It Only Feels Real
Rethinking emotion, meaning, and the reality you live.
Some experiences feel heavier than they should. A moment lingers. A thought repeats. A reaction feels stronger than the situation seems to call for.
It's easy to assume something needs fixing. It Only Feels Real takes a different path. Instead of trying to change what you feel, it looks at how that feeling was formed, and as that becomes clear, the same situations start to feel different. This isn't a book of quick fixes. It's about seeing something that may have been there all along.
A companion workbook, The Reality Lab, helps you carry these shifts gently into everyday life.
By Bahar A. Moreau, certified MBSR and MBCT teacher.
What you'll take away
A preview of the ideas. Final chapters and details coming soon.
See clearly
Understand how your emotions and reactions are built, so they quietly lose their grip on you.
Suffer less
Not by forcing calm or positive thinking, but by understanding what's really happening underneath.
Live more freely
Meet the same old situations with a new steadiness, and more room to choose your response.
The Reality Lab
Knowing is not the same as changing. The Reality Lab is the companion workbook to It Only Feels Real, where what you understand becomes the slow, patient work that makes it yours.
- Six field experiments, each a way to meet the moments you usually walk past
- Each page becomes a record of what you noticed
- The record itself helps hold the practice in place
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