Pre-Order "Look Up," my new book
A Guide for Navigating Life's Uncertainties & Finding Your Horizon
Dearest humans, my messy wanderers and triumphantly courageous beings, lifelong besties of the internet and new faces alike, it is with great pride and gratitude that I announce my new book, Look Up, is now available for pre-order.
Look Up is a collection of poems and short love notes:
Encouragement for times of wild uncertainty, loving reminders for recovery and change, and ultimately, small moments of great comfort: this is not who you are, this is something you are going through.
Reminders, to look up.
Why this book?
You will have seasons of life when you’ll wonder if anything will ever work out. You’ll doubt yourself or feel stuck. You’ll question if it’s worth trying to get up again when you’re just going to fall once more. You’ll feel seasons of hope and recovery and forget the painful ones. You’ll lose sight of how much you’ve grown and when the stuckness comes again, you’ll feel defeated. These seasons will come and go, rise and fall, and just like you, they’ll persist.
I find myself in this cycle often. Despite decades of therapy, research, and spiritual study, I return to a state of overwhelming loss. These periods can lead me to feeling hopeless and disgruntled, as if I’ve failed myself by coming back.
At times these cycles have kept me stuck long enough to wonder, will I ever emerge, or will I always find myself back here?
I remember (as I do every time I’m in this season of stuckness) that even though it feels like nothing is happening or coming together, and even though I have no idea what direction I’m going or how to get there, that one day I’ll look back on this time and say, “oh yeah, it was all working out, I just couldn’t see how then because I was in it.”
The truth is, we will find ourselves back here: in the doubt, in the stuck, in the loss. It is life’s natural balance: life and death, love and loss, pleasure and pain…to know one is to know the other, and it would be foolish to chase a life absent of any discomfort. Still, these seasons of pain have the ability to break us. Without the right support, tools, or compassion, our pain becomes suffering and we become truly stuck.
I hope this book finds you when you’re stuck. I hope this book finds you when you’re afraid. I hope this book finds you when you’re doubting that good things will come or when you’re seeped in grief or on the precipice of change. I hope this book can serve as the companion you may not have right now. The compassion you may not have access to. Wisdom you may feel too clouded to see or the tools you may feel too tired to reach for. I hope this book finds you when you’re ready to shift in the cycle and move forward in life.
When you’re ready to Look Up.
Samples from Look Up
It is an honor to finally bring this collection of pieces to you.
I have put my heart into this book and hope that in its pages, you find relief, hope, and a gentle reminder that you are oh so not alone.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here, for reading, and for looking up.