A Little Less to Carry: Reflections on Overthinking, Boundaries, and Making Room for Life

By Sterling Hayden

You can care deeply without carrying everything.

Some days, the hardest part is the feeling that everything depends on you: keeping people happy, making the right decisions, holding yourself together, and always knowing what comes next.

A Little Less to Carry is a short, thoughtful book for those days. Across 14 warm, direct chapters, Sterling Hayden explores how to meet your responsibilities while leaving room for your own life.

Inside, you will explore how to:

Recognise when thinking helps and when it only repeats a worry.Say no clearly without turning against the people you care about.Love someone without trying to manage their every feeling.Respond to anger and repair harm without becoming trapped in self-blame.Make room for rest, ordinary pleasure, and a more honest sense of enough.

The book also makes space for loneliness, belonging, God, uncertainty, and death. Your beliefs remain your own. These are questions and reflections you can bring into everyday life.

Read it in order, or turn to the chapter that meets you where you are today.

A concise book of approximately 8,400 words, with 14 chapters, an opening, and a closing reflection. By Sterling Hayden, author of The Way of the Feather.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKMSBQKM
• ISBN13: 9798175731775
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"