Stop Being the One They Call First: Turning Always Available Into Finally Off Duty

By Gavin Edwards

Ramona Prejean stands in her New Orleans kitchen at 6 a.m., the ER badge still in her purse and her mother's number lighting up the screen again.
Reverse thinking here means starting from the ending she has been avoiding: the day her children call and she does not pick up.
- That matters more when every ring and notification pulls at her until she cannot hear what her own body is saying.
Most advice tells her to set a boundary, but this book asks what happens if she stops being the first call and lets them find someone else.
- She begins to log each call, then practices silence for one afternoon, discovering that her children can survive a missed ring.
If your phone feels like a leash, this story might give you a way to loosen it without letting go.
- The same turn meets the next emergency, the next favor, the next late-night worry, whether it comes from her mother or her own heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN2MVRGK
• ISBN13: 9798161933374
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"