What We Carry: At the Edge of Healing
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What We Carry: At the Edge of Healing is the first in a three-book series exploring the emotional weight we carry through life-grief, love, memory, hope, heartbreak, resilience, identity, fear, grace, and the quiet strength it takes to keep moving forward.
With warmth, honesty, and soul, Lori Hurt invites readers into the tender spaces between loss and healing, where laughter can exist beside sorrow, hope can rise slowly, and beauty can still be found in life's most fragile moments. These essays are not about having all the answers or tying every wound into a neat little bow. They are about learning to sit with ourselves, honor what we've lived through, and discover who we are becoming along the way.
Through reflective storytelling and gentle truth-telling, this collection creates space to pause, breathe, remember, and reconnect with the parts of ourselves that life may have asked us to set aside. Lori writes with the understanding that healing is not a straight road. It bends, pauses, circles back, surprises us, and sometimes asks us to begin again before we feel ready. Yet within that unfolding, there is wisdom. There is softness. There is strength.
What We Carry speaks to anyone who has carried pain quietly, loved deeply, lost something precious, started over, or wondered how to keep going while still holding everything they have survived. It offers a compassionate companion for readers navigating grief, change, healing, self-discovery, or the quiet work of becoming whole in new ways.
Whether read in a season of loss, transition, reflection, or renewal, this book offers a gentle reminder that we are not alone in what we carry-and that even at the edge of healing, there is still room for meaning, grace, and unexpected beauty.
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