A book for finding a little more room
Room for Yourself Again
A quieter kind of change
By Helen Wrenford
You can spend years being the reliable one, the capable one, the person who makes things work for everybody else.
Room for Yourself Again is about the habits that stay with us, the expectations we grow around, and the small decisions that make everyday life feel a little more like our own.
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A book about the things we carry without noticing.
Some habits begin because they make life easier. We learn to keep the peace, explain ourselves, manage other people's feelings and quietly put certain wants aside.
Years later, circumstances may have changed, but some of those habits remain.
Across sixteen chapters, Room for Yourself Again looks at what happens when we begin to notice them. Through everyday observations and fictional characters, it explores family, friendship, guilt, money, ageing, relationships and the possibility of doing a few things differently.
There are no promises of an entirely new life. Just some thoughtful company for the one you're already living.
Inside the book
Sixteen chapters about ordinary moments that can tell us a great deal.
Part One
How You Got Here
The habits we learn early, the roles we grow into, and the reasons we sometimes struggle to say what we want.
Part Two
What You're Still Carrying
Family expectations, familiar relationships, complicated feelings and the stories we've told ourselves for years.
Part Three
The Clumsy Years
The awkwardness of saying no, making friends, navigating relationships and noticing what our minds and bodies are telling us.
Part Four
Taking the Good Chair
Money, pleasure, old rules, new decisions and making room for the things that matter in ordinary life.
A little from the book
You've been doing this for so long that you don't hear yourself do it.
That half-second is the part to pay attention to.
One book. Two ways to read.
Every purchase includes both editions, so you can choose whichever feels more comfortable.
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A traditional book layout with comfortable spacing and beautifully typeset pages. Ideal for reading on a computer, laptop or tablet.
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A version specially formatted for a smaller screen, with a narrower page layout designed for reading on your phone.
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Room for Yourself Again
Helen Wrenford
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