Wind Through Quiet Tensions is a book about personal healing, uncertainty, and optimism.
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Pre-Order: Wind Through Quiet Tensions (Third Edition) by Adam Grossi
Pre-Order: Wind Through Quiet Tensions (Third Edition) by Adam Grossi
Originally published in 2014, Wind Through Quiet Tensions is a combination of memoir and contemplations. The first section focuses on a twelve-year period of Adam Grossi's life: his journey with mental illness, psychotherapy, and therapeutic applications of yoga and ayurveda. The second section is a collection of working theories: musings on what it meant for him to be sick and how he's been able to heal.
Wind Through Quiet Tensions is designed by Matt Austin and features Adam Grossi's drawings preceding each section.
Pre-orders for the Third Edition are due to ship in July.
The paperback second edition was published in 2014 by Candor Arts.
The first edition was published by The Chicago Perch, a creative platform for social exchange. There is a hand-bound, hardcover edition of 50 (sold out) and a perfect bound edition of 250 (sold out).
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