Beyond Your Confines
The key to free your mind
The pandemic confined you to your home, and now you have emerged, blinking into the daylight of hope. But to what extent has your mind kept you trapped within a prison of your own creation?
We have always constructed labyrinthian prisons of fears and assumptions, but the evolution of technology has taken us further from the wisdom and natural rhythms that we can find within. The less aware you are of your internal (mental) state, the more you become a prisoner of it, and this blindness can lead to challenges to your mental health, your ability to parent, and it can even threaten your career. Learning how to free your mind from an internal prison should be a high priority.
However, Beyond Your Confines is not just an exercise in individual growth. Your mind does not exist in a vacuum. We live in a world of polarized views, discrimination, and privilege, and so no mind can be free without an assessment of the part we play in all of this. We are, after all, as interconnected to each other as we are to the environment we pollute.
Written by psychotherapist and author Chris Warren-Dickins, Beyond Your Confines sets out the keys to free your imprisoned mind so you can discover the wisdom and natural rhythms from without and from within.
We have always constructed labyrinthian prisons of fears and assumptions, but the evolution of technology has taken us further from the wisdom and natural rhythms that we can find within. The less aware you are of your internal (mental) state, the more you become a prisoner of it, and this blindness can lead to challenges to your mental health, your ability to parent, and it can even threaten your career. Learning how to free your mind from an internal prison should be a high priority.
However, Beyond Your Confines is not just an exercise in individual growth. Your mind does not exist in a vacuum. We live in a world of polarized views, discrimination, and privilege, and so no mind can be free without an assessment of the part we play in all of this. We are, after all, as interconnected to each other as we are to the environment we pollute.
Written by psychotherapist and author Chris Warren-Dickins, Beyond Your Confines sets out the keys to free your imprisoned mind so you can discover the wisdom and natural rhythms from without and from within.
Praise for Beyond Your Confines
"This book is not only timely but critical reading for anyone looking for greater understanding of themselves and the unique and challenging times we are in. Chris's keen insights and focus on interconnectivity have provided a basis to begin healing through our own well-being and healthier relationships. This is indeed a roadmap to freedom.'"
- Dr Pamela Brodie
“If anyone still feels trapped since the pandemic began, Beyond Your Confines is certainly a key to free your mind. Chris Warren-Dickins adopts a novel approach to challenges to our mental health, and threads together the most pressing societal issues of our time.
But don’t just read Beyond Your Confines. As Chris encourages their readers to do, use this book to strike up a dialogue with others about how we can use our inner resources and wisdom to heal ourselves, each other, and the planet that we are living in. Reach Beyond Your Confines today.”
- Monty Moncrieff MBE
“Beyond Your Confines is exactly the book we need in this current climate of polarization. Psychotherapist Chris Warren-Dickins explains how our need for certainty, and our belief that we are right, can imprison us in a life of eternal limitations. If we are to realize true mental health, we need to reach beyond this prison of our own construction.”
- Graeme Smith
“A deeply insightful book reflecting on our shared experience of the pandemic and the myriad ways it has exacerbated stress, depression, anxiety, burnout and more.
Understand the thought distortions and distracted behaviors that keep you trapped; give yourself a greater awareness and acceptance of your emotional state and the underlying past and current traumas that have brought you here; and most importantly learn the tools to break free of them. Lean into and ride the waves.”
- Dr Katrina Munteanu
- Dr Pamela Brodie
“If anyone still feels trapped since the pandemic began, Beyond Your Confines is certainly a key to free your mind. Chris Warren-Dickins adopts a novel approach to challenges to our mental health, and threads together the most pressing societal issues of our time.
But don’t just read Beyond Your Confines. As Chris encourages their readers to do, use this book to strike up a dialogue with others about how we can use our inner resources and wisdom to heal ourselves, each other, and the planet that we are living in. Reach Beyond Your Confines today.”
- Monty Moncrieff MBE
“Beyond Your Confines is exactly the book we need in this current climate of polarization. Psychotherapist Chris Warren-Dickins explains how our need for certainty, and our belief that we are right, can imprison us in a life of eternal limitations. If we are to realize true mental health, we need to reach beyond this prison of our own construction.”
- Graeme Smith
“A deeply insightful book reflecting on our shared experience of the pandemic and the myriad ways it has exacerbated stress, depression, anxiety, burnout and more.
Understand the thought distortions and distracted behaviors that keep you trapped; give yourself a greater awareness and acceptance of your emotional state and the underlying past and current traumas that have brought you here; and most importantly learn the tools to break free of them. Lean into and ride the waves.”
- Dr Katrina Munteanu
How to buy Beyond Your Confines
Beyond Your Confines is available in hardback, paperback, and ebook at all good book retailers
Beyond the Blue
A Survival Guide for the Male Labeled, and a Healthier Society for All
Since the pandemic, mental healthcare has become inaccessible to many, and this has hurt certain people more than others (whether that is due to gender bias, racism, transphobia, biphobia, or homophobia). Untreated depression, anxiety, relationship conflict and anger, and trauma pose a risk for all of us in society.
Beyond the Blue is essential reading for anyone who needs to tackle these threats to emotional and physical well-being.
Beyond the Blue is essential reading for anyone who needs to tackle these threats to emotional and physical well-being.
Praise for Beyond the Blue
"Beyond the Blue is a thoughtful pathway to healthy living. Chris well understands that modern life is difficult and offers sound research from neuroscience, psychotherapy, and his professional experience. Beyond the Blue is accessible, 'achievable' and sensible, and well researched. It’s a welcome reference for any and every person who is 'male labeled.’"
- The Honorable James E. McGreevey
Governor of New Jersey 2002 - 2004
“Stigma, societal beliefs, label-based expectations and no clear road map to care are real and pressing issues. Beyond the Blue peals back these obstacles and provides a user friendly ‘survival guide’ to self-care in a complicated world and meaningful clinical advice about seeking professional care. Don’t just survive, choose to thrive. Beyond the Blue can help with that journey.”
- David J. Griffith, MS, CCS, LCADC
President & C.E.O. | Vantage Health System
"Beyond the Blue is packed with tools to 'survive and thrive.' Chris Warren-Dickins provides essential psychoeducation accompanied by awareness and solution-based exercises that are sure to benefit any willing reader. The author's personal passion to offer help to the male labeled is unquestionable."
- Jill Fellner, MSW, LCSW
"Chris Warren-Dickins’s survival guide is not only for the male labeled but is also a resource for anyone challenged by abuse, anxiety and depression. Packed with fresh new metaphors and time-tested exercises this book speaks knowingly to a whole spectrum of human experiences and identities. Beyond the Blue is a timely addition to self-help and professional references."
- Suzanne Saldarini, MA, LPC, NCPsyA
- The Honorable James E. McGreevey
Governor of New Jersey 2002 - 2004
“Stigma, societal beliefs, label-based expectations and no clear road map to care are real and pressing issues. Beyond the Blue peals back these obstacles and provides a user friendly ‘survival guide’ to self-care in a complicated world and meaningful clinical advice about seeking professional care. Don’t just survive, choose to thrive. Beyond the Blue can help with that journey.”
- David J. Griffith, MS, CCS, LCADC
President & C.E.O. | Vantage Health System
"Beyond the Blue is packed with tools to 'survive and thrive.' Chris Warren-Dickins provides essential psychoeducation accompanied by awareness and solution-based exercises that are sure to benefit any willing reader. The author's personal passion to offer help to the male labeled is unquestionable."
- Jill Fellner, MSW, LCSW
"Chris Warren-Dickins’s survival guide is not only for the male labeled but is also a resource for anyone challenged by abuse, anxiety and depression. Packed with fresh new metaphors and time-tested exercises this book speaks knowingly to a whole spectrum of human experiences and identities. Beyond the Blue is a timely addition to self-help and professional references."
- Suzanne Saldarini, MA, LPC, NCPsyA
How to buy Beyond the Blue
Beyond the Blue is available in hardback, paperback, and ebook at all good retailers
Book tours
Book signing at Barnes & Noble (Paramus, New Jersey). Chris Warren-Dickins discusses Beyond Your Confines and Beyond the Blue.
Radio interview on Eye on the Community. Chris Warren-Dickins discusses the “black swans of the depressed male labeled”, a concept Chris introduced with the publication last year of Beyond the Blue.
Chris also discusses Beyond Your Confines (out now) where Chris explores how this post-pandemic has created further mental prisons to confine us.
Chris also discusses Beyond Your Confines (out now) where Chris explores how this post-pandemic has created further mental prisons to confine us.
Author and psychotherapist Chris Warren-Dickins was invited by the Mayor to speak at Ridgewood's Pride (New Jersey).
When they are still banning books, when they are stripping people of basic human rights, Chris explained that there is still a need for Pride.
Chris discussed their experiences as a writer, psychotherapist and parent, to stress the importance of empathy and compassion.
When they are still banning books, when they are stripping people of basic human rights, Chris explained that there is still a need for Pride.
Chris discussed their experiences as a writer, psychotherapist and parent, to stress the importance of empathy and compassion.
A panel discussion about Beyond the Blue.
Chris explained how the male label serves as an obstacle to adequate mental healthcare,
and how untreated depression, anxiety, and trauma poses a risk to all of us.
Chris explained how the male label serves as an obstacle to adequate mental healthcare,
and how untreated depression, anxiety, and trauma poses a risk to all of us.
Podcast interview between Chris Warren-Dickins and DJ Graeme Smith.
This podcast has been nominated for 'Best New Podcast" in the British Podcast Awards 2022 and 'Best Independent Podcast' in the Radio Academy Arias 2022.
This podcast has been nominated for 'Best New Podcast" in the British Podcast Awards 2022 and 'Best Independent Podcast' in the Radio Academy Arias 2022.
Highlights from a tour of Beyond the Blue
Unboxing of Beyond the Blue