LOOK UP

A Guide For Navigating Life’s Uncertainties & Finding Your Horizon

Look Up is a collection of poems and short love notes:

Encouragement for times of wild uncertainty, loving reminders for recovery and change, and ultimately, small moments of great comfort: this is not who you are, this is something you are going through.

Reminders, to look up.

this is not who you are.
this is something you're going through.

look up.

About LOOK UP

LOOK UP is divided into seven sections:

HOLDING ON

Read this when you feel like you can’t let go. When you feel stuck or trapped or unable to see what’s next. When all you want is to go back in time, when the future looks hazy, when it’s easier to feel pain in the familiar than find peace in the unknown.

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. even if you’re not ready.

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 feel aimless and without direction, naked and exposed, raw and unhinged.

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. When you’re bound to no one but you, and for the first time in your life, you like what you see in the mirror. Read this when you’ve met the version of yourself you always knew existed, even if it’s scary, even if it’s foreign, even if it’s painful.

Read this when you’re becoming you.

ZOOMING OUT

Read this when you’re branching back out. When you’ve healed or recovered or done the work and you’re ready to test your new wings. Read this when you’ve discovered more of who you are and what you want, and when it’s time to venture out into the world and find it.

OPENING THE MIND

Read this when you doubt yourself. When your mind plays tricks on you or old voices creep in. When you wonder if all that work was for nothing or if anything will ever change. Read this when life is testing everything you’ve worked for, and you need reminders of how far you’ve come.

NAVIGATING FORWARD

Read this when you’re at the end of things. When you’re facing more change. When your heart breaks again or you once again feel stuck.

Read this when something is over.

You’ll find what you need no matter where you start, for 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.

THINK OF THIS BOOK AS A MAP OF SORTS

A tender guide for moving through life’s big questions, love lost, and hearts found. This guide is not meant to be a how-to or what-to-do; it serves as a hand to hold while you forge your own path.

I invite you to read from beginning to end, especially if you are finding yourself in a time of grief, uncertainty, or on the precipice of change.

Of course, this is your book, your life, and your time, so if you want to flip through the pages and land somewhere in the middle and start there, please do.

You’ll find what you need no matter where you start, for 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.

A peek inside LOOK UP

one day you'll look back on this time of your life with awe and say, 'that was the part where I sat with my pain. that was the part where I stopped kicking. that was the part where I had the courage to feel it all. that was the part where I finally let go.'

I have put my heart into this book and hope that in its pages, you find relief, hope, and a gentle reminder that you are oh so not alone.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here, for reading, and for looking up.

XO - Rach