A Memoir

How to Lose
a Life You Love

A memoir of conditioning, collapse, and sovereignty, for anyone who built a life that looked right from the outside and felt like a cage from the inside.

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Mike Karame, author portrait

I spent years building a life around freedom, achievement and self-reliance. Then, in my late forties, almost all of it came apart in Australia, quietly and out of public view.


This book is about what was lost,
and what was actually mine to keep.

A memoir about what collapse reveals when the life we built can no longer hold us, and the quieter, harder work of sovereignty on the other side of it.