Cosplay Thyself

Cosplay allows people to step into characters who represent courage, resilience, grief, strength, or transformation. In doing so, many discover parts of themselves they hadn’t yet found language for.

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As a therapist and writer, I began noticing something surprising: many of the identity processes people work through in therapy were also happening naturally in fandom spaces and cosplay communities.

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Cosplay Thyself explores that connection — how story, embodiment, and community can help people experiment with identity and reconnect with meaning.

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As I started sharing this, I began to take notice of people's stories as well as the research behind this. They became collections. Eventually, I wrote a book about this. By the time I finished, the book was entirely too long. So it became two books. 

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As I was finishing the first half, my ADHD Gollum half yelled at me and told me that the theory was great, but people would want something they could work through. So I converted the book into something actionable - and wrote plans to do the same thing to the second half. 

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And sadly, that was all the easy part. Because now I have to try to get this into the hands of the people. That's where you come in.