Matt Ball has spent years working as a funeral celebrant, sitting with hundreds of families in the hardest moments of their lives and writing the words that get spoken about a person once their story is complete. What struck him, again and again, was what actually gets remembered. Not the achievements or the titles. The person. Who they were. How they loved. What they overcame.

That work eventually turned inward. The Book of You is Matt's own honest reading of his life, including the chapters he spent decades trying to close, and what became possible once he finally understood what they had written into him.

He also works as a narrative coach, helping others do the same kind of honest reading of their own story, and continues to facilitate grief support in his community.

This book was written in the belief that the chapters already lived can be read clearly, and that the chapters still ahead are worth choosing on purpose.

I am worthy. I am loved. I am me. And that is enough.