When the Ache Remains: Lessons on Tending to the Unfixable and Finding Beauty Anyway

For fans of How We Heal and Keep Moving, therapist and author of Already Enough, Lisa Olivera blends her own personal experience of battling depression with therapeutic wisdom in a moving exploration of the emotional pain each of us lives with, offering readers guidance on creating a life of presence and beauty not without it, but alongside the various aches we carry. Emotional pain, of all kinds and magnitudes, is part of life.We'll never be able to find ourselves free of it; no meditation or amount of therapy will cure us of the harder parts of being alive.The practice of turning toward the ache with care - reverence, even - might be one of the most meaningful gifts we can give ourselves.It might even save us. Lisa Olivera has confronted this reality for years as a therapist, weaving her exploration of it throughout her popular newsletter, Human Stuff.She asks questions like, how do we confront and tend to the painful parts of being human without letting that pain entirely overtake u