An experience in creating community through story, reflection and belonging.

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.

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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.

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  • "If you feel like there is something missing and you aren't sure what it is, perhaps it is the connections and community you hold. I highly recommend this book to help you see and understand the importance as well as to go out and start forging your own communities!"

    - Sarah B.

  • "This book isn't just about finding community. It's about becoming a villager. It's about being willing to be slightly inconvenienced. It's about restoration through connection. And it made me want to take "let me know what you need" out of my vocabulary and just show up with soup instead."

    - Mary Beth L.

  • "Jacki has a way of storytelling that connects straight to the heart, it’s raw, it’s real and relatable. This ebook reminds me of the importance of showing up even when it’s inconvenient, that I love being the catalyst for community building and that we are not meant to do this life alone. The wheels are spinning for how I can show up better within my little nook of the world."

    - Jenna Z.

This book is written for anyone who:

+ feels the quiet ache of disconnection.

+ anyone 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.

4 Reasons to Buy It Now?

  1. You’re tired of surface-level living. Me too.
    This e-book offers real stories and tangible ways to build community that feels meaningful, not performative.

  2. You’re ready for a gentle reset.
    The reflections, rituals, and stories help you slow down and reconnect with what actually matters.

  3. You want to feel inspired, not just informed.
    Each chapter weaves soul and practical action in a way that stirs something real inside you.

  4. Because the world needs more villagers.
    Community can’t wait and this book gives you the permission and tools to begin (or begin again) today.

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Meet the Author

I am Jacki Carr, a writer, speaker, coach, and mother.

I write and teach about belonging, change, and the art of showing up as yourself. My work invites women to slow down, listen in, and remember that community starts with one brave, honest connection.

My family recently left our beloved nook in Maine and moved to Colorado. We are in the thick of (re)building community, taking new and old friends soup and befriending the mountains we call home.

I will meet you in the pages and then hopefully, IRL.

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