Still: Zen Parables for the Sleepless Mind

By: Waterfield, Evelyn

It's nearly 2 a.m., and you're doing math.

Fall asleep right now, and you'll still get six hours. Five and a half. Five. Nothing needs to be solved right now, here, in the dark. So why are you staring at the ceiling like it owes you money?

Still is for the overthinkers and midnight ceiling-studiers whose minds keep working after the day has officially ended. Its 36 short chapters are organized around the real reasons we lie awake: racing thoughts, money anxiety, the conversation you keep replaying, grief, burnout, tomorrow's big meeting. Find the one sitting beside you in the dark and begin there.

Each chapter opens on the version of the problem you'll recognize instantly, then hands it to a Zen-inspired parable. A weaver who can't stop reworking the border of a wedding cloth. A steward named Kita who keeps a whole household running and hasn't slept properly in months. A shepherd who hasn't lost a sheep in eleven years and can't stop keeping watch. A few quiet lines follow to help you set the thing down.

No sleep hygiene lectures. No tracking. No homework. Just gentle understanding and wry humor. And if you fall asleep halfway through a sentence, that counts too.

Each chapter stands alone, so you can skip anything too tender for tonight.

Still is for readers who want something gentler than self-improvement and kinder than another list of things to optimize. It is a book to keep on the nightstand, to gift to an overthinker, or return to whenever the mind needs a quieter room.

Inside Still:
- 36 short chapters, each built around a real reason you're awake
- Zen-inspired parables, not advice or sleep rules
- Read in any order; start with whatever is keeping you up tonight
- Gentle humor for the hours when nothing feels funny
- A thoughtful gift for the insomniac in your life

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H69HQD5Y
• ISBN13: 9798183667844
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"