What if the conversations you avoid are the very ones that could change your life?
In Conversations You Need, Dorian Withrow Jr. offers a powerful collection of thought-provoking reflections, questions, and emotional insights designed to guide you through the hardest — and most important — conversations you'll ever face.
Whether it's a talk with yourself, a loved one, a friend, or someone you’ve lost touch with, this book is a bridge to healing. With poetic honesty and psychological depth, it encourages you to explore difficult truths, break emotional silence, and reconnect with the human experiences that unite us all.
This is not a lecture — it’s a dialogue. A deeply personal space where topics like grief, identity, growth, forgiveness, emotional regulation, and communication are unpacked with care.
Inside these pages, you’ll discover:
Prompts that help you speak your truth and hear others’
Language to face grief, rebuild self-worth, and release resentment
Conversations for healing relationships — or finding peace in letting go
Reflections on masculinity, trauma, empathy, and becoming
The emotional literacy schools never taught, but life demands
This is the book you return to — when silence feels heavy and honesty feels urgent.
It's not just what you say. It’s what you finally understand.
Meet Dorian Withrow Jr. an author who plays with poetic insight and wisdom whose words dance in the minds of readers. His work is said to be sincere, insightful, authentic, and down to earth. Dorian is dynamic, yet grateful to sit under the people that paved a way for him to establish his presence to the world. Dorian graduated with a bachelors in science from Canisius University. He majored in Animal Behavior Ecology and Conservation (ABEC) with a minor in Philosophy. Receiving notable rewards such as the Martin Luther King Award for community engagement, promoting harmony, growth, ect. & The St. Thomas Aquinas Reward for philosophical excellence, distinguished from his entire graduation class. He is a martial artist, specifically an ITF Taekwondo practitioner. He is also involved in activism for people struggling with systemic issues and the mental health space. Dorian has co authored Speak! Young Brown People Speak, We Are Listening!, authored Thoughts Of Creativity King 114 Advice, Wisdom 45 Advice, and Conversations You Need. He continuously aims his literature at guiding readers on a journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and profound philosophical reflection. His work encompasses his education, life lessons and introspection. Dorian has made appearances in NBC Spotlight, Yahoo News Amsterdam News, Buffalo News, Blog in Africa, and numerous podcasts from the US and UK. His ambition to do his part to give what the world needs fuels Dorian's progress. Notably, he has helped others find their way to give. He wants everyone to make their footprints by providing their talents and abilities to others. His influence is the world. There is something to admire in everyone. There is something spectacular about shaping ourselves to be our best. Learn more about him and what he has for you on dswjr.com
