Will Craig

No, thank you.

So,

Why I wrote it, funny enough, was a challenge of a friend.

So I had been blogging for years.

And when I was blogging, it would just be something that's been brewing in my mind.

Sit down one night.

read it, we're good, post it the next day, maybe edit it real quick in the morning and call it a day.

And I didn't think I had the discipline, frankly, to like sit down and write a full book.

And then a friend of mine who happens to be a full-time author kind of challenged me.

He's like, yes, you can.

You just are viewing it the wrong way.

You're seeing it as I can only write in these bursts.

You have to look at it from the full picture.

If you just took a couple of years of your blog, you can have a book.

So that's where that sat as far as like where it came from.

But it really, to me, was cathartic because it got to take the last four or five years of writing that I had done and really contemplating everything I am about as a person and putting it all into one cohesive story to really tell people where I've been, what I've learned, and why this is so important.

To care about your mental health, to care about your experiences.

These things matter.

To me, it's taking that pause, as you said, for all of us.

In those heightened moments, in the moments of high stress, high anxiety, or it can be the dark side, the depression side, whatever the case may be, it's taking that pause before you make any decisions, before you go down the rabbit hole, take a deep breath, take it all in.