How to Lose a Life You Love

About this book

What happens when the life you built becomes the life that buries you?What happens when the life you built becomes the life that buries you?For nearly thirty years, Mike Karame devoted himself to creating the life he had always imagined. Nineteen of those years were spent running his own horse club in Lebanon, while motorcycles, paragliding, kitesurfing, business, and travel became part of a life driven by discipline, risk, adventure, and freedom.From the outside, it looked like a life chosen. But beneath it lay a quieter truth. Much of it had been shaped long before he realised he had a choice.In How to Lose a Life You Love, Mike traces the invisible conditioning that teaches us to trade our own voice for approval, obedience, success, and belonging. From a childhood marked by war, control, and emotional absence, to a life built through ambition, rebellion, and risk, to a devastating collapse in Australia that cost him almost everything, and to the unexpected love he found in the ruins, this memoir asks one central question: What remains when everything is taken away?Raw, reflective, and deeply human, How to Lose a Life You Love is a story of conditioning, rebellion, loss, love, and the long return to inner sovereignty.It is not a book about losing everything.It is a book about finding the part of yourself that was never lost.