The LIFE Project
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Last published Wed, May 22, 2024
This is NOT a self-help book.
One month and three days away from turning 34, Misha Gerrick is feeling like her entire life imploded. The process started years ago, in 2014, but after years of staggering through loss after loss and day after day like life just isn't making any sense at all, one big question has started to hit her with one giant blow:
Is this REALLY what life is supposed to be?
This book will be difficult. It will go into some dark and thorny places as Misha digs into her experience and very existence to figure out this project called LIFE, and how to live it.
Someone else might find this process as a useful, painful, maybe even beautiful inroads into thinking some troublesome thoughts about what it all even means, but it is NOT a self-help book.
There is no one way to live life, and this is just about how one person decided to go about finding fulfilment and a sense of joy in the everyday business of living.
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