✍🏽 Intro Paragraph for the “Book Projects” Page

Words are not the end—they are the beginning.
This space is a window into what’s unfolding next: two companion works that expand the inquiry begun in Chronically Under and Over Touched™. These projects explore the interior costs of performance, the spiritual tension of presence, and the systems that shape how we touch—and are touched—by the world around us.

Each book holds its own pulse. One calls us inward (SurrenderMe™). The other dares us to name what’s been avoided (The Tensions of Touch™). Together, they trace a path through rupture, remembrance, and radical return.

📖 Announcement Draft: SurrenderMe™: It Takes Heart to Live!

Coming in 2026

This is not a book about fixing yourself. It is a journey into remembering who you were before the world taught you to forget.
SurrenderMe™ is a soulful, truth-telling reflection on what it takes to live—not just survive—when the world rewards performance, detachment, and speed. Through story, spiritual inquiry, and systemic insight, Dr. Simona L. Brickers invites readers into a sanctuary of presence, where surrender is not giving up—but turning inward, listening deeply, and living with heart.

This book dares to ask:

  • What happens when we stop striving and start surrendering?

  • How do we sit with the unknown, the unfinished, and the uncomfortable—without needing to fix or flee?

  • Can we learn to stand in love, not as performance, but as practice?

Written for those navigating personal unraveling, cultural disillusionment, or the quiet ache of transformation, SurrenderMe™ is both an offering and a call. A call to feel, to heal, and to live from the inside out.

🕊️ Announcement Draft: The Tensions of Touch™: Naming What Can No Longer Be Ignored

Coming in 2027

What does it mean to touch—and be touched—in a world shaped by systems of avoidance, control, and curated connection?
The Tensions of Touch™ is a powerful follow-up to Chronically Under and Over Touched™, diving deeper into the layered, lived, and politicized realities of human connection. Where its predecessor named the hidden politics of neglect and overreach, this book illuminates the emotional, cultural, and ancestral costs of detachment—and the resistance work of reclaiming touch in its truest sense.

We explore:

  • How systemic detachment becomes internalized as self-doubt, numbness, and emotional fatigue.

  • The spiritual and communal ruptures of historical amnesia—and what it takes to repair them.

  • Why authentic connection often feels dangerous in a world that profits from our division.

  • What it might mean to touch with consent, care, complexity—and without agenda.

The Tensions of Touch™ is a reverent, unflinching, and restorative text for those yearning to feel again—and to name what we’ve been trained to ignore.