You didn't lose yourself. You buried yourself-to survive.

Alive Beneath the Ashes is a science-backed and emotionally resonant guide for high-functioning individuals who feel disconnected, exhausted, or emotionally numb-even while doing everything "right."

If you're silently battling burnout, inherited trauma, or a deep sense of disconnection, this book is your quiet return home.

Written with poetic warmth and clinical clarity, Dr. Saif Qazi blends neuroscience, somatic psychology, and reflective storytelling to explore how survival patterns are encoded in the nervous system-and how they can be gently rewired.

You'll uncover why joy can feel unsafe, why burnout feels familiar, and how early emotional conditioning still shapes your adult behavior, relationships, and sense of worth.

Each chapter offers mirror-like insights, nervous-system-friendly practices, and soft spaces to remember the version of you that was never broken-only buried beneath performance, silence, and survival.

This is not another self-help checklist. It's a reclamation. A soft rebellion against emotional erasure. A return to your truest self.

Whether you're an overthinker, a high achiever quietly aching for more, or someone healing without a map, Alive Beneath the Ashes invites you to move beyond survival and reclaim joy, clarity, and embodied healing.

Perfect for readers of:

• • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
  • What Happened to You? by Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle

If you're ready to rise from the quiet ache you've normalized, this book is your mirror. And your beginning.