Hideaways is divided into four parts - pain, love, dreams, and ending - because that's the shape a life tends to take. We start in the dark, learning how to carry what hurts. We find love, for others, and slowly, painstakingly, for ourselves. We return to the dreams we almost let go of. And we find a way to make peace with our ending, whatever it may look like.This isn't a collection about having it all figured out. It's about still standing after all the times you weren't sure you would. It's about the inner child we're always trying to reach back for. It's about the manufactured shells we wear, and the slow, brave work of taking them off."All of us are a compilation of moments. Those that are long gone, and those that have yet to happen. Let us collect them together, so we can grow in a peaceful knowing we are never alone."That's what I wrote at the front of this book. It's still the truest thing I know.