A Memoir By Jen Peer Rich

What if the house falling apart was your own body? What if healing meant learning to live with every broken part—without trying to fix them? The Alchemy of Being a House: A Memoir About The Body That Broke, The Voice That Barked, and The Home That Became Us is a fiercely intimate memoir of survival, spiritual reckoning, intergenerational healing and unexpected paths to self-acceptance. Told in two voices—Jen’s and Ruth’s, her loyal inner watchdog—it moves through fragments and thresholds, stitching memory to meaning with poetic clarity .This is not a story about becoming whole by getting better. It’s about becoming true by letting every part belong. It’s about finding miracles in the mud. First in the Circle of Selves Trilogy, this memoir opens the door to a radically tender way of living with our pain, our past, our present, and all the selves we’ve ever been..