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Part Two
The breath in other rooms
Fifteen chapters of the book happen in recording booths. Then the kit leaves the studio. Each room below is a place the same handful of tools gets pointed somewhere new. You aren’t meant to read them in order, and you’re not meant to read all of them. The heaviest (grief, a newborn, a medical wait, money) say so at the top, so you can walk past them until you need them.
Chapter 16
The Line Before the Lift
Sport, competition, and esports
Open the room →Chapter 17The Night Before
Exams, interviews, auditions, pitches
Open the room →Chapter 18The Meeting That Won’t End
A workday with no seams in it
Open the room →Chapter 19Borrowed Weather
Caregiving and frontline work
Open the room →Chapter 20Three A.M.
Insomnia, low anxiety, and the waves a transition sends
Open the room →Chapter 21The Mat, Not the Microphone
Practice for its own sake
Open the room →Chapter 22The Conversation You’ve Been Avoiding
The highest-stakes take in the book
Open the room →Chapter 23The Empty Chair
On grief and loss
Open the room →Chapter 24The Baby Monitor
On new parenthood
Open the room →Chapter 25The Paper Gown
On medical procedures
Open the room →Chapter 26The Number on the Screen
On financial stress
Open the room →Chapter 27Smaller Rooms
Twenty short rooms
Open the room →Chapter 28Practicing It With Someone Else
Sharing it, safely
Open the room →