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The Permission Slip: A Field Guide to Stopping the Performance and Surviving Your Own Life
Paperback
Series: The Work of Living, Book 2
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: A M Lavender Press
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For anyone living with high-functioning anxiety, burnout, or emotional exhaustion - this book is for you.
In The Permission Slip, A M Lavender speaks to the capable, responsible, high-achieving person who is quietly unraveling behind the scenes.
You're functioning. You're productive. You show up.
But inside, you're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix.
Following his memoir The Truth I Found in the Silence, which explored collapse and addiction, Lavender turns to what comes after the breaking point: burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, boundary-setting, and rebuilding without performance.
Blending personal narrative with trauma-informed tools and practical reflection, this book explores:
- High-functioning anxiety and depression
- Chronic stress and nervous system shutdown
- People-pleasing and perfectionism
- Soft addictions and dopamine dependence
- Religious and family performance patterns
- Emotional burnout and recovery
Each chapter includes a Field Guide with realistic, trauma-aware practices designed to help readers regulate stress, reduce overwhelm, and step out of survival mode - without toxic positivity, productivity pressure, or fix yourself messaging.
This is not a quick-fix self-help book.
It's a grounded guide for anyone who feels stuck in performance mode and wants to recover their life without losing themselves in the process.
You are not broken.
You may simply be carrying too much - for too long.
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