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You Can Just Leave & You Can Just Ask: Two Deeply Unqualified Guides to the Permission You Never Needed
Paperback
Series: Oddly Comforting Collection
ISBN13: 9781971604206
Publisher: Creative Scribbles, LLC
Published: Jul 29 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two funny little books about the two hardest small things: Leaving and Asking.
Some people can walk out of a party without narrating a podcast in the doorway. Some people can ask a stranger where the capers are. This humorous self-help gift book is for the rest of us - the over-thinkers, the people-pleasers, the champions of no worries if not!
You Can Just Leave & You Can Just Ask pairs two deeply unqualified guides into one oddly comforting read. The first is about exits, escapes, and the door that was always unlocked - the meeting that stopped fitting, the group chat that hasn't been fun since a previous administration, the job you keep describing as fine. The second is about four small words (Can you help me?) and the elaborate, invisible tax we pay to avoid them.
Warm, wry, and quietly freeing, this is a perfect feel-good gift for the anxious over-achiever, the recovering people-pleaser, the introvert in your life, or yourself at the end of a long week. If you have ever waited for a permission that was never coming - to go, or to want - this one's for you.
Readers who like gentle, observational humor will feel right at home. Delightfully unnecessary. Surprisingly meaningful.
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