Think Yourself Free
Book design (hardcopy and eBook)

Christopher Roering is a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and author. Think Yourself Free is a clear and accessible self-help guide to anxiety and depression. This relatively straightforward book design and formatting project is 155 pages, an all-text document, made available as a hardcopy and eBook. A notable approach to the design is how the book is structured. I convinced Christopher to format the book into 88 separate ‘micro chapters’, in which each topic was devoted to a separate page of the book. Some chapters were longer than just one page, others were only a paragraph. This formatting made the topics very easy to find and created negative spaces in which Christopher encouraged readers to jot their thoughts and notes—to use it like a workbook of sorts. An unusual (for me) and interesting aspect of this project was the experience of being hypnotised by Christopher.