Staying Whole
Finding your way out of love addiction and loving without disappearing
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 way 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 a hunger that learned the wrong way 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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Where that hunger learned the wrong way, what it was really asking for, and how a woman walks back into a house that was always hers.
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It follows the book chapter by chapter: four or five invitations, and under each one the lines to answer by hand, in the evening, with a pen. No one reads these pages. They are your room.
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Two paperbacks made to sit next to each other: one to read, one to write in. You don’t need the first to use the second, and you can start with either.
Staying Whole opens the “Return to the Self” series: short books, each about a different way we learn to lose ourselves, and the road back.
The Sacred Boundary
Healthy boundaries for empathic and highly sensitive women
“Sure, I’ll take care of it.” It’s out of your mouth before you’ve even thought about it. And even as you say it, you know you don’t want to.
Feeling is your way of loving the world. But as a little girl you learned that your space didn’t count, and that closing your door wasn’t loving. So you lifted that door off its hinges, and ever since, anyone can walk right in, at any hour.
A boundary puts you back in the place where you decide who comes in, and when.
out October 22
Scenes you’ll recognize: the yes that leaves your lips before you’ve decided anything, the person at your threshold who takes up all the room, the hard week after your first no, and the guilt that shows up right on time every evening.
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out October 22
It follows the book through all fifteen chapters: four prompts per chapter, with lines beneath each prompt for writing by hand in the evening. There’s no right answer, and no hurry.
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About the author
Since childhood, Elisa Perissinotto has sought to know the Divine through direct experience. After a degree in literature and a master’s in cultural anthropology, she traveled for ten years across Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, studying yoga, meditation, and holistic healing. Today she is a therapist, yoga teacher, writer, and mother.
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