If You Lived Here

If You Lived Here is the unflinching memoir of Jessica Welsby — a woman who spent the better part of her life searching for something most people take for granted. Home. Written with brutal honesty and a darkly sardonic wit, Welsby charts the wreckage and the beauty of a life lived at full volume — from crippling anxiety and self destruction, to the kind of love that hollows you out and the kind that quietly saves you. She writes about the people who shaped her, the ones who broke her, and the ones she broke free of. About the specific exhaustion of being too much for every room you walk into, and what it costs to keep moving when everything in you wants to stop. Raw, literary, and fiercely alive on every page — If You Lived Here is not a story about recovery in the traditional sense. It is something rarer and more honest than that. It is the story of a woman who finally stopped looking outward for the thing she had been carrying inside her all along.