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“Sometimes your tragedy is your best feature.”
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Fearful Meets Dismissive

Fearful Meets Dismissive™ pulls readers straight into the chaos, tenderness, and healing embedded in two opposing attachment styles.


This dramatic therapeutic fiction explores what happens when insecurity confronts independence, revealing how trauma and emotional avoidance collide — and how healing begins.

Themes

  • Fear of abandonment

  • Emotional shutdown

  • Push–pull cycles

  • Self-betrayal

  • Rewriting attachment wounds

Signature Series Format
Fearful Meets Dismissive™ is a high-impact therapeutic novella designed to deliver deep emotional insight and healing in a focused, powerful reading experience.

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✨ Launches March 17, 2026
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BIO

“Author Johanna Sparrow, also known as Antoinette M. Watkins, emotional wellness educator and creator of Therapeutic Relationship Fiction.”

Johanna Sparrow (Antoinette M. Watkins) is an award-winning author and emotional wellness educator with over 100 published titles.
Her work focuses on the hidden layers of human behavior—attachment wounds, emotional triggers, trauma patterns, and the psychology of love.

Through her signature Therapeutic Relationship Fiction™, Johanna brings readers into the heart of real-life emotional battles, revealing how fear, insecurity, independence, and love collide.
Her Attachment Drama Healing Series™ shines a powerful light on everyday relationship struggles while guiding readers toward self-awareness and healing. 

Johanna is also the creator of ShineSmart™, a children’s SEL brand that teaches emotional intelligence through storytelling.
With a career rooted in compassion, honesty, and deep insight, Johanna Sparrow continues to help readers understand themselves—and their relationships—in ways that inspire lifelong growth.

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