When everything you've built can't touch what you're FEELING.
A guide for when success feels shallow and the drive that got you here won't get you where you're going
You did everything right, somewhere along the way, winning stopped feeling like winning. When grief, transition, and responsibility come all at once, and your go-to playbooks aren't enough any more...this book meets you there.
Living Real is an invitation to discover where presence is power, fulfillment runs deeper than achievement, and success means stepping beyond to go deeper in ways you never thought possible.
When everything you've built can't touch what you're FEELING.
A guide for when success feels shallow and the drive that got you here won't get you where you're going
You did everything right.
Somewhere along the way, winning stopped feeling like winning. When grief, transition, and responsibility come all at once, and your go-to playbooks aren't enough any more...this book meets you there.
Living Real is an invitation to discover where presence is power, fulfillment runs deeper than achievement, and success means stepping beyond to go deeper in ways you never thought possible.
You've Mastered Success.
Now what?
This book is for accomplished leaders who know something essential is missing:
- When multiple crises collide: loss, business pressures, family needs, and you realize you can't think your way through this one
- The high-performance playbook worked until it didn't. Now the energy crashes last longer than the wins
- You want to feel alive, not just activated. There's a difference between running on cortisol and actually living
- A quiet distance has crept in...from your partner, your kids, yourself—and no amount of "work-life balance" can bridge it
- You're done pushing through. Ready to find energy that renews rather than depletes
If you've been so good at winning that you didn't notice when winning stopped working, this book won't ask you to achieve more... It will show you how to stop performing life and start living it.
Shift towards a new way of doing and being
Beyond achievement, toward aliveness.
Purchase Living Real and discover how to shift from forcing to flowing.
The book includes practical tools for when life refuses to stay in neat compartments.
Go further and deeper, without losing yourself in the process.
Camille Preston, PhD, Business Psychologist and Executive Coach, brings together science, lived experience, and practical wisdom to help you navigate that space between who you've been and who you're becoming.
Not another framework.
a different way of being.
Inside Living Real, you'll discover:
- Let go of what doesn’t really matter — the stuff, shoulds, people — so that you have space for what does
- Create REAL, genuine relationships instead of just managing interactions
- Spend less time living by other people’s rules and more time tuning into and creating what you actually want
- Let go of feeling like you always have to be on and build a life rooted in connection and meaning.
- Feel more alive, more engaged, and more like this is your life, not someone else’s version of it.
This book doesn’t offer easy answers.
But it does offer a clear path forward one that helps you stop managing your life and start living it.
What high-achievers are discovering
Camille speaks directly to the overextended professionals who’ve built a life of achievement—and quietly wonder why it still doesn’t feel like enough
Diane Danielson, COO, Matmarket LLC
A compassionate framework that helps people move beyond societal metrics of outer success to cultivating inner awareness, authenticity, and courage.
Victoria Maizes MD, Founding Executive Director of the Andrew Weil Center
Camille speaks to the fatigue behind the smile, the reality behind the image. Living Real will make you feel seen and free.
Liz O’Donnell, Founder, Working Daughter
Camille Preston offers an antidote - an opportunity to shift from constant striving to a life rooted in authenticity and presence.
Carol Van Den Hende, Author
If you long to be less distracted by the leadership pressure to conform this world, read this book!
Dr. William H. Morley, MBA BCC
ExCL Group, LLC
Living Real is not full of cliches or simple “how to’s.” It’s a practice she calls Realing - a way to come back to ourselves.
Susan King, Dean Emeritus, UNC Hussman School of Journalism & Media
Camille speaks directly to the overextended professionals who’ve built a life of achievement—and quietly wonder why it still doesn’t feel like enough
Diane Danielson
COO | Matmarket LLC
A compassionate framework that helps people move beyond societal metrics of outer success to cultivating inner awareness, authenticity, and courage.
Victoria Maizes MD
Camille speaks to the fatigue behind the smile, the reality behind the image. Living Real will make you feel seen and free.
Liz O’Donnell
Founder | Working Daughter
Camille Preston offers an antidote - an opportunity to shift from constant striving to a life rooted in authenticity and presence.
Carol Van Den Hende
If you long to be less distracted by the leadership pressure to conform this world, read this book!
Dr. William H. Morley
Living Real is not full of cliches or simple “how to’s.” It’s a practice she calls Realing - a way to come back to ourselves.
Susan King, Dean Emeritus
About the author
Not just a guide. A fellow traveler.
Welcome. I'm glad you're here.
If you found your way to these words, something is stirring. Maybe you're wildly successful but sensing there's more. Maybe you're tired of strategies that work for three weeks then fade. Maybe you just have this quiet knowing that something needs to shift.
For over 20 years, I've been privileged to walk beside leaders as they navigate the space between who they've been and who they're becoming. My clients don't need more achievements—they need to feel alive while achieving.
Living Real emerged from my own unraveling—five deaths in five months taught me what my clients had been showing me all along: The life you want isn't somewhere else. It's right here, waiting for you to stop performing long enough to feel it.
Business psychologist. Mother to teenagers and younger children. Runner. Someone who spent years teaching presence while rushing past her own life. Now learning, alongside you, that small shifts that actually stick change everything.
Ready to explore what's already yours?
OFFERINGS
Realing at Your
Own Pace
Practical, on-demand tools to support presence and alignment — anytime you need them.
"realing" at your
own pace
Practical, on-demand tools to support presence and alignment anytime you need them.
Eight Weeks. Eight Core Shifts.To the Real you.
Move through the core shifts of Living REAL in this guided 8-week journey.
8 weeks. 8 core shifts. to the REAL you.
Move through the core shifts of Living REAL in this guided 8-week journey.
Away to Come Back to Yourself
An immersive retreat to pause, unplug, and reconnect with yourself and what matters most.
Away to come back to yourself
An immersive retreat to pause, unplug, and reconnect with yourself and what matters most.
Living Real resourse hub
Here you'll find the tools and exercises that accompany the book, Living Real, including:
The Complete Living Real Workbook (200+ pages) with chapter-by-chapter exercises, The Emotional House Framework, Daily REALing Check-ins, Integration Practices, Reflection Questions at 101 and 201 levels, and Weekly Commitment Templates.
These materials are designed to help you move from reading to practice. While they complement the book, they can also stand alone as tools for deeper self-exploration.