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Tales From The Chair: The Hurt, The Haunted, The Healed and Everything In Between
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781966968658
Publisher: Owl Publishing Company
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is not a therapy textbook or a self-help manual
Tales From the Chair is a deeply human memoir told from inside the therapy room. Drawn from years of clinical work in counseling, addiction recovery, and trauma care, these composite stories offer an intimate, unfiltered look at the quiet moments where healing unfolds-slowly, imperfectly, and humanly.
In the quiet sanctuary of a therapist's office-where fluorescent hums fade into unspoken truths-J. Alexander invites readers into the raw heart of healing. Tales From the Chair is a collection of composite narratives drawn from years of clinical work: fractured couples rebuilding fragile bridges, addicts untangling survival, trauma survivors meeting their younger selves in the empty chair, and minds reshaped by injury finding clarity through metaphor.
These aren't case files-they're living vignettes, pulsing with the messiness of human resilience. From battlefield silences in couples therapy to the charged hallways of residential treatment, Alexander witnesses the quiet miracles that unfold when people choose change: criticism softening into curiosity, isolation loosening its grip, the haunted inching toward the healed.
Grounded in evidence-based wisdom yet written with poetic intimacy, each tale honors the courage of those who sit across the divide, reminding us that empathy transforms both client and clinician. For therapists and counseling students, this book is a lantern-an honest companion in work that can both illuminate and exhaust. For others, it reveals the hidden alchemy of therapy, where recovery meanders and metaphors speak what words cannot.
In a fractured world, Tales From the Chair affirms that healing is not a destination but an act of presence. With the honesty of a counselor shaped by the work, J. Alexander offers memoir as medicine-a testament to hope, connection, and the quiet power of showing up unguarded for one another.
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