of love addiction and learning to love without disappearing

Coming this fall

It’s almost midnight. You’ve turned the screen facedown on the nightstand and told yourself that this time you’ll hold out; then your hand moves before you do, because your body knows the road by heart.

That hunger has a name: love addiction. It doesn’t come from a flaw in your character. It looks like too much love, but it’s an old hunger that learned the wrong road to quiet itself, and you gave it his name.

No one will ask you to love less. Only to stop disappearing while you love.

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Staying Whole opens the “Return to the Self” series: short books, each about a different way we learn to lose ourselves, and the way back.

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