Cover: Cat Memos for Inner Peace
Book 1 in the series

Cat Memos for Inner Peace

The cat has inner peace. You have this book. That’s a start.

Paperback $12.99 · Hardcover $19.99

  • 100 lessons
  • 20 chapters
  • 130 pages
  • 6 × 9 in

100 Lessons from a Cat Who Wants to Be Left Alone - The Sarcastic Illustrated Gift Book for Adults Who Need More Calm. Funny Gift for Cat Lovers

A plush grey cat who has never once picked up a call, never replied within the hour and never pretended to care about your weekend. She has 100 lessons for you. Short, dry, no program.

One line. One drawing. Turn the page.

  • 100 lessons in 20 chapters: the alarm clock, smalltalk, unwanted calls, the sofa, eighteen hours of sleep, mistakes, midday rest, hecticness, solitude, saying no through silence, sunspots, getting up, blocking doors, stretching, responsibility, doing nothing and attention
  • 100 large watercolour illustrations - one cat, one drawing per lesson
  • No exercises, no journaling prompts, no breathing instructions. Just lines that land
  • 130 pages, 6 x 9 inches, white paper - fits in any bag and any gift box

Who is it for?

For the coworker who still takes on one more thing. For the best friend who never says no. For the sister who thinks of everything for everyone. And for anyone who has read enough self-help books.

Inner peace

is not a goal for this cat. It’s a condition. Book 1 of the Cat Memos series - more books on the holidays, the office, love, travel, parenting, housework, fitness and growing older to follow.

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Read six lessons from the book

Celebrate the invention of voicemail as the best tool for avoiding communication. Lesson 15
Don't let critics ruin your day; a quick fur-grooming solves every problem. Lesson 29
At no point declare the desire for quiet as needing justification. Lesson 43
Shift your entire daily routine exactly to where the sun warms the floor. Lesson 57
Stretch all four limbs out at every conceivable time of day to stretch tendons and relieve tension. Lesson 71
Enjoy the feather-light freedom of a completely carefree, low-maintenance existence. Lesson 85

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The chapters

  1. The Morning Alarm: Refusing to Get Up
  2. The Art of Ignoring Smalltalk
  3. Hiding from Unwanted Calls
  4. Why the Sofa Is a Sacred Temple
  5. Mastering the 18-Hour Sleep Phase
  6. Making Mistakes and Grooming Yourself Immediately
  7. The Duty of Absolute Midday Rest
  8. Why Hecticness Is a Disease of Humanity
  9. The Right to Undisturbed Solitude
  10. How to Treat Humans Like Furniture
  11. The Art of Saying No Through Silence
  12. Sunbeams as the Only Focal Point of the Day
  13. Why Getting Up Is Overrated
  14. Blocking Doors as a Power Demonstration
  15. The Importance of Thorough Stretching
  16. Phone Ringing as an Acoustic Insult
  17. How to Completely Shake Off Responsibility
  18. The Invention of Professional Doing Nothing
  19. Why Nobody Has a Right to Your Attention
  20. The Ultimate Enlightenment: Sleep, Eat, Quiet

The cat doesn’t recommend buying this book. The cat recommends nothing. But she stays.

Free

Twenty lessons that are in none of the books

The free booklet, with drawings and three door hangers to cut out.

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