What We Carry: At the Edge of Healing

We do not leave our past behind. We carry it. In What We Carry: At the Edge of Healing, Lori Hurt offers nine reflective essays exploring the lived experience of emotion-pain, confusion, sadness, fear, anxiety, anticipation, joy, love, and peace. Organized into three movements-Excavation, Standing in Motion, and Settled Living-this collection traces the journey from survival to steadiness. Rather than promising resolution, these essays inhabit the space between reaction and regulation, where awareness replaces urgency and presence becomes practice. This is not a story of triumph. It is a study of what it means to live consciously with what shaped us-to extend compassion without losing ourselves, to rest without vigilance, and to find steadiness even when life continues to move. Healing here is not a destination. It is a way of living.

Pagina's: 44, Paperback, Independently published