Thought Catalog - Ceremony - book

By Brianna Wiest. From Brianna Wiest — internationally bestselling author whose books have sold millions of copies in 40+ languages, featured on TODAY, Forbes, and Oprah Daily. Other people are not meant to love us in the exact way we think they should. They are meant to set up a healing ceremony at which we learn to love ourselves. "Ceremony" is the most spiritually expansive book in Brianna Wiest's catalog — and the one most unlike anything else she has written. Where The Mountain Is You is psychological, The Pivot Year is daily and devotional, and When You're Ready is focused on emotional healing, Ceremony moves into different territory: the place where the inner life meets the natural world, where self-love is understood not as confidence but as homecoming, and where the most ordinary moments — a closed door, a thing you must release, an encounter you didn't expect — are revealed as the ceremonies through which we come to know ourselves. Written in Wiest's most poetic register, the collection is built