A Big Change: Doing Something Meaningful, Together
Editor’s note (2026): This book is now titled Built This Way: Why Painful Patterns Repeat and How to Change Them. It publishes October 22, 2026. Early support still matters — join the Launch Team for updates, excerpts, and simple ways to help.
Last week, I shared something important: The Healing Mindset is finally back on track with a new publisher.
This shift feels meaningful — not just for me personally, but for the message the book carries.
Lately, I've noticed the emotional temperature online rising. Anger is everywhere. Shadow leaking out in every direction. People are hurting. We're reacting instead of relating.
And yet… wouldn't it feel better to cool down?
Not just because peace feels better than agitation, but because anger has never solved the personal or collective problems we're facing. In moments like these, we need tools that help us regulate, reflect, connect, and heal.
That's the whole purpose of The Healing Mindset.
At its heart, it's a book about attunement — how we can learn to relate to ourselves, to others, and to our circumstances with more presence, compassion, and awareness. When we do that, everything begins to change downstream: our stress patterns, our relationships, even our health and sense of meaning.
It's a deeply personal book too. I share stories from my own life and from decades of work with clients, showing how awareness transforms real people in real situations.
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A small group of people who actually practice and tell one person can move this book farther than a loud launch ever could. If that’s you, you’re invited.
— Dr. Mark Pirtle