G. S. Maher / Gerard Stephen Maher
Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
For the one in the fire right now. For the broken who choose to heal.This is not a guide for the curious - it is for the desperate, for those who have looked at the alternative and chosen to burn consciously instead. For those who have felt everything, carried everyone else’s pain, and slowly disappeared in the process. For those who know, with absolute certainty, that something must change.From the other side of the burning comes this witness: what breaks you open is not the end. It is the beginning.Through four fires - the breaking, the purifying, the transformation, the wholeness - this work traces the path of the soul from devastation to genuine, enduring wholeness. Not the false wholeness of unbrokenness. The real thing. The kind that includes the scar. The kind that knows the dark and knows it does not last forever.Sixteen chapters, each one a station on the way through. Practices that work in the body, not only the mind. Reflections to return to at different seasons of the healing. A threshold poem to begin, a blessing to close, and the prophetic song 'Through Every Fire' - the whole journey held in three verses, a bridge, and a chorus that ends where the book ends: not the one who entered, but who the fire made.This is the founding text of Fire Community Books - the source from which the whole body of work first emerged. It stands alone, complete in itself, written from the other side of the flame by one who kept going anyway.Your sensitivity is not your wound. It is the gift the wound was protecting.ISBN: 978-1-0667755-9-0 · Fire Community Books, County Clare, Ireland
