No Shortcuts: The 10 Non-negotiables of Wellbeing - Paperback

by Adam Tibble (Author), Oli Mittermaier (Author)

Oli Mittermaier and Adam Tibble have treated patients in severe psychological distress at CIT Clinics in the Bay Area for over a decade. Most arrive after years - sometimes decades - of conventional treatments that haven't worked.

At CIT Clinics, the approach is comprehensive: ketamine therapy paired with integration, group work, and structured follow-up. And it works. The neurological windows open. Suffering loosens. For the first time in years, healing becomes possible.

And then most patients go home - to lives that have no infrastructure to hold what's just been opened. The window closes back up. Often within weeks.

This book is about what's missing - and how to build it.

After thousands of clinical hours, the pattern stabilized at ten things - none of them clinical, none of them billable, all of them required: Sleep. Movement. Food. Self-care. Home. Admin. Connection. Purpose. Service. Joy.

No Shortcuts is a working manual for the infrastructure of getting well - and staying well. It explains the neuroscience behind each non-negotiable, helps you locate yourself honestly in each domain, and lays out the four behavior-change principles that make new habits actually take.

The path exists. The walls are clearly marked. You just have to start walking.