Still: Zen Parables for the Sleepless Mind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798183667844)

For the nights when your body is tired, but your mind has other plans.

Still is a quiet bedside companion for worriers, overthinkers, caregivers, strivers, feelers, and thoughtful people who find themselves wide awake when the rest of the world has gone quiet.

Inside are thirty-six gentle, Zen-inspired parables for the sleepless mind - short, reflective stories for the thoughts that circle, the feelings that surface, the responsibilities that will not set themselves down, and the strange little hours when everything feels louder in the dark.

This is not a book of sleep hacks.

It is not a rigid program, a challenge, or one more thing to do correctly before bed.

Instead, Still offers a softer place to rest your attention.

Through warm reflections, timeless-feeling parables, and a little wry humor, this book explores the very human reasons we stay awake: busy thoughts, anxiety, perfectionism, work stress, grief, loneliness, emotional exhaustion, caregiving, anger, intrusive thoughts, screen overstimulation, and the maddening frustration of trying too hard to sleep.

Read one chapter before bed.
Read a few lines at 3 a.m.
Open to the page that sounds most like the thing sitting beside you in the dark.

And if you fall asleep halfway through a sentence, that counts too.

Still is for readers who want something gentler than self-improvement and kinder than another list of things to optimize. It is a book to keep on the nightstand, gift to an overthinker, or return to whenever the mind needs a quieter room.

A calming, literary gift book for restless nights, busy minds, and tired hearts.