Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System

By Kate Ireland

Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System is a lovingly disordered field guide for surviving a world that keeps turning up the brightness. Disguised in the respectable badge of a diagnostic title, this is in contrast a poetic log of being too sensitive in a society built for the perpetually unbothered.

From violent mornings to dreich late nights, Kate sifts through bedrooms, public transport, supermarkets, her Gran's house, the surveillance-era optimism of mindfulness apps, and the wild terrain of her own mind-gathering softness, silliness, and unexpected wisdom along the way. This is a companion for anyone who has ever felt out of alignment with the world's settings, and is still learning how to stay tender without falling apart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191395868X
• ISBN13: 9781913958688
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Burning Eye Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"