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You Are Enough began as a collection of essays from our SmallStack guest post series. We invited this community to create something new, sincere, and insightful about being small, and we received touching pieces about love, acceptance, grief, joy, creativity, and community.

“All we have is small,” by Jamie Wallace, chips away at the barriers we construct around perfection and how long it takes to achieve our own impressions of success. Alexa Spiegel’s “Is Substack better than therapy,” and Amanda Gibson’s “A new diagnosis” each tackle how we heal through our connections with others, even-especially-when that healing challenges our identity. “Small is where the best connections are made,” by Sarah Teresa Cook, “Enough to be happy,” by Kate Brennan, and “Beyond questions big and small” by Sarah Sadie use introspection and delightful imagery in embracing small as its own choice in the face of growth metrics. They help us view the world through the lens of laughter, wonder, and gratitude. Would any book about small stories be complete without a bakery and a moment spent in wonder at how monkeys and humans form friendship through communication?

You Are Enough was produced entirely (and so, so lovingly) with volunteer labor, so we have decided to sell it at cost. We will sell future books for a profit, first and foremost so that we can pay our writers and cover illustrators, and also because book sales help fund future books!