The Life You Carry
A Validating Guide to Life After Trauma
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The Life You Carry
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Narrated by:
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Louise Cooksey's voice replica
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By:
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Maura Holloway
This title uses a narrator's voice replica
About this listen
Trauma does not always look dramatic from the outside. Sometimes it looks like overthinking in the grocery store, exhaustion after ordinary conversations, flinching at small sounds, struggling to trust kindness, or feeling like a stranger to yourself in your own life.
In The Life You Carry, Maura Holloway offers a deeply compassionate guide for trauma survivors who are tired of feeling ashamed of how hard life still feels. With gentleness, honesty, and steady reassurance, this book explores the quiet, everyday realities of living after trauma, including the body that still braces, the hidden weight of functioning while hurting, the shame that never belonged to you, and the slow work of building a life with more softness in it.
Validating, comforting, and full of grace, The Life You Carry is not about performing healing or rushing recovery. It is about feeling seen, understood, and less alone. For anyone who has ever wondered why life still feels heavier than it should, this book offers something simple and powerful: the reminder that your pain makes sense, your survival matters, and you do not have to earn gentleness.
©2026 Maura Holloway (P)2026 Maura Holloway