Pieces to Peace

Are you too exhausted to drive home?

Every day, millions of high-achieving professionals sit in their cars outside office buildings, completely drained by a system that promises stability but extracts humanity. They have logged the hours, hit the metrics, and made the sacrifices, only to run face-first into a devastating reality: the modern corporate machine is structurally incapable of loving them back.

In Pieces to Peace, corporate executive and leadership consultant Doris Jackson-Shazier exposes a silent epidemic running through the modern workforce: Workplace Heartbreak. This isn't standard administrative burnout or temporary bureaucratic frustration. It is the acute psychological trauma of structural betrayal that target the high-achiever. It is the slow, calculated campaign of confidence erosion executed by an insecure boss. It is the isolation of code-switching, the hollow tokenism of diversity optics, and the sudden, public erasure of being left off the company org chart while your body is still inside the building. It is the chilling "betrayal of silence" from transactional peers when a crisis hits, and the deafening vacuum that waits at the end of the climb—the silence of retirement.

Drawing on her raw personal journey from the proud, resilient streets of inner-city Miami to the elite, cutthroat corridors of senior retail leadership, Doris delivers an uncompromising, deeply validating autopsy of corporate cruelty. She recounts the gripping relational trauma of surviving a near-fatal battle with long-COVID on an oxygen tank, while the hospitality giant she gave a decade of her life to couldn’t find the capacity to send a single meal to her family.

But this book is not an autopsy of despair—it is a declaration of independence.

Doris introduces a proprietary, systematic 5-P Restoration Framework engineered to help high-achievers break free from the treadmill of professional survival and wash the soil of corporate cruelty from your hands. Through a sequence of deliberate, high-accountability movements, you will learn exactly how to disarm the mental noise of a toxic manager, decouple your human identity from a corporate directory, map out a values-aligned exit strategy, and construct a sanctuary community completely independent of your job title.

Once respect is no longer being served, you are no longer required to sit at the table. Flawless metrics cannot save a toxic culture, and a fancy title will never offset a deficit in human dignity. Pieces to Peace is your vital, life-saving field manual to unlearn the habits of corporate survival, reclaim your narrative, and step into an unshakeable empire of true, lasting peace.

Your next chapter is officially yours to write. Keep your boundaries intact, refuse to shrink, and thrive.