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The Floor Beneath the Floor

Health and Wellness

,

Biography and Memoir

Mature

The Floor Beneath the Floor

A Memoir of DepersonalizationBy Tidal GraceRecorded Track

The Floor Beneath the Floor

Length6h 48m

About this audiobook

December 2017. Montreal. A blizzard. A psychotherapist with twenty years of clinical experience collapses on a borrowed apartment floor and wakes up behind glass. For two years he lives inside the very condition he has spent his career treating in others, present but unreachable, watching his own life from a distance no clinical framework can close. The Floor Beneath the Floor is Tidal Grace's memoir of depersonalization, written from both sides of the glass. It is also an argument: that the territory contemporary medicine treats as pathology has been mapped, with extraordinary precision, by contemplative traditions reaching back twenty-five centuries. The seventeen-year-old searching online at two a.m. and the Buddhist monk on a ten-year retreat are describing the same experience. One has a map. The other does not. For the two a.m. Googlers. You are in ancient territory. You are not alone.

Audiobook details

GenreHealth and Wellness, Biography and Memoir

Length6 hrs 48 mins

Narrated byRecorded Track

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateMay 19, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening credits

1408_the_tibetan_solution

2Dedication

1509_the_body_knows

3Epigraph

16Part 3: The Return

4Author’s Note

1710_the_starbucks_satori

5Part 1: The Floor

1811_what_i_tell_my_clients_now

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1912_the_contemplative_protocols

702_the_glass_room

2013_the_floor_was_a_door

803_the_good_patient

2114_epilogue_hamburg_winter_morning

904_this_has_always_been_here

22About the Author

10Part 2: The Map

23Continuing the Conversation

1105_maranasati

24Acknowledgments

1206_involuntary_monks

25Closing

1307_the_witness

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