Finding My Reasons to Breathe: Taming my anxious mind: self-awareness, exploration, and vulnerability.

by Jaime James

After hitting a low and contemplating suicide, I dig deep to try and figure myself out and find my reasons to keep living. This is one month of journal entries, reflection, and self awareness.Each section starts with me taking you into an experience with me. What I am thinking or feeling, inviting you into my head or into the room with me. Next, I give you a journal entry or sometimes multiple entries from my actual journal that I write in each day. Finally, I take the experience we just had and the words from the journal and create what I hope to be a relatable experience that you can either learn from or become inspired by. I discuss ideas and practical concepts as they arise and also use stories from my life as illustrations.

Ultimately, I hope this book speaks to you and moves you in some way. I hope to inspire growth and help you find more happiness and well-being through sharing my experiences, struggles, and victories. If my life does nothing else than help one person find their reason to breathe, I will consider it a life that was worth living.

Taming my anxious mind through self-awareness, practical philosophy, and vulnerability exercises.

172 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 16, 2022

About the author

Jaime James is an author who writes across genres, exploring themes of self-discovery, resilience, and the complexities of the human mind. Her nonfiction works, such as Finding My Reasons to Breathe, draw on personal reflections to inspire and connect with readers. In her fiction, James crafts thought-provoking stories that delve into mental health, identity, and the blurred lines between reality and perception.

Retired professional photographer, writer, philosopher, yogi, and real estate investor are a few of the titles associated with my name. But above all, I am a creative. I am a doer of things and try a lot of things.

You can expect to find various interests and topics in my writing, as is reflected in my life.

In my first book, Finding My Reasons to Breathe, I give you a glimpse into my life as I struggle to figure myself out through anxiety, depression, grief, and life altering experiences. It is a book of essays based on the journal I started writing the day after I decided to save my own life.

Unpack Your Anxiety contains practical advice and methods to manage anxiety and panic attacks.

Current works in progress: 3

Fiction: A young girl is locked in a mental hospital and comes out with some realizations about truth and lies.

Fiction: A woman is afflicted with strange episodes that take her deeper into her mind. Follow her as she tries to figure out what they are and falls deeper into herself.

Children’s Fiction: A coyote is tired of being pressured by his brothers to be something he is not, a squirrel killer. After kidnapping a squirrel in the woods he learns about the freedom of being himself.