Relentless news cycles. Ragebait. Doomscrolling. Personal trauma and unresolved suffering.

It’s never been harder to keep from melting down.

With humor and heart, author Samala Smayed opens up about her own traumas and her imperfect road to coming to terms with them. Rejecting the empty promises of toxic positivity and hollow therapy-speak, she offers a more human path: one that admits life without pain is impossible, but insists we can limit the suffering we pass on to others. 

We don’t have to live like a “trauma-kazi.”

We can curb the freakouts. We can stop trauma dumping on unsuspecting friends and partners. We’ll still lose it from time to time, but we can do it with a little more grace–for ourselves and the ones we love.

It’s time to start owning our shit. 

Perfect for readers of Mark Manson, Mel Robbins and Gary John Bishop, I Love You... but Own Your Sh*t! is a real-talk guide to a better (not perfect!) you, written with wit, warmth and compassion.

See her companion book From Survival to Possibility: An Introduction to the Ecologies of Mindfulness Framework