Always Arising: Seeking Solace in an Isolated World

By Meg Grasmick

Full of wisdom and wit, this personal growth book is a guide to living out your greatest fulfillment. Always Arising

• Language: English
• Publisher: Margaret Grasmick
• Release date: Mar 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781950685653

Meg Grasmick

Meg Grasmick is from Baltimore, MD, and earned degrees from Westmont College and New York University. She currently works as a content marketing strategist in the startup space. Meg is passionate about creating meaning rather than searching for it and hopes to help her readers do the same.

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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-950685-64-6

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-950685-66-0

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-950685-65-3

Contents

1 You Are Always on the Right Path

2 You Don’t Write Your Story—You Tell It

3 Is Happiness the End Goal?

4 You Can’t Be Whole Again If You Never Break

5 What Are You Looking For?

6 It’s Not the Experience—It’s How You Frame It

7 You Are Always in a Relationship with Yourself

8 Gratitude Is Not Inherent—It’s Learned

9 Heartbreak Is Not How the Story Ends

10 All Shall Be Well in Time

Preface

I started this book when I was navigating a tough life transition. I had just moved from sleepy Santa Barbara to sleepless New York City. I became a regular at The Bean in Union Square where I’d wait for my six-dollar cappuccino, scouring the hipster haven for a place to sit, and pull meaning from the cognitive dissonance I carried down the avenues and streets into that space.

I faced new challenges shedding my old life and reinventing myself in New York. It’s a city that teaches some of the harshest lessons before you learn how to adapt and become the strongest version of yourself. And if you didn’t get a little tougher, did you really live in NYC?

My motivation for writing this is to turn the pain of the past into something that lives on the page. It’s also my way of transforming uncertainty about the future into an encouragement for those who experience something—anything—congruent. The human experience is nothing if not iterative and unitive.

Above all, this book is a call to action for those seeking fulfillment in the future, whenever that is—but more on that later. I’ll admit we’re going to go down some rabbit holes, but stick with me.

Our lives are full of occasions when we reap the physiological rewards of getting what we want, either