Uncult: The Practice of Being Human - Paperback

by Courtney Thompson (Author), Jenifer Hoy (Editor), Nick Ferran (Cover Design by)

You already know.

The Sunday night dread. The marriage that doesn't fit. The life you built and can no longer sustain. The glass you pour a little earlier every night.

You got what you wanted.

You should be happy, right? Grateful, even?

Tomorrow. Next week. After (insert any time but now).

You were handed a script for a good life by every parent, school, church, and company that told you what to want. They trained you how to be from the outside in. Together, they operate like a cult. Now the algorithm runs the same script. It never sleeps. It was built that way.

This script became the stories you tell yourself.

You figured it was you. So you tried to fix you. (Yes, another book. I bought them all too.) Every fix agreed with the stories. None of it worked.

uncult is the practice of being human.

The way out is the way you got in, one minute at a time. You learn, maybe for the first time, how to keep a promise to yourself. You write your own script. When you lose it, you return.

You get your life back.

This book is for the person who did everything they were told and still feels like they're living someone else's life. The one at midlife asking whose life this is. The one who wants out of the rat race and doesn't know what comes after. If you've read the self-help, done the retreat, and ended up right back where you started, this is for you.

Courtney Thompson spent twenty years running the script in corporate America. She built a whole life to it. Then she built the practice to get out. She lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, with her son and three dogs.