Category: Books
Sappy Medium: The Rough Draft is the story of learning how to feel again. Author JB Copeland spent years shutting down or drowning in feelings, and this book is what he wrote while trying to find a better way. Inside are short writings and letters that show what it looks like to heal in the mess. If you’re stuck between too much and not enough, this book is for you.
I read this in two sittings, which never happens for me with nonfiction. The author's honesty about shutting down his own feelings made me put the book down and just stare at the wall a few times.
The chapter about learning to sit with grief instead of numbing it hit me harder than I expected. Copeland doesn't wrap things up neatly, he just shows what it looks like to feel again one rough draft at a time.
I picked this up expecting another tidy self-help book and instead got something that actually admits it's unfinished. The chapters where he describes shutting down instead of feeling hit uncomfortably close, and I found myself putting it down just to sit with a page. It's the kind of book you finis