Peace Is a Practice

A gentle and meditative invitation to create more peace in our daily lives. Poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols learned to practice peace out of desperation. Because of long-undiagnosed autism, she would constantly find herself overwhelmed—on the brink of shutting down—and had to learn to make it through the difficult moments. She didn’t receive her diagnosis until age 27, after which she was finally able to understand why she’d needed to build coping strategies, and what could make them even more effective. Nichols insists peace isn’t something we merely hope for but practice, enacting it in everyday life through both general postures and specific exercises. While we can’t fix all of life’s problems through this practice, we can create breathing room. This encouraging volume occasionally references the Christian faith and is best enjoyed slowly over days or weeks, one chapter at a time. For fans of James Nestor’s Breath and Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights.