Be Human
A practical, profanity-laced handbook for people who hate self-help but still want better relationships.
A Real Guide To Not-Sucking
This is a straight-talking, swear-friendly guide to being less of a jerk and more of a human. Tanya Ruckstuhl skips cheesy affirmations and offers practical, real-world tools for handling conflict, awkwardness, and everyday relationships without selling your soul.
Picture a fire, the night sky, and an elder who stands and tells stories.
Sacred stories, told in a frame of light and darkness.
Stories are magical because they teach and unify, entertain and create a shared value system.
Stories are fundamentally human, as ancient as our DNA, as important as our immune systems.
In this book, I use stories to call us back from our wild branching apart, to soften the divisions between left and right, urban and rural, male and female (and et all), old and young, type A’s and type Z’s.
This book will help you expand your empathic imagination and increase your confidence in your ability to connect.
The more socially comfortable we are, the more we can bring our most generous selves to one another.
This book is my attempt to create that fire, that elder, that story to remind you of who you really are and where you fit and that you and me and all of us belong here, belong now, belong to each other.
“Finally, a self-help book that talks like my friends and actually helps me not be a jerk.”
— Aya Nakamura
