Dear Human

by Kay Eck

Just when you might need it most, the universe has sent you a love letter disguised as your life. In it, you will find the answer to every pressing question you may have about who you are and why you are here. This letter has been adoringly penned to help you know, accept, and love yourself more deeply than you ever thought possible. All you have to do is hold it in your trembling hands and read it. Dear Human is a companion volume to a lesson-filled life that can only lead to the invincible truth of your radiant light. Immerse yourself in the mystery and depth of your gorgeous life like a letter you can't wait to tear open. Let your ears, mind, and heart be filled with its compelling poetry. -Kay Eck
None of us navigates the human journey without dancing with both ghosts and angels. With Dear Human, Kay Eck delivers a travel guide for the road ahead filled with pragmatic doses of sacred encouragement, clear-eyed reminders, and gentle but potent medicine. It encourages the reader to view life as a love letter penned to accompany them through the labyrinth of unique lessons we each came to learn. Infused with the author's poetry, reflections, and prayers, Dear Human invites us into the confluence of miracles that is the human path, celebrating both the mundane and the magnificent. We are neither alone nor without guidance as every step takes us closer the mastery that eases the weary heart and excites the inner spark so that eventually, everything we meet feels like buried treasure.

188 pages, Hardcover

Published June 25, 2021

About the author

Having been around for a minute, having done lots of things, I've noticed that what feels most urgent and relevant is who we are becoming in this moment. It is so vital there in that moment. Everything is at stake and yet nothing is riding on the outcome. Anything is possible but we must be so consciously involved in that potentiality. My joy and hope is that I can express the deepest truths as I understand them in the most accessible way so that your own journey becomes more clear, present and beautiful.

I am currently at work on a third book, a novel called Land, Sister, Sky. It's the story of two soul sisters whose friendship will be tested by tragedy, healed by nature, and held in unconditional love from Mississippi to Baltimore to the San Gabriel Mountains and deserts of California. Look for release date in 2025.

My second book, Dear Human, accompanies the reader through the labyrinth of life lessons with sacred encouragement and gentle, practical medicine. Dear Human, inspires us each to become the profoundly beautiful and invincible souls that we are.

My first book, Divorce: a love story, is an exploration of my experience through conscious uncoupling which illuminates a way forward that champions our greatest struggles as opportunities for our deepest growth.

Check out my podcast, Alive & Kicking: stories of waking up on all the podcast platforms and YouTube.

Listen in to my monthly Panel Chats with some incredibly wise women about the pressing issues of our inner and outer path on Facebook and YouTube.

Find me at:

https://www.kayeck.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kay.eck.79
https://www.instagram.com/kayeckwrites/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKNf...

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

* The topic of making time for oneself and learning to love yourself is certainly not new, but it is here presented simply and elegantly. Kay Eck shares experience and insight into the ways that learning to love yourself enriches every aspect of being human.

I was intrigued at the beginning, mostly by the style and approach of the book. The idea of life being a “river of love,” a poetically apt metaphor, propelled me onward. By the third chapter, “Dear Human, Life will ask things of you,” I was completely hooked. About halfway into the chapter, Eck speaks about “compassion” in ways that I simply want to copy and paste all over the Internet (and, honestly, I probably will, with a recommendation for this book); here’s just one sentence: “Compassion has a lot of space in it for things to be as they are.” Sublime.

Once I got going, I couldn’t stop. I read straight through to the acknowledgments. This rather small book is large in scope, offering both “oh, yes! (It’s not just me)” moments and “aha” moments. At times the book may seem a bit new-agey, but Eck also discusses her firm belief in God.

For someone like me who is deeply spiritual in my belief in God but struggles with the judgmental tendencies of rural organized churches, this (nondenominational?) viewpoint of an omnipotent God who bestows unconditional love on me and all other humans offers much that can not only reflect but also propel my journey to becoming a better human by learning to love myself.

*Note: I received a copy of this book through a Goodreads Giveaway; however, that has not in any way influenced my review. I enter giveaways only for books that I am otherwise interested in reading.

[Karen May]

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