WHAT IF E-book — A Quiet Return to Being

WHAT IF · A quiet return to being

What if I had stayed.
What if I changed everything.
What if it all goes wrong.

Our what ifs pull us backwards into the lives we did not live, and forwards into the ones we keep postponing. Both lead away from the only place life actually happens: here, now.

This book won’t ask you to silence your what ifs. They are not the enemy. They are messengers, and WHAT IF teaches you to read them.

What you will leave with

• A letter that closes the door on one old regret, and keeps what it was trying to tell you
• One small step toward the life you keep postponing, taken within 72 hours instead of “someday”
• A thirty-second practice for coming back to the present, yours for life

Inside

• The What If Inventory: ten minutes to find the pattern behind your what ifs
• I · The Past: What if I had… What regret is really saying
• II · The Future: What if I changed… The art of falling upward
• III · The Present: What if I simply BE? Ma, the space between, and arriving
• Three guided practices, each with an example and space to write
• My own handwritten letter to the life I didn’t live
• A seven-day journal, one page a day
• When it’s 3am: a page for the nights a what if won’t let go
• One month later: a page to come back to and see what has moved
• Three of my black-and-white photographs

42 pages · PDF for phone, tablet or print · Instant delivery to your inbox

By Iris Friesewinkel, photographer and author of Insane Enough to Be Free, written in the Arctic light of the Lofoten Islands.

“Some parts touched me so deeply that I was crying.”
— Claire E., sailor

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