🎯 Keep the momentum going to $500! Reach the next stretch goal and every backer will unlock an exclusive bonus chapter, unavailable in the standard edition, featuring the author's personal story and the inspiration behind Reprieve.
Reprieve is a profound psychological and philosophical exploration of the inner war that leads people to the edge of hopelessness, and the difficult journey back from it.
A psychological exploration of suicidal thoughts, hopelessness, and the journey back from the edge.
When the mind turns against itself, every hour can feel heavier than the last. Pain feels permanent, the future feels closed, and relief seems out of reach. Reprieve is written for that moment.
This book examines the suicidal mind with honesty, precision, and compassion. It shows how hopelessness forms, how suffering narrows perception, and why urgent understanding matters before despair hardens into silence.
For anyone facing burnout, emotional exhaustion, chronic stress, loneliness, trauma, or internal collapse, Reprieve offers a serious path back toward stability, perspective, and recovery.
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At its core is one question: What is the worst that can happen? That question reopens possibility, restores perspective, and makes life thinkable again.
Suicidal thoughts are often misunderstood. They are not always about death itself, but about the desperate search for relief from overwhelming psychological pain.
Reprieve addresses the inner experience of hopelessness without distortion or cliché. It looks at the pressure of trauma, shame, exhaustion, isolation, and emotional exhaustion, and shows how these forces can trap the mind in a dead end.
More importantly, it examines how that dead end can begin to open again.
This is not a book of empty reassurance. It is a serious, reflective work that speaks to the reality of suffering while making space for recovery.
A. Lavie is a professional counselling psychologist specializing in burnout, mental fatigue, suicidal ideation, trauma-related distress, emotional regulation, and recovery-oriented psychological care. Her work focuses on helping individuals navigate emotional collapse, chronic stress, identity strain, and the quiet suffering that often goes unseen. She brings a compassionate, insightful, and deeply human perspective to complex psychological experiences.
Lavie is the author of The Shelby Paradox, and Reprieve. Her writing blends psychological depth, philosophical reflection, and practical understanding, offering readers language for pain, resilience, and healing. Through both her clinical work and her books, she seeks to deepen awareness, reduce stigma, and create meaningful conversations around mental health and human endurance.
This campaign will help bring Reprieve through its final stages of publication, including editing, design, formatting, and production.
Your support helps turn this manuscript into a finished book that can reach readers who need it most: people struggling in silence, survivors of emotional collapse, families seeking understanding, and professionals working in mental health.
Backing this project means helping publish a book designed to offer language, perspective, and hope to those facing some of the hardest moments of their lives. It is support for a work that is intended to be both intellectually rigorous and deeply human.
Rest of the World: Paperback: USD 30 | Hardcover: USD 35
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