We have reissued the book that was originally published as Autonomic Compass: Finding Home in Your Nervous System with updated cover and some edits. (Among other reasons having two products called Autonomic Compass was confusing people…)
This is essentially a simplified manual of autonomics: a generalist overview. It’s a book that you can give to someone who has very little technical interest in the intricacies of autonomic physiology, but rather wants a broad brush sense of why this stuff matters. Chapters are brief and to the point. Lots of analogies. (Neuroception as the snail, primary autonomic states as water, nervous system as inward forest, color theory model of neuroception, neurology, neurochemistry, etc.)
I wrote it after The Neurobiology of Connection to respond to a number of people (including my mother) who were like, Yeah, but I don’t want to read 550 pages about this stuff….
I think this version is more beautiful than the prior version, and that’s an important metric for me.
Paperback, 154 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, full-color illustrations