I recently was recommended a book for my TBR that couldn’t be more timely for Shadow Season, Heidi Priebe’s This is Me, Letting You Go.

Written for anyone who has ever had to release someone or something they love, this book is equal parts poetry, reflection, and gentle guidance through the often-painful process of letting go.

Priebe has a unique gift for putting words to the emotions we struggle to name. Her writing doesn’t just describe heartbreak — it validates it. Each page feels like a conversation with someone who gets it, someone who has sat in the same dark place and found a way forward.

Particularly compelling, as a sample, are the 14 Things You Should Forgive Yourself For:

1. The big things that you changed your mind about.

2. The ways in which you fought through pain.

3. The person you could never love properly.

4. The fries that you ate with your lunch.

5. All the ways in which you are not enough.

6. The way you treated your parents when you were sixteen.

7. The way you treated yourself most of your life.

8. The useless degree you took in college.

9. The breaks that you took from life.

10. The chances you didn’t take.

11. The things you didn’t say until it was too late.

12. The disasters you didn’t see coming.

13. Whatever you still are not ready for.

14. The mistakes you haven’t even made yet.