Every book begins with a belief most of us have never questioned.
Every book ends with a new way of seeing it.
What I Thought Love Required
What It Cost Me. What I Choose Now.
Some beliefs arrive quietly.
Be useful. Be agreeable. Be less than you really are. Need less. Carry more. Hold it together.
Most of us never question them.
What I Thought Love Required explores the invisible beliefs we inherit before we're old enough to question them, and the long, often ordinary process of learning to let them go.
This isn't a book about finding love.
It's about discovering you were never meant to earn it.
Available August 4, 2026
What I Thought Loss Meant
The Things I Couldn't Keep. The Life That Remained.
Most people think loss begins with goodbye.
But loss has been shaping us long before we recognize its name.
What I Thought Loss Meant explores the invisible ways that loss shapes us long before we know what to call it, and the long, often ordinary process of discovering what remains.
This isn't a book about getting over loss.
It's about discovering that what you've been carrying isn't only grief.
It might also be love.
Coming December 2026
Also from Jesse Sloane Studio
Coloring Through the Noise
For the Person Who Has Been Holding It Together While Quietly Falling Apart
You don't need a perfect plan. You need one small win.
This is a memoir about what happens when a high-functioning life quietly unravels and the surprisingly simple thing that helped put it back together. Not a workbook. Not a traditional coloring book. A memoir that moves through five phases of rebuilding — regulation, identity, joy, ownership, and becoming — one honest chapter and one finished page at a time.
Because completion teaches your brain something anxiety never can. I can start. I can stay. I can finish.
Coloring Through the Noise: The Companion Coloring Book
Thirty-two full-page illustrations designed to accompany the memoir.
Each image was created to match the emotional tone of its chapter — simpler when you're overwhelmed, more layered when you're ready for more. Use it alongside the memoir for a seamless experience, or on its own as a quiet creative practice.
You don't need to be artistic. You just need to show up for the page.