Disappearing is quiet work. It happens in the spaces where care, competence and expectation collide.

Living at the Edges of You traces how a girl who learned to survive by becoming small grew into a woman the world praised for holding everything together. From a childhood in South Africa shaped by rooms no adult was watching, through a relationship that counted her smiles and called it love, into boardrooms that renamed her vigilance professionalism, Meg Steinschauer follows the pattern of self-erasure to its breaking point: the morning half her face stopped moving.

What follows is a return. To a body that had been keeping score for decades. To a marriage that taught her nervous system what safety feels like. To two daughters she refuses to hand the old inheritance. To a life with edges.

Written with warmth, dark humour and hard-won psychological insight, this is a book for every woman who has been called strong while quietly wondering where she went. It offers recognition, language, tenderness and a steadier way to ask: where do I end, and what am I still allowed to choose?

No quick fixes. No five-step promise. Just a chair pulled out at the same table.

You do not have to disappear to be valuable.