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 so early you never think to question them.
Be useful. Be agreeable. Be less than you really were. Most of us build entire lives around these quiet instructions and call it love. This memoir traces the inherited beliefs that shaped a lifetime of earning something that was never supposed to be earned and what becomes possible when you finally stop.
This is not a book about finding love. It is about discovering you were never the one who needed to become more lovable.
[Available Soon]
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. Sometimes it arrives as a move, a friendship that quietly ends, a version of yourself you thought you left behind. This memoir traces the quiet ways loss has shaped a life and what was found waiting on the other side of each one.
This is not a book about getting over loss. It is about discovering what loss actually leaves behind.
[Coming 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.