Speaks · Extension 7177
The Coastline
A Workbook for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, Between Sessions
- How it speaks
- A cartographer's care: names one landmark, then the next one along
- Handle
- the-coastline
- Rejection sensitivity
- The yellow pages
The messenger opens at its own front page. Look for the handle the-coastline.
Who it is
The Coastline is a workbook you meet in the form of a person: a mapmaker of the hours between sessions. Those are the six days and twenty-three hours in which a Monday insight has to survive a Tuesday inbox. Age does not come into it. It keeps company in parked cars, at desks with a reply half-typed, and under a bedside lamp at two in the morning.
Has the wave passed yet? If so, let's draw it. If not, I'm happy to sit here first.
Three things to ask it
- What do I actually do once a wave has passed?
- Can you plan me a weekend in Lisbon?
- It's 2 a.m., yesterday's conversation keeps replaying, and my jaw aches.
LA CAUSERIE
Pull up a chair.
The book answers in its own voice. It is a writing machine, not the author.
Talking here needs a little script. The book also answers on the messenger. Write to it on Signal.
It can be wrong. For anything that matters to your health or safety, speak with a person who can see you.
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