From New York Times bestselling author Kris Carr, comes a
transformational book about love, loss, and all the life-changing
insights we receive when we embrace them.
A few years ago, Kris Carr's world was falling apart. Her father was
dying, she had to pivot her business because of the pandemic, and she
was on the verge of reaching her twenty-year milestone of living with an
incurable Stage IV cancer diagnosis.
While sitting in a CVS parking lot, she broke down, finally allowing
herself to feel the massive stress and sadness she had been suppressing
in order to seem strong for those around her, and for herself.
And then she asked herself, "If embracing my intense emotions helped me
feel even the slightest bit better, why was I so determined to avoid
them? And given how all-encompassing this hint of catharsis felt, where
else in my life have I been avoiding grief?"
In this book, Kris shares her (embarrassing, painful, helpful,
hilarious, and sometimes inappropriate) stories and observations about
what to expect when you're not expecting your world to fall apart.
If your life has been turned upside down--whether it be the dissolving
of a relationship or marriage, the end of a job or career, any other
number of significant unexpected transitions. . . or, like Kris, you are
wrestling with the pain that comes from an illness or the death of a
loved one, this book is filled with real-life experiences, practices,
and insights that can help you feel better--not cured--but better.
It will provide comfort and community as you learn that these big messy
emotions can be a catalyst to take inventory of your life, figure out
what matters most, and reset. . . because as Kris says, "when we're
brave enough to tend to our hearts: Our messy emotions can teach us how
to be free--not free from pain, but free from the fear of pain and the
barrier it creates to fully living."
