A book by Bryan Jones
There Is Always
a Day Before.
Before every hard day, every diagnosis, every loss — there was a quieter day. A book for anyone whose mind lives a few hours ahead.
- Pages
- 248
- Audiobook
- 5h 42m
- Format
- Hardcover
About the book
A meditation on presence.
There Is Always a Day Before is a quiet, generous book about the lives we live in our heads — and the one we keep missing while we prepare for the next one.
Through short chapters and patient prose, Bryan Jones offers a way back to the moment you're standing in. It's a book for the worriers, the planners, the over-preparers; for the late-diagnosed and the long-tired; for the parents giving everything and the children still figuring out their own wiring.
You don't have to earn rest. You don't have to fix yourself first. Today is enough — and there is always, always a day before.
Sample chapter
Chapter One — Tomorrow's Weather
I have spent most of my life checking tomorrow's weather. Not the literal forecast — though that, too — but the emotional one. The meeting in three days. The trip in two weeks. The conversation I haven't had yet.
The strange thing about an anxious mind is that it believes it is helping you. It is, in its own breathless way, trying to keep you safe. The trouble is that it never arrives. There is always one more day to prepare for, one more contingency to rehearse, one more version of you that doesn't quite exist yet who needs protecting.
And while you are out there in tomorrow, today goes on without you.
Audiobook
Read aloud by the author.
Sample — Chapter One
4 min 12 sec • narrated by Bryan Jones
Reviews
What readers are saying.
"I read this in one sitting and immediately bought three copies for friends. It made me cry in the gentlest way."
"Bryan writes the way a good therapist talks — patient, specific, and never rushed. This is a book for the people who carry too much."
"Genuinely the first book about anxiety that didn't make me more anxious."
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