Where Did You Go?
Over the last two decades, Penny Green began noticing the same pattern appearing again and again.
People were arriving with exhaustion, anxiety, loss of motivation, declining health, relationship struggles and a growing sense that they were no longer fully participating in their own lives. Many described feeling as though they had somehow drifted away from themselves. They were functioning, working, paying the bills and keeping up appearances, yet the enthusiasm, purpose and vitality that once defined them had quietly faded into the background.
The more people Penny met, the more she became convinced she was witnessing something far larger than individual stress, burnout or overwhelm. A hidden pattern seemed to be emerging across every age group, profession and background. Something was causing people to slowly withdraw from their lives while remaining physically present within them.
Where Did You Go? is the result of that investigation.
Drawing on nearly twenty years of observation and thousands of client interactions, Penny explores the social, emotional, environmental and psychological forces contributing to this modern epidemic of withdrawal. More importantly, she explores the pathway back.
This is not a book that simply identifies the problem. It is a book about understanding how people lose connection with themselves, how they become trapped in patterns of survival and disconnection, and how they begin finding their way back to energy, meaning, direction and engagement with life.
For anyone who has looked in the mirror and quietly wondered, What happened to me?, this book offers both an explanation and a path forward.