Connect: An Experience in Belonging is both a balm and a call to action to become the villager, to take the soup, to show up imperfectly, honestly, heartmade.
Grab a coffee and cozy up. Enjoy that moment because you won’t stay seated for long after reading Connect: An Experience in Belonging.
This e-book is a soulful exploration of what it means to build, nurture, and remember community in a disconnected world. Through personal stories, reflections, and gentle invitations, Jacki Carr explores the art of belonging. From the public library to the ocean’s edge, from soup swaps to “Pizza Fridays on the Beach”, this book requests of you to be in the active design of community.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
+ A redefined meaning of community in words, action and a felt sense of belonging.
+ Simple rituals to build connection from everyday coffee dates to creating your own third places.
+ Permission to be inconvenient and to find beauty in the mess of this human life.
+ Perspective shifts from loneliness to belonging, from closed door to open house style gatherings.
+ Reflections to help you locate where you belong and what you’re ready to create next.
This isn’t a manual. It is a remembering.
A guide back to what makes us human: each other.
This book is written for anyone who:
+ feels the quiet ache of disconnection.
+ women navigating change, new chapters, or a longing for deeper, real-life connection.
+ for the seekers, the movers, the mothers, the creatives, and the community builders who want to slow down, show up, and remember that they already belong.
+ for you. for us.
Top 5 takeaways from the book:
You belong here already.
To have the village, become the villager.
Show up with the soup or to your local library.
Community is often inconvenient. And that is okay.
Embrace the imperfections as a portal to connection.
Why Buy It Now
Because community can’t wait.
Because the world needs more villagers, not more followers.
Because you’re craving real connection and it starts right where you are.
This book meets you in the in-between, between moves, careers, friendships, or phases, and reminds you that you belong, right now, exactly as you are.
