The Pronoia Effect: A True Story

By Brooke Hall

"I devoured this book, and you will, too." -Jen Michalski, author of All This Can Be True and You'll Be Fine

What if the thing keeping you stuck isn't your circumstances, but the way you've learned to survive them?

The Pronoia Effect is a true story about ambition, collapse, and what happens when the ways you learned to survive stop serving you. The book closes with The Pronoia Practice, a three-step practice for getting out of survival mode and making the shift from fighting life to trusting it.

Brooke Hall co-founded Light City, the first large-scale light, music, and innovation festival in America. 400,000 people came.

Then she lost it. Publicly.

What followed was a decade of unlearning everything she thought she knew about how life works. Through it all was a question she couldn't outrun: Why is this happening to me?

The answer never came. A different question did: How could this be working for me?

What she found was a trust deeper than optimism. Not the kind that promises a happy ending, but the kind that lets go of the need for one.

This isn't about creating a new life. It's about what happens when you finally stop fighting this one.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ6SH4GY
• ISBN13: 9798993023403
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Sol Circles Publishing
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"