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"Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood" Book Reading

“Quarterlife: The Search for Self In Early Adulthood”

Book Reading

with Satya Doyle Byock

Sunday, July 17th

10 am PDT | 1pm EDT | 5pm GMT

This free event will be hosted online. A same-day recording will be emailed to registrants.

In this free 90min salon, Satya will read from her forthcoming book Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, July 26th) and share the framework she’s created for understanding the search for wholeness in the first half of adulthood.

Weaving together the wisdom of Jungian psychology, literature, trauma-informed care, and social justice advocacy, Quarterlife fills a long-standing hole in soulful resources available to people in this stage of life. Born from Satya’s own need to understand herself and her search for meaning in her early 20s, this book represents fifteen years of research, inquiry, and clinical experience.

Quarterlife asserts that all people are fundamentally seeking two things in life, stability and meaning, and that Quarterlifers tend to fall on one side of that spectrum in their initial drive as either “Stability Types” or “Meaning Types.” Both types are ultimately seeking wholeness and need to learn what the other half knows.

Satya is excited to finally be able to share this book with the Salome community.

After her reading, there will be time for Q&A and some discussion.

This free event will be hosted online. A same-day recording will be shared. Registration is required.

Pre-orders help to support the success of the book! Thank you for your orders.

Available anywhere you buy your books, as well as in your public library. The audio book will also release on July 26th and is read by the author.

See what others are saying about Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

I’m obsessed with this book. If you’re a younger Millennial, or a Gen Z-er, and trying to figure out why do I feel this way, why can’t I be satisfied, why do I always feel like I’m behind or rudderless? — this is the book for you.
— Anne Helen Petersen, author of "Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation"
Absent the structured rites of passage to emerge from childhood into adulthood, how is a young person supposed to grow up today? Quarterlife is a valuable guide to the perplexed in those seas. Filled with illustrative examples, Byock provides tips, clues, and guidance for those who otherwise feel alone.
— James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst and author of "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life"
I loved this book more than I can say! Quarterlife is an insightful, revealing look at the messy and uncharted paths to wholeness, and a powerful tool for anyone navigating early adulthood. This is the book I wish I’d had and one that I will gift again and again. Byock has written both a groundbreaking guide and an intimate invitation to understanding that is destined to be an instant classic.
— Tembi Locke, New York Times bestselling author of "From Scratch"
For decades now, there’s been a crisis — psychological, existential — among America’s young adults, one that has been hiding in plain sight. I know of no one better to address it than Satya Doyle Byock, who has made attending to this age group her life’s work. Quarterlife is compassionate, specific, forceful, lucid, and very wise. It is the book a lot of people have been waiting for, whether they know it or not.
— William Deresiewicz, New York Times bestselling author of "Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite"
If you’re a young adult looking for a way through, or if you’re seeking to understand the struggles of young adults, you must read this timely and illuminating book.
— Jill Filipovic, author of "OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind"

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the founder and director of The Salome Institute. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, forthcoming from Random House on July 26th.

Satya’s writing has been published in The Utne Reader, goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and the Jungian journal, Psychological Perspectives. She has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere. She was previously on staff at the Philemon Foundation, which published The Red Book, and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event.

Recordings: A recording will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of live event.

Scholarships & Discounts: This event is free!

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