TAIU

The Alternative Is Unthinkable

What if the life you are living is not the only life available to you?

A digital book for anyone who feels something may need to change but cannot yet see the alternative.

It asks the questions we carry but rarely stop to ask. What does enough look like? What is this decision really costing you? What have you quietly decided is no longer available to you?

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£7.99. One payment. Permanent access.

You do not have to buy anything to use TAIU. Ask Alto, My Tree and the exercises are free, and no account is needed to start. Try TAIU free.

The Alternative Is Unthinkable by Mark Eve, standing as a hardcover book.

Welcome to TAIU

The book helps you see your life differently. TAIU gives you somewhere to do something with what you see.

Talk something through. See your life as a whole. Write something down. Come back when you are ready.

Nothing useful has to disappear

Ask Alto. Save what matters. Add it to My Journal or My Tree. Come back when you are ready.

  1. Start by talking something throughAsk AltoSay what is on your mind, by voice or text. Alto will help you look at it differently and consider what else may be possible.No account needed. Start here.
  2. Step back and see where it fitsMy TreeSee your whole life in one place, in your own words.
  3. Keep what mattersMy JournalWrite it down, come back to it and see what changed.
  4. Go deeper when something needs more than one sittingSessions and workshopsStay with one question for longer and work through it properly.
Alto, the TAIU mark

Meet Alto

Something going round in your head? Ask Alto by voice or text. Alto will help you slow it down, separate what happened from what you think it means and look for the alternative you cannot yet see.

Start with what is on your mind. You can leave the conversation there or save what matters.

Ask Alto

This conversation is private. Save it to your journal only if you choose.

Hi, I’m Alto. What would you like to talk through?

Private unless you choose to save it. You do not need an account to begin.

My Tree

The loudest thing today is not your whole life.

My Tree helps you step back and see your life as a whole. Where it began. Who you have become. What is happening now. What gives something back and what may still grow.

Nothing is scored. Nothing changes unless you change it. It is your life, in your words.

You do not need to have read the book to use this.

Create my TreeSee how My Tree works

Tap each part of the tree

My Tree: white rings at the base, an orange trunk, one canopy around the top, weather to the left and sunlight to the right.
My Tree, illustrated

Choose any part of the Tree

Nothing here is a score. Each part simply helps you notice something different about the life you are living.

Roots are what this life is growing from. The trunk is the person carrying it. The branches are the life being lived. The canopy is what the life has become. New growth is what is not here yet. Sunlight is what gives something back.

My Journal

A piece of paper cannot bring you back to what you said. My Journal can.

Write or dictate what is on your mind. Save a decision, record what you said you would do or park it until you are ready.

Come back in a week, a month or a year. See what changed, what did not and whether it still matters.

Open my journal
  • Write or dictate
  • Connect an entry to My Tree
  • Choose when to return to it
  • Decide what TAIU may use in future conversations

Sessions and workshops

Some things need more than one conversation.

A session helps you work something out. A workshop gives you more time to work through it. Pause, save your place and return when you are ready.

Guided sessions and workshops across work, relationships, family, money and health.

Some workshops are open to try. The rest come with membership.

See sessionsSee workshops

After the book

If a chapter stays with you, do something with it.

Every chapter connects to questions and guided sessions inside TAIU. Choose what stayed with you, work through what it means in your own life and save your thoughts in My Tree.

If you need help thinking it through, ask Alto.

See what each chapter leads to

Membership

Thirty days come with the book. After that, you decide.

Keep using the free parts of TAIU or join to keep the full collection of sessions, workshops, journal space and Tree reviews open. Nothing starts automatically.

  • £79 a year
  • £8.99 a month
What membership includes

Before you go

You do not have to make a decision today.

You may decide to change something, protect something or leave it alone. Looking properly is still an answer.

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