Böcker av Christopher Gajewski

After almost taking my life, I decided to start talking and keep talking. It's a long story, all contained in my podcast and website--and now in this book. After 51 years, I decided to stop living a life of quiet desperation. I chose to live it out loud, and maybe help others do the same. So, I started talking and ask others to do the same. --and start listening. I want to challenge the stigma surrounding mental health as I discuss my journey with authenticity and compassion. And even some humor. Depression, anxiety, PTSD and the effects of childhood trauma are so misunderstood, by both people struggling and their loved ones. I attempt to shed some light on the topics, articulate what others might find difficult to express. As I say in my podcast, I am not a psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist or any profession that ends in -ist. I am just a guy who has been there and may be there now. I'm still not doing it right, but I am finally on the right path. You are welcome to follow along on my journey.

In 2020, The Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world like a tsunami, uprooting the anchors that create our identities. With his marriage in shambles, Christopher Gajewski was already adrift. He had sold his business, listed his house, and planned to take refuge overseas-from what his friends and family called a midlife crisis. The lockdown changed everything. Upset that the world's existential dilemma was interfering with his own, he finally shook free of the Covid Hibernation and set off across America...and into himself. Instead of diving into the Adriatic surf, he plunged into a unique and sleeping America. This book is a chronicle of that odyssey: 152 days on the road, to all 50 states, almost 40,000 miles, and lots of coffee as he wandered into America and himself.