About this Event
Country Bookshelf is excited to welcome K.J. Ramsey, author of the new book .
Tickets are not required for this event, but RSVPs are appreciated. Please RSVP by reserving a free general admission ticket on this page.
Books can be purchased at the event or ordered in advance on our website or by calling Country Bookshelf at (406) 587-0166.
The event at a glance:
- On May 26, please arrive early to secure your seat. Seating is general admission, first come, first served.
- At 6:00pm, the program will begin. The author will take audience questions following the program.
- After the talk, the author will sign books.
- Can't attend in person? Order a signed copy of the book on our website or by calling (406) 587-0166. Signing requests will need to be placed 24 hours before the event.
ABOUT THE PLACE BETWEEN OUR PAINS
After over a decade of fighting chronic illness, trauma therapist and beloved author K.J. Ramsey was the healthiest she’d been in her life. She packed up her Jeep and set out on a summer of road trips, returning to the places where she first glimpsed joy as a kid. More than adventure, her aim was a personal dare to discover that joy is more trustworthy than trauma.
The plan was simple but bold: Drive. Write. Heal. What could go wrong?
It turns out, everything.
The woman who just wandered through Redwood forests and ran naked into the Pacific suddenly found herself in the hospital fighting to stay alive. A mysterious illness struck like lightning, splintering the best days of her life into the absolute scariest. Ramsey went from being afraid of dying to afraid of living the life she was left with—losing both her mobility and the language of her faith, medically gaslit, with no map out of her misery. Was joy actually a trick? Or was joy still possible—even in inescapable pain?
Told with unhinged humor, lyrical honesty, and zero patience for toxic positivity, The Place Between Our Pains is a true story that reaches past our expectations of what joy can survive. From banana slugs to bedpans, mushrooms to the Mayo Clinic, hospitals to holy rage, Ramsey invites us into the unlikely places where joy lives. Through a full year of recovery, she encounters love that doesn’t leave—even when life doesn’t get easier. This is a love letter to every life seared by pain or autoimmune disease and a fierce permission slip to show up in the stories we never would have written for ourselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
K.J. Ramsey is an increasingly feral mystic who is utterly devoted to the joy of being alive. She is a body-centered licensed professional counselor specialized in trauma recovery and an acclaimed author of prose and poetry, including The Book of Common Courage, The Lord Is My Courage, and This Too Shall Last, as well as the bestselling essay Substack Embodied. KJ advocates for fellow autoimmune patients and lives in Colorado with her husband Ryan, a hospice chaplain, and their two velcro dogs.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Country Bookshelf, 28 West Main Street, Bozeman, United States
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