WHEN NOTHING NUMBS ANYMORE
Orientation in a Frayed World
Volume 3 of the series "Between the Years - Texts on Orientation"
This book begins where outer certainties no longer hold –
and where many start to reinvent themselves, even though something quite different is needed.
It tells of roles that once provided stability,
and of the moment when they lose their effect.
Not as a crisis – but as a quiet transition.
This book is not a guide.
It offers no instructions, no exercises, no promises.
It offers orientation – through language, experience and resonance.
✨ What this book gives the reader
• A deep understanding of inner states in which old identities no longer carry
• Relief from the pressure to redefine or “optimise” oneself
• Orientation in phases of emptiness, standstill or inner uncertainty
• A calm, human perspective on loss, the breaking of roles and trust
• Words for experiences many people know, but rarely name
The author writes from his own life –
of early influences, of work and ambition, of failure and imprisonment,
of the loss of roles and the state in between.
Personal, clear and without dramatisation.
🕊️ This book is for people who
• feel inwardly exhausted, even though everything seems to function outwardly
• seek orientation without having new concepts imposed on them
• do not want to become faster, but more truthful
• sense that trust does not arise from a new identity, but from relief
✨ What this book is not
• ❌ Not a classic guide
• ❌ No methods or exercises
• ❌ No promises or success formulas
• ❌ No psychological explanatory models
• ❌ No call to reinvent oneself
“When Nothing Numbs Anymore” is a quiet book.
It does not seek to explain – but to make many things understandable.
📖 Band 3 of 4 of the series “Between the Years”
By Lichtinger