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by Mark Leary

When you look back on your life, can you see how all the years fit together?I couldn't. And that felt like a problem.I couldn’t see a throughline, something that connected little me to big me.And if I couldn’t see a throughline, what else was I missing?I wondered whether I was living as fully as I could or was I just letting time pass me by.So, I began the task of excavating my past in order to make better sense of my present.And that started by asking the questions I’ve always wondered about.Story by story, memory by memory, and question by question, I started finding bits and pieces of me tucked in here and there in my history.Can you relate?My guess is you can. And that's why I'm sharing these stories with you.My hope is that, in reading this book, you'll also find a piece (or many) of your self and your own story here; that you'll find a safe place to reflect on who you are, how the pieces of your own life fit together to form a whole; and a space to consider what a life lived with more grace, and more self-compassion, and little more tenderness might look like.

383 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2023