Reclaim Your Voice And Stop Avoiding Conflict Before It’s Too Late

Discover how to break free from avoidant patterns, speak up with confidence, and build the deeply connected relationship you’ve always wanted. The Cost of Quiet Available February 3, 2026.

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You tell yourself it’s not worth the fight. You avoid the hard conversations. Over time, the distance grows, and so does the resentment.

Avoidance may feel like “keeping the peace,” but it’s actually self-abandonment. Left unchecked, it erodes trust, intimacy, and connection, leaving you unseen, unheard, and unfulfilled.

In The Cost of Quiet, therapist Colette Jane Fehr reveals how to turn conflict into an opportunity for connection.

Drawing from her own personal journey and decades of helping couples as a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) clinician, Colette shares science-backed tools, raw stories, and practical exercises. You’ll learn to speak your truth, navigate conflict with courage, and rebuild relationships on a foundation of honesty and secure attachment.

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Inside this book, you’ll discover:

✔️ Why staying silent feels safe, but secretly damages your relationships.
✔️ The 10 avoidant coping strategies that slowly erode intimacy.
✔️ How attachment styles quietly drive avoidant behavior.
✔️ Tools to stop “quiet quitting” your relationship.
✔️ Self-Connected Communication™, a proven method to speak up effectively.
✔️ How to transform conflict into deeper connection.
✔️ The pathway to a securely attached relationship that lasts.

Get The Cost of Quiet Toolkit for Free: Here’s How

When You Pre-Order The Cost of Quiet you’ll receive The Cost of Quiet Toolkit (Total Value: $997) — a companion resource that condenses months of therapy into practical tools for building safety, self-trust, and connection.

here’s what’s inside:

  • The ABCs of Communication — $350 Value

    A three-step framework (Act, Be Vulnerable, Communicate) to help you stay grounded and speak with clarity even in conflict. You’ll learn how to regulate before reacting, express yourself without defensiveness, and strengthen emotional safety in every conversation.

  • How to Bring Up a Difficult Topic — $275 Value

    Simple, therapist-approved strategies and word-for-word scripts for expressing your needs without triggering defensiveness or disconnection. This guide shows you exactly how to initiate hard conversations with calm, confidence, and compassion.

  • 21 Questions to Create Connection — $197 Value

    Guided prompts designed to deepen intimacy and help you rediscover each other’s inner worlds. Perfect for date nights, long car rides, or quiet evenings at home — these questions spark the kind of conversations that keep love alive.

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Colette Jane Fehr

About the Author

Colette Jane Fehr, LMFT, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in couples therapy. Certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy (the gold standard for couples). She has helped hundreds of couples and individuals heal disconnection and rebuild lasting bonds.

She is also the cohost of two popular podcasts: Insights from the Couch, a top 5% show for women navigating midlife, and Love Thy Neighbor, a iHeart Radio relationship talk show. Her TEDx talk, Secrets from a Couple’s Therapist, was selected as a TED Editors’ Pick, reaching audiences worldwide with her message of courage, communication, and connection.

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 Endorsements

  • Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything Is Figureoutable

    What if the very conversations you’ve been avoiding are the key to deeper, stronger relationships? In The Cost of Quiet, Colette Jane Fehr reveals why conflict, when faced with courage, can be the greatest act of love. This book will change how you connect forever.”

  • Jessica Baum, LMHC, author of Anxiously Attached and Safe: An Attachment-Informed Guide to Building Secure Relationships

    This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever silenced themselves to keep the peace. Colette Fehr offers a liberating path forward—one rooted in honesty, connection, and the courage to speak up.”

  • Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul

    "In The Cost of Quiet, Colette Jane Fehr shines a compassionate light on the hidden toll of avoiding tough conversations. With clarity and heart, she shows that ‘conflict’ isn’t a dirty word and that speaking up with love can deepen connection, foster understanding and even save a marriage. If you want more harmony and happiness in your relationships, this book is a must-read."

  • George Faller, MS, LMFT, author of True Connection

    “It’s normal to fear conflict and want to avoid it at all costs. But staying silent when things get tough destroys relationships. Here’s the good news: you can learn to have the hard conversations with your partner that will actually save your marriage. The Cost of Quiet shows you how to speak up in your relationship—and why you must.

  • Katherine Woodward Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of What’s True About You

    —Katherine Woodward Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of What’s True About You

    The Cost of Quiet will give you the courage and clarity you need to finally start speaking up and showing up as your most authentic self. Fehr’s brilliant work is the medicine our world has been waiting for, helping countless people discover their power to keep it real and true. In doing so, she reveals the highest and best that love has to offer.” 

  • Darcy Lockwood, author of All the Rage 

    —Darcy Lockwood, author of All the Rage 

    "The Cost of Quiet makes a persuasive case for sharing our deepest vulnerabilities in our relationships—rather than reflexively shutting down or lashing out. Fehr leads the reader through the steps of identifying their own triggers, making sense of and taking responsibility for them, and communicating them in ways that can reach and move their partner.”

  • Gay Hendricks, author of The Big Leap

    —Gay Hendricks, author of The Big Leap

    Once in a while a book comes along that is so useful and to-the-point that one can only say: Get it now and put it to work for you. In The Cost of Quiet, Fehr correctly identifies a fundamental relationship problem: silence in the name of peace is the slayer of intimacy.” 

  • —Sally Hogshead, New York Times bestselling author of Fascinate

    A courageous and soul-stirring guide for anyone who longs to be heard. With bold compassion and practical brilliance, Colette Jane Fehr reveals how speaking with fierce honesty doesn’t create conflict, but instead sparks deeper connection and enduring intimacy.”

  • —Fran Hauser, bestselling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl 

    “This book is a compassionate, practical guide to having the hard conversations that truly deepen connection. It’s a must-read for anyone who wants to build secure, lasting love.” 

  • —Dr. Nadine Macaluso, author of Run Like Hell

    —Dr. Nadine Macaluso, author of Run Like Hell

    The book's central insight is revolutionary yet simple: staying quiet to ‘keep the peace’ actually creates the very disconnection we're trying to prevent. The Cost of Quiet offers hope that it's never too late to transform both your relationship with yourself and others through the power of truthful, loving communication. This is not just a book; it’s a transformative journey toward personal liberation.” 

  • —Juliana Hauser, PhD, LMFT, LPC, author of A New Position on Sex

    —Juliana Hauser, PhD, LMFT, LPC, author of A New Position on Sex

    “When we avoid hard conversations, it doesn’t just cost us emotionally; we see the fall out in our sexual lives. Fehr gives couples the language and courage to have conversations that deepen intimacy, spark desire, and create lasting sexual connections ... a brilliant, compassionate guide.”

  • Colette Jane Fehr

    Colette Fehr, author of The Cost of Quiet

    I wrote The Cost of Quiet to help people learn how to communicate, speak up, and build healthier relationships before it’s too late.

    This book is about healing, self-love, empowerment, emotional health, and learning to use your voice. Because silence has a cost and speaking up changes everything.

Self-Silencing comes with a cost, the slow unraveling of your closest bonds. But it doesn’t have to end that way.

The Cost of Quiet gives you the courage, tools, and strategies to speak up, reconnect, and fight for the love you deserve.

Your future self, and your relationships, are waiting. Don’t put this off another year. Get your copy today and make sure to follow the steps below to receive your toolkit.

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