The Dissolve

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A Simple Method for Dissolving What Holds You Back

Laurie McGinley

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Via Lucent
06 February 2026

Office & workplace; Advice on careers & achieving success

The Dissolve is a concise guide for high-performing professionals who feel stuck despite their intelligence, experience, and capacity. It is written for people who are still functioning, still achieving, and still showing up-yet quietly sense that something that used to work no longer does.

Many readers of this book have relied on effort, discipline, urgency, and personal responsibility to build meaningful careers and lives. Those strategies once helped them succeed. Over time, however, pressure can begin to produce diminishing returns. Motivation feels heavier. Creativity narrows. The familiar ability to push through resistance starts to falter. It falters not because something is broken, but because the nervous system has been carrying too much for too long.

The Dissolve offers a different way forward.

Rather than encouraging readers to push harder, think differently, or fix themselves, this book introduces a gentle, embodied method for releasing the internal patterns that keep people trapped in cycles of burnout, overdrive, and self-protection. These, often invisible, patterns are not flaws. They are adaptive responses that once helped ensure safety, survival, and success under demanding conditions.

The method presented in The Dissolve focuses on working with the nervous system instead of against it. By learning to recognize when internal protective responses are shaping behavior, perception, and decision-making, readers begin to soften their relationship to effort and control. As safety is restored at a felt level, new options naturally become available without force or coercion.

Throughout the book, readers are guided through a simple, three-part orientation that helps them identify what is actually holding them back, regulate their internal experience, and gently normalize a future self that no longer organizes around constant pressure. The emphasis is not on changing who someone is, but on returning to a more natural rhythm of responsiveness, creativity, and sustainable action.

This is not a productivity system.

It is not a motivational program.

It is not a mindset hack.

The Dissolve is written to be regulating as it is read, with language and pacing designed to reduce cognitive load and invite presence. The goal is not to persuade, but to help readers recognize themselves-and to feel less alone in experiences that are often private and difficult to name.

For leaders, creators, and professionals who sense that pushing harder is no longer the answer, The Dissolve provides a calm, trustworthy framework for understanding what has been happening and for moving forward with greater clarity and ease.

You are not broken.

You are not behind.

You are responding to conditions that have changed.

This book offers a way to meet those conditions differently.

By: Laurie McGinley
Imprint: Via Lucent
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 186g
ISBN: 9798992732924
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 06 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurie McGinley is a best-selling author, transformation guide, consultant, and keynote speaker who helps high-performing, ambitious people dissolve the invisible barriers that keep them stuck. Her work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, identity, leadership, and human potential, supporting founders, executives, creatives, and world-changing humans who are tired of burning out on their own brilliance. McGinley is the creator of The Dissolve, a practical, body-based framework for shifting patterns that no longer serve, without force, pressure, or self-abandonment. Her approach emphasizes awareness, regulation, and rehearsal, allowing people to move through challenge with clarity, rhythm, and presence rather than reactivity. She is a Licensed NeuroChangeSolutions Consultant and has spent years studying, practicing, and embodying the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza. Meditation, mental rehearsal, and nervous-system regulation are not abstract concepts to her; they are lived disciplines woven into her personal life and professional practice. Before becoming a transformation guide, Laurie was a Division I distance runner, a communicator, a strategist, and a licensed architect. While she no longer practices architecture, the training deeply informs her work, especially her ability to see structure, pattern, and leverage where others see overwhelm. Her own lived experience of collapse, rebuilding, and transformation shaped the foundation of The Dissolve. McGinley works with individuals, teams, and organizations through one-on-one consulting, immersive workshops, and The Dissolve Year, her signature yearlong program. She is known for her clarity, presence, and ability to create spaces where real change can happen without spectacle or force. She lives with her family and continues to practice The Dissolve in her own life through running, meditation, and creative work. Learn more at thedissolve.me.

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A Simple Method for Dissolving What Holds You Back

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