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The World is Still Beautiful: A Book About Returning To Myself (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Biographies GeneralAbuseSelf-Help
Publisher: Jessica K Russell
Published: Jul 9 2026
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The World Is Still Beautiful: A Book About Returning to Myself is a memoir about survival, self-love, and the long journey of coming back to oneself after harm. Jessica K. Russell writes through childhood neglect, family rupture, homelessness, domestic violence, workplace trauma, community organizing, mental-health crisis, and the complicated grief of loving people who could not always love her safely. Moving between memory and reflection, the book tells the story of a girl who learned to survive by becoming useful, quiet, and responsible for everyone else's comfort - and the woman who slowly began to reclaim her voice, her body, her truth, and her right to exist beyond pain.
This book is both memoir and healing companion. Alongside Jessica's life story are reflective passages, pauses, and self-help tools that invite the reader to consider their own relationship to shame, boundaries, grief, accountability, trauma, repair, and self-trust. The purpose of the book is not to offer a perfect formula for healing, but to create a place of witness. It is written for people who have felt unseen, abandoned, misunderstood, used, or afraid that their pain made them too much to love. It asks the reader to believe that healing is not about becoming untouched by what happened, but about learning how to stop abandoning yourself in response to it.
At its heart, The World Is Still Beautiful: A Book About Returning to Myself is a book about returning. Returning to the body after shame. Returning to joy after survival. Returning to truth after years of confusion. Returning to creativity, community, softness, and self-belief after being taught to disappear. Jessica hopes readers leave this book feeling less alone, more honest with themselves, and more willing to treat their own lives as worthy of care. Above all, this book is an invitation to keep going, to tell the truth, to trust the voice within, and to remember that even after everything, the world can still be beautiful.
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