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HOW NOT TO LOSE YOUR MIND

Satirical Self-Help Books for the Emotionally Exhausted – and Quietly Rebellious

 

Burnout Recovery with Humor. No Coaching. No Bullshit. Just Books that Know.

Satirical survival guides & soulful workbooks for a world that's gone mad.

Two book series for the half-awake and the quietly rebellions.

HOW TO COME BACK TO YOU

A quietly rebellious book series for self-explorers, misfits and the emotionally tired. 

No coaching. No forced positivity. Just raw truth und uncomfortable questions - wrapped in a 30-day challenge format.

Each book is interactive, immersive and designed to reconnect you with yourself. One page per day. One step at the time.

After 30 days, you'll see clearer - and feel more like you again.

Maybe for the first time in a long time.

A book series for inner awakening, self-connection and quiet rebellion

Soulful self-help book for emotinally exhausted people- 30-day reconnection journey

Me. Enough. Now.

Funny survival guide book for modern couples - quietly rebellious and honest
Funny survival guide book for modern couples - quietly rebellious and honest

Me. You. Us?

Emotional deep dive for couples facing parenthood – 30-day journey to explore fears, hopes and truth before a baby arrives

Are. We. Ready?

Books

HOW TO DEAL WITH "NORMAL"

This is not a healing journey. It’s a survival guide.

Satirical books for those quietly screaming into pillows - from the madness of bureaucracy, to the misery of overpriced rentals.
No coping tools, no affirmations – just razor-sharp reflection, dark humour, and painfully familiar chaos.
These books won’t fix your life. But they’ll make you feel seen.
And maybe that’s the first step to not losing your mind.

A book series of satirical survival guides for the half-awake and slightly derangend

Satirical self-help book about the absurd housing market and our helpless desperation within it

Rent it. Ghost it. Kill it.

Satirical reflection on bureaucracy and absurd systems in everyday life

Just another day in the system

Darkly funny survival guide through burnout, bureaucracy and modern collapse

Work now. Sleep later. Bleed forever.

READER'S VOICE

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I laughed. I cringed. I considered cancelling my next apartment viewing. The book is emotional equivalent of moving boxesthrown down the stairwell. Brutal, funny, and too real. 10/10 would recommend to anyone still pretending renting is just temporary.

JULES M.,
READER

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There's poetry in this madness - the kind you wisper into your broken intercom at 2am. Read it if your rental contract feels more committed than your last relationship

BRYAN W.,
BOOK ENTHUSIAST

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Finally a book that doesn't try to fix you- it just sits next to you and lights the fuse. Made me laugh at things I probably shouldn't. But if you ever creid in a furnished apartment with gray laminate floors, this is for you

SYBILLE N., LITERATURE LOVER

In The Press

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

or: Who I had to become to write this

Portrait of Euphemia van Dame - satirical author and emotinal survival guide creator

Hi, I’m Euphemia van Dame.

No – that’s not my real name. It’s the one I chose. A name that carries the depth

of my thoughts, the weight of my lived truth, and the voice of women before me.

It wasn’t given to me.

I claimed it.

Because the moment I started writing,

I also started remembering.

I never planned to write books.

I planned to survive.

To keep up. To play along. To smile. To function.

Until one day, I didn't.

The truth is: something broke. 

Quietly. Invisibly.

The kind of breaking that doesn't make a sound – because the world is too loud

to hear it anyway.

I didn't need advice. I needed silence.

I didn’t need more tips.

I needed to remember who I was before I started disappearing.

That’s why I write.

Not to teach. Not to fix.

But to remind you of what you already know.

To offer you a mirror when yours got buried in noise.

If you’ve ever felt like the world is too much, too fast, too fake –

and you’re not quite sure where you went in all of it...

…then this aren’t just books. It’s a remembering.

“I’m not here to sell you healing. I’m here to cut through your numbness.”

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