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- Herausgeber: Livia Emerson
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
What if your calm isn’t strength — but self-protection you’ve carried for far too long?
If you grew up learning to stay quiet, to stay agreeable, to stay “fine” no matter what was breaking inside you, this book will feel like a mirror held gently to your truth.
Toxic Calm is the name for that silent, lifelong habit of appearing okay even when your heart is exhausted.
It’s the smile you wear when you’re hurting.
The “I’m fine” you whisper when you’re drowning.
The emotional armor you built to stay loved, accepted, and safe.
In these pages, Livia Emerson unravels the hidden cost of being the strong one — the one who never complains, never asks for help, never breaks the peace, even when the peace is breaking you. With lyrical honesty and unwavering compassion, she reveals:
✨ Why you learned to shrink your emotions to protect others
✨ How silence becomes a survival strategy that turns into identity
✨ The difference between true calm and emotional self-abandonment
✨ Why do you feel responsible for everyone but yourself
✨ How to stop earning love by disappearing
✨ How to return — gently, bravely — to the person you were before you learned to be quiet
This is not a book about becoming louder.
It’s a book about becoming real.
If you’ve spent a lifetime carrying what wasn’t yours, hiding what hurt, or performing a version of yourself that feels safer than the truth, Toxic Calm will help you step out of the quiet and back into your own voice.
A tender, piercing, liberating journey —
for the ones who look calm,
and the ones who are finally ready to stop pretending.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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Toxic Calm
The Silent Cost of Always Appearing Okay
The weight of silence and the mash of calm
by Livia Emerson
“In trying to look okay, you forgot where it hurts.”
© 2025 Livia Emerson. All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the publisher.
Introduction
About the Author
How to Use This Book
Chapter 1 — The Weight of Seeming Fine
Chapter 2 — When Calm Becomes a Habit You Can’t Break
Chapter 3 — The Loneliness of Being the Strong One
Chapter 4 — Where the Silence First Started
Chapter 5 — The Fear of Being “Too Much”
Chapter 6 — The Addiction to Not Needing Anything
Chapter 7 — When Peace Becomes More Important Than Truth
Chapter 8 — Carrying What Was Never Yours to Hold
Chapter 9 — The Quiet Belief That Love Must Be Earned
Chapter 10 — When Your Calm Becomes Who You Think You Are
The Moment You Return to Yourself
Final Sections
A Letter from Livia
Invitation to Reflect
Invitation to Review
Acknowledgments
Final Blessing
Stay Connected — And Keep Reading
Copyright Page
About the Author
Livia Emerson writes for the ones who hold everything in.For the quiet hearts, the tired minds, the people who learned to survive by softening their voice and strengthening their smile. Her work lives at the intersection of self-healing, emotional truth, and the kind of gentle honesty that feels like exhaling after years of holding your breath.
Before becoming an international self-help author, Livia spent years navigating her own emotional exhaustion — the silent kind, the invisible kind, the kind you hide behind competence and calm. She knows what it means to appear collected while carrying a storm under the skin. She knows the weight of never wanting to be a burden, of wanting to be “easy to love,” of shrinking herself to keep the peace.
These experiences shaped her voice: tender but unflinching, lyrical yet grounded, comforting without denying the hard parts of being human.Her writing doesn’t promise quick fixes or glossy optimism. Instead, it offers something far more radical: truth wrapped in gentleness, reflection without judgment, and the permission to feel without apologizing.
