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THE WORK OF REMAINING
The Work of Remaining is a hybrid memoir and reflection grounded in clinical insight. Drawing from lived experience and years of therapeutic work, Rayshaun Johnson explores identity, restraint, and the patterns we learn to survive long before we have language for them. This is not a book about fixing what is broken, but about understanding what has been carried, and what it takes to stay present without disappearing.
What You’ll Learn
Readers will learn how many of their behaviors: being quiet, hyper‑aware, accommodating, or restrained—are not simply personality traits, but adaptations shaped by early experiences, and how those patterns continue to operate over time.
Survival Patterns
The book helps readers recognize the difference between surviving without reflection and developing real self‑understanding, inviting them to examine what they’ve carried and what they now have the capacity to question and reshape.
Endurance vs. Understanding
Readers will learn what it means to stay engaged with themselves without disappearing. Moving through relationships, identity, and internal experiences with clarity, boundaries, and intentional presence.
Remaining Present
Meet the author
Rayshaun Johnson
Rayshaun Johnson is a licensed professional counselor and nationally certified counselor with nearly 15 years’ experience, specializing in identity, emotion regulation, and relational dynamics—particularly for Black men. As founder of NuVision Therapy in Washington, DC, he blends community mental health and private practice experience to address trauma, life transitions, and relationships with a reflective, disciplined approach that centers safety, visibility, and belonging.
