“If you feel like you can’t find balance or belonging, read Quarterlife”
—Oprah Daily
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Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper Focus on Quarterlife
The Guardian I Felt Lost in Early Adulthood
The Irish Examiner The Struggle to Balance Dreams and Reality
The Guardian I’m an Adult. Why do I regress Under my parents’ roof?
Oprah Daily 14 Books for (Just About) Every New Year’s Resolution
Fortune My ‘soul is tapped out’
Morning Person Opening Up About My Quarterlife Crisis
NPR Life Kit This 15-minute stick figure exercise can help you find your purpose
Culture Study A Different Way to Think About Quarterlife
New York Post Twentysomethings Are Having a Quarterlife Crisis — Here’s How to Manage It
New York Times What Psychologists Want Today’s Young Adults to Know
Literary Hub On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History
Next Big Idea Book Club Book Bite
Next Big Idea Club Season 18 Nominee
Writer’s Digest Satya Doyle Byock: On Writing The Book Her Past Self Needed
Publisher’s Weekly “Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood”
podcast & radio & tv
The Weekend University with Niall McKeever
Theory & Practice with Ana Cordera
Therapy Works with Emily Samuel
The Tamron Hall Show with Tamron Hall
BBC Radio - Woman’s Hour with Krupa Padhy
Apple News in Conversation with Shumita Basu
The Podcast with a Thousand Faces, with John Bucher of the Joseph Cambell Foundation
The Career Contessa Podcast with Lauren McGoodwin
Morning Person Podcast with Leslie Stephens
The Experience-Oriented Fitness Podcast with Coach Caleb
The Unmistakable Creative with Srini Rao
NPR Morning Edition with Marielle Segarra
NPR All Things Considered with Marielle Segarra
NPR Life Kit with Marielle Segarra
Psychologists Off the Clock with Debbie Sorensen
Alchemical Toil with Alexis Durgee
Think Out Loud with Dave Miller on OPB
My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston
The Human Design Podcast with Emma Dunwoody
Not Perfect Podcast with Poppy Jamie
The Week in Women with Jill Filipovic
Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen
All of It with Alison Stewart on WNYC
The Goop Podcast with Erica Chidi
The Goop Podcast (2019) with Elise Loehnen
“If you’re a young adult looking for a way through… you must read this timely and illuminating book.”
— Jill Filipovic, author of "OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind"
“With all the chaos and disorientation of the post-pandemic era, young adults seeking some comfort and guidance as they trudge a path forward would do well to pick up this book.”
—The New York Post
“I loved this book more than I can say! Quarterlife is an insightful, revealing look at the messy and uncharted paths to wholeness, and a powerful tool for anyone navigating early adulthood. This is the book I wish I’d had and one that I will gift again and again. Byock has written both a groundbreaking guide and an intimate invitation to understanding that is destined to be an instant classic.”
— Tembi Locke, New York Times bestselling author of "From Scratch"
“For decades now, there’s been a crisis — psychological, existential — among America’s young adults, one that has been hiding in plain sight. I know of no one better to address it than Satya Doyle Byock, who has made attending to this age group her life’s work. ”
— William Deresiewicz, New York Times bestselling author of "Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite"