I have a new book out: The Rooms That Hold Us: Storms, Survival, and the Gatherings That Remake a People. The Kindle edition is available now on Amazon.
What it’s about
Everyone gets hit by storms eventually. We don’t choose them. They choose us, we get through them or we don’t, and the ones we survive change us for good. This book asks what happens after that, and it focuses on one specific thing: the rooms where people come together to talk about what happened, heal from it, and grow.
My argument is that these gatherings matter beyond the people inside them. When personal transformation is brought back into a group, it can spread. Through history, small rooms full of people who survived something have changed the direction of whole communities. The book follows that pattern through historical examples, and I’ve woven my own story through it as well.
Why it matters to me
I didn’t want to write a soft book on this subject. For many people, getting through the storm is a matter of life and death, and the book treats it that way. It’s written for general readers, not specialists. There’s a spiritual element in these rooms, and I didn’t strip it out. I tried to describe it honestly.
The cover
The cover is one of my own artworks. It felt right for a book this personal to carry something I made by hand.
If you read it, I’d really like to hear what it brought up for you. And if it reminds you of someone going through their own storm, please pass it along.
Get the Kindle edition: The Rooms That Hold Us on Amazon
