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English
Manuscripts
01 May 2026
What if the exhaustion you've been calling burnout is actually grief? Grief for the version of yourself you set down somewhere along the way to becoming who they needed you to be.

You did everything right. You earned the credentials, kept the peace, stayed late, made the sacrifices. You built a career inside institutions that promised meaning and delivered erasure. Now you're tired in a way sleep doesn't touch, and you're starting to suspect the problem isn't your resilience.

It isn't. And there is a way home.

Home Free is an eight-session coaching journey for the mid-career professional who knows something has to change. Part memoir, part field guide, it draws on nearly two decades inside mission-driven and corporate organizations-and the hard-won practice of finding the way back to yourself. You'll work with the Five Elements of Home (Ground, Warmth, Space, Light, and Threshold), polarity-based both/and thinking, and the equation at the heart of the work: HOME + TOUGHNESS = FREEDOM.

This is not a book about hustling harder, optimizing your morning, or pretending it's fine. It's a book about coming home to yourself in systems that have spent years trying to get you gone-and learning to stay.

You don't need to be tougher. You need to come home.

Sharon Blackborow is an ICF-certified leadership coach with executive certifications from Georgetown University in Leadership Coaching and Polarity & Paradox Management. Home Free is the first book in a trilogy on home, relationships, and leadership.
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Imprint:   Manuscripts
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   218g
ISBN:   9798901021262
Pages:   184
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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