B.S. and other Childhood Tales We Learned: Gen- X Edition

By Dr Caron Leid

If you are Gen X, chances are you have been running on caffeine, responsibility, and unresolved childhood conditioning for about forty years. You have mastered the art of holding it all together: career, caregiving, parenting, bills, expectations. Somewhere along the line, you forgot what you actually need.

Welcome to the midlife sinkhole. It is that invisible trap where you keep doing everything right yet still feel like something is missing. It is not a midlife crisis. It is the emotional debris left over from growing up in a generation that was told to tough it out, stay productive, and never need help.

In Sinkhole Survival Guide: Midlife Edition, Dr. Caron Leid blends psychology, pop culture, and painfully accurate humour to expose the outdated beliefs that keep you stuck in survival mode. You will meet the emotional sinkholes such as Perfectionism, Overfunctioning, and Emotional Poverty that quietly run your life, and learn how to disarm them before they pull you under again.

This is not toxic positivity or spiritual bypassing. It is real talk for people who were raised on "be grateful, it could be worse" and are finally ready to ask, "What about me?"

Through grounded insights and laugh-out-loud reflections, Dr. Leid helps you reconnect with your worth, rewrite old narratives, and find joy in the messy middle of life. It is therapy meets mixtape, equal parts healing, honesty, and rebellion against everything you were told to suppress.

Survival is no longer the goal. Freedom is.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWZCVFR7
• ISBN13: 9798270548452
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"