A Memoir

How to Lose
a Life You Love

A Memoir of Conditioning, Collapse, and Sovereignty

For more than thirty years, Mike Karame built a life in Lebanon that looked, from the outside, like everything worth having. He owned and operated a horse club, taught kitesurfing, practiced life coaching and hypnotherapy, and pursued activities that took him into the air, beneath the ocean, and deep into nature. He created a lifestyle that others envied. Then, at forty-eight, he moved to Australia. Within months, everything collapsed. He lost his business, his house, his life savings, and was forced to move into a caravan. This memoir moves between the life he inherited, the life he consciously built, and the reckoning that finally forced him to ask which parts were ever truly his. It explores what remains when the structures we build can no longer support us, what conditioning costs, and what sovereignty requires once the applause stops.