Sahil Bloom
After Over A Decade Of Fighting Chronic Illness, Trauma Therapist And Beloved Author K.j. Ramsey Was The Healthiest She'd Been In Her Life. She Packed Up Her Jeep And Set Out On A Series Of Summer Road Trips Across America's National Parks, Returning To The Places She First Glimpsed Joy As A Kid And Chronicling The Journey Into A New Book. Her Aim Was More Than Adventure: A Personal Dare To Discover That No Matter How Much Life Hurts, Joy Is More Trustworthy Than Trauma. The Plan Was Simple But Bold: Drive. Write. Heal. What Could Go Wrong? It Turns Out, Everything. Just A Week After Returning Home For Ongoing Medical Treatment, All Of Ramsey's Grand Plans Came To A Crashing Halt. From Unexpected Surgery To Ongoing Severe Anaphylactic Shock, A Mysterious Illness Struck Through Kj's Life Like Lightning, Splintering The Best Days Of Her Life Into The Absolute Scariest. The Woman Who Wandered Through Redwood Forests And Ran Naked Into The Pacific Suddenly Found Herself Fighting To Stay Alive. Ramsey Lived, Only To Be Forced To Face The Hardest Dare Of All: How To Survive Her Own Survival. From The Hospital To Home, Kj Went From Being Afraid Of Dying To Afraid Of Living The Life She Was Left With, Losing Her Ability To Walk, Medically Gaslit, In Agonizing Pain, Needing Round-the-clock Care, And For Many Months, Having No Answers For Her Ailment Nor Path Back To Health. Was Joy Still Possible-even In Inescapable Pain? Told With Unhinged Humor, Lyrical Honesty, And Zero Patience For Toxic Positivity, The Place Between Our Pains Is A True Story That Reaches Past Our Expectations Of What Joy Can Survive. From Banana Slugs To Barbie Dolls, Mushrooms To The Mayo Clinic, Hospitals To Holy Rage, Ramsey Invites Us Into A Joy That Is Stronger Than Sorrow. This Is A Fierce Permission Slip To Show Up In The Stories We Never Would Have Written For Ourselves. As Ramsey Says, Joy Is Not A Prize For The Most Privileged But A Presence, Not A Task But A Thread, Weaving Us Into A Love Tha
New York : Convergent Books,