You nailed it: I think of my work as self-help adjacent. Or like, what if social philosophy and critical theory did self-help?
I love what you wrote here: "So while my book wasn’t supposed to be self-help per se I did write it towards (and maybe for) the person who needed some connections between how they felt about the world and themselves." Having lived the last decade in towns that fit The City Authentic vibe, your book connected the growing disillusionment I felt about these places that had once been so attractive to me. And that connection was as much about "place" as it was about personal "identity." I learned something about what I was seeking when I moved to these towns and about why those towns registered as what I sought (even if they came up short in the end).
You nailed it: I think of my work as self-help adjacent. Or like, what if social philosophy and critical theory did self-help?
I love what you wrote here: "So while my book wasn’t supposed to be self-help per se I did write it towards (and maybe for) the person who needed some connections between how they felt about the world and themselves." Having lived the last decade in towns that fit The City Authentic vibe, your book connected the growing disillusionment I felt about these places that had once been so attractive to me. And that connection was as much about "place" as it was about personal "identity." I learned something about what I was seeking when I moved to these towns and about why those towns registered as what I sought (even if they came up short in the end).