Discovery Simplified Time Travel Through Compassion
What if moving forward didn’t require leaving who you were behind?
A memoir. A journey. A collection of hearts.
- Past
- Present
- Future
- Still you
A collection of hearts
“We don’t leave our past behind.
We take it with us.”
Discovery Simplified explores the idea that our lives are made up of a collection of hearts: the child, the teenager, the person who struggled, the person who escaped, the person who loved, the person who broke, the person who survived, and the person we are still becoming.
We are often told that growing means letting go of who we used to be.
What if becoming someone new doesn’t require abandoning the people we have already been?
Discover the bookThe hearts
Different times. The same heart.
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The child Still here. Still curious.
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The teenager Still listening.
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The one who went looking Still searching for the door.
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The one who kept going Still carrying what he could.
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The one standing here Holding all of their hands.
“We cannot change what happened, but we can change how we hold the person it happened to.”
Time travel
through compassion
We cannot return to the past and change what happened.
But through memory, attention and compassion, perhaps we can return to the person it happened to.
And somewhere farther down the line, perhaps the person we are becoming can do the same for us.
Recovery Discovery
“I didn’t stop drinking so that life would stop hurting. I stopped drinking so that I would be there when it did.”
Discovery Simplified explores addiction and sobriety not only through stopping drinking, but through what happens afterward: when the time once spent escaping becomes the time in which you actually begin living.
Photography
“Long before I understood what nature was giving me, I kept pointing my camera toward it.”
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“The story is still being written.”
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