The book

I'm Allowed

120 short permissions, tender essays, and pauses — a hardcover companion for people learning to come home to themselves.

A book of permissions

I’m

Allowed

Vol. I

A quiet, generous book for the parts of you still learning they were never a problem to fix.

  • — 224 pages, hardcover with linen spine
  • — Signed bookplate with every order
  • — Read cover to cover or open to any page
  • — Ships worldwide, printed responsibly
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A passage

“You do not have to be finished to be worthy of the room. Come in unfinished. Come in mid-sentence. Come in still learning the name of what you feel. There is a chair here for the version of you that arrived today.”

— from Chapter IV, Permission to Grow

Inside the book

I

Permission to Feel

On tender weather and the wisdom of tears.

II

Permission to Pause

Small doors out of the noise.

III

Permission to Grieve

The long, slow country of loss.

IV

Permission to Grow

You are allowed to become.

V

Permission to Rest

You do not have to earn your softness.

VI

Permission to Speak

Say the true thing gently.

VII

Permission to Change

Outgrow the plan; keep the person.

VIII

Permission to Be

Belong to yourself first.