LOOK UP

From Rachel Havekost — writer, mental health advocate, M.S. in psychology, and bestselling author. She has attended Harvard's first Mental Health Creator's Summit, given keynotes at the 988 Global Crisis Conference in Amsterdam, and received praise from New York Times mental health journalist Ellen Barry for her memoir. Her combined social media following of 300,000+ is a community built specifically around de-stigmatizing mental health.

"Look Up" is a poetry collection and set of short love notes organized as a map — not a how-to, not a workbook, not a guide with steps. A hand to hold while you find your own way through. It is divided into seven sections, each named for a stage of the journey and written with a specific reading instruction so you can find exactly where you are:

• Holding On — Read this when you feel stuck or trapped or unable to see what's next. When all you want is to go back in time. Read this when it's time to begin again. 
• Opening the Heart — Read this when you know it's time to move on, even if it hurts. Even if you still love what's lost. Read this when you're letting go. 
• Roaming Free — Read this when you feel lost in life. When nothing is certain and all that's familiar is behind you. Read this when you've finally let go. 
• Integrating — Read this when you're starting to know yourself. When you're learning what it means to be free. Read this when you're becoming you. 
• Zooming Out — Read this when you've healed or recovered or done the work and you're ready to test your new wings. 
• Opening the Mind — Read this when you doubt yourself. When old voices creep in. When you wonder if all that work was for nothing. Read this when life is testing everything you've worked for. 
• Navigating Forward — Read this when you're at the end of things. When your heart breaks again. Read this when something is over.

You'll find what you need no matter where you start — because, as Havekost writes: "The truth is we are always at the beginning, constantly at the end, and forever right here, in the middle. There is no right way, there is the only way you do it."