An independent publishing house · est. 2026
Books for the headwinds.
Some seasons you spend walking straight into the wind. Headwinds Press makes the books for those seasons — honest, human, and built to last on a nightstand. We begin with the mind, and we're only getting started.
The house & its lines
One house, many lines.
Headwinds Press grows as a family of focused lines — each one a series built for a particular reader, in a particular weather. Today there is one. Over the next three years, there will be several.
Tailwind Explore →
Second line
Third line
Several more lines are mapped through 2029. This is the plan, not the ceiling.
Line 01 · live now
If Headwinds is the storm you walk into, Tailwind is the wind at your back on the way out. After Anxiety, Come Here. found its readers, this line was born — first-person guides through the hardest weather of the mind. It opens with Flying, Come Here.
“[ Emotion ], Come Here.”
- ·Flying, Come Here. — the fear of flying
- ·Sleep, Come Here. — the 3 a.m. mind
- ·Quiet the Spiral. — the racing thought
- ·Driving, Come Here. — the road & the body
- ·more on the way
In print & coming
The books
Honest, first-hand books across our growing lines — with free guides on every topic.
Why we exist
We publish the books we needed.
Not a clinic. Not a textbook. A hand on the shoulder from someone who has been there.
Headwinds Press is a small independent house built on a simple belief: the most useful book about a hard season is the one written by a person who lived it and came out the other side. We're starting with the mind — anxiety, fear, the long walk back to calm — and we'll grow, one line at a time, into the other weathers of a life.
— Headwinds Press
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