To rise high, you must root deep.

We are taught to think of growth as rising - reaching, achieving, climbing, becoming more. But the tallest trees do not blow over in the storm, and the reason is underground, in roots that reach as deep as the branches reach high. Real, lasting growth, Grace Holloway shows, requires both: the deep roots that ground and steady us, and the healthy reaching toward the light. Not one or the other. Both, together, growing as one.

In this steady, grounded, quietly wise book, Holloway draws on the patient wisdom of trees and gardens and seasons to offer a whole way of growing a strong life. Writing with a naturalist's warmth, she guides you through the deep work of rooting - grounding yourself in your values, your core, your practices and relationships, and tending the soil of your conditions - and the reaching work of rising - growing toward the light, at your own pace, through all the seasons of growth.

Along the way she offers a grounded, seasoned wisdom for the whole of a growing life: weathering the storms that topple the shallow-rooted, honoring the fallow winters when dormancy is not death but rest, pruning what needs to be let go, bending without breaking, putting down roots again after being uprooted, and, in maturity, giving the shade and fruit that a well-grown life can offer others.

You are made to grow like a tree - rooted and rising, grounded and growing, deep and tall. Root deep, reach high, and grow.