A Nervous System Workbook for the Collapse Era, by Ariel Meadow Stallings ✦ presale edition

If your nervous system has been running on fumes and you’re tired of being told to meditate your way through collapse...this workbook is for you.

📕 What This Time Next Year You’ll Be Glad You Started Will Be

If you're familiar with my work, you already know this won't be a traditional self-help manual.

Those who’ve read my 2020 bestselling book From Sh!tshow to Afterglow may remember the “Find Your Afterglow” prompts at the end of each chapter. They were cute. They were pre-pandy. They were doing their best.

This workbook reimagines those concepts for the moment we’re in NOW.

That means:

• Nervous system rituals for a tech-saturated and overstimulated world
• Reflection prompts that hit even when the grid’s fried
• Somatic practices, spiritual rewilding, and collapse-resilient hopecore
• AI-compatible journaling cues + deep-awareness prompts
• ...All designed for overwhelmed people in deeply uncertain times

🔥 THE DEAL

This is a trust-based micro-Kickstarter without the fees or drama. As a busy entrepreneur, I’m not here for hustle culture or making more work for myself. I’m doing this to presale as a test to see if what started as a hallucination has legs... and if y'all want to walk with me.

If 100 people preorder by July 1st, I’ll write the book. If we don’t hit 100, I’ll refund everyone. No harm, no foul, no shade.

Either way, we’ll know. And honestly? That clarity is the first nervous system win.

🪴 What You’ll Get (Presale Edition)

• A digital workbook PDF (delivered Fall 2025)
• An AI Companion Pack: prompts, rituals, reflection walkthroughs for uploading to your favorite AI bestie
• Optional live Zoom workshop
• A few lucky presale folks will receive a limited print edition, signed and weird-blessed by me

💖 Who This Is For

• You're emotionally smart, deeply exhausted, and allergic to spiritual platitudes
• You want to feel something again, and need bite-sized ways to do it
• You’re curious about intentional and human co-creation with AI, without turning into a productivity brobot 🤖
• You love the weird, the wise, and woo-adjacent-but-pragmatic non-duality

🪴 Pay What You Can Pricing

Choose what feels right for your nervous system + your wallet:

$19 – “I'm tender but curious”
$33 – “I want this AND I want to support it”
$55 – “Let’s fund the future of weird healing books”

You’ll get the same workbook either way. Trust-based model. No scarcity vibes.

🔥FAQ: HOW THIS WORKS

Is this a real book yet?
Not yet. It’s real energy and a real writing project, but right now, it’s a hallucination, a hunch, and a collective spell-in-the-making. This presale decides whether it becomes a finished product.

What exactly would I be buying?
You're reserving your copy of This Time Next Year You’ll Be Glad You Started, a digital nervous system workbook for the collapse era. It’ll be:

• A digital PDF workbook (~100 pages)
• Filled with rituals, prompts, reflection tools, somatic practices, and AI companion exercises
• Designed to be used solo or with ChatGPT as a kind of interactive journaling doula

Wait, is this like a Kickstarter?
Kinda. Think of this as a DIY Kickstarter with fewer emails and more magic.

• If 100 people preorder by July 1st, I’ll produce the full book
• If we don’t hit 100, I’ll refund everyone
• If we do hit 100, you’ll get your copy by October 1st, 2025

Will I get updates along the way?
Yes. You’ll receive:

• Confirmation of your order
• A mid-campaign update
• A yay-or-nay decision on July 2nd
• Behind-the-scenes peeks if we hit the goal

What if you don’t finish the book by October 1st?
If something goes sideways (life, collapse, existential crisis), I’ll either refund you or offer an adjusted timeline. Transparency is baked in. I’m not here to overpromise and ghost.

Can I gift this to a friend?
Yep, here's how.

Why should I preorder now instead of waiting?
Because if enough folks aren’t into it now, it won’t happen. This isn’t marketing FOMO. It’s a way to ask: does this book want to exist through us?

📕 OK, So What’s the Hallucination Backstory Here?

Here's how this came to be: A stranger messaged me asking to buy This Time Next Year You’ll Be Glad You Started... a book I hadn’t written. AI was so convinced I was the author that it even described the book in detail to her:

“Motivational. Forward-looking. Gentle encouragement for people in transition. A healing workbook for uncertain times.”

Honestly, the workbook sounded like something I SHOULD have written. The whole thing felt like a form of oddly deep market research, like the universe saying, “People are trying to buy this book from you. Maybe you should write it?”

So... I’m testing the waters. If 100 of you are a yes, we'll make this hallucination real.

Wanna birth this weird little workbook into the world? 🔥📕🪴💖