The Pain That Wasn't Mine

von Spring Hill

136 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Maeve Hawthorne has spent her entire life believing that feeling another person's pain is a form of compassion.When someone is afraid, she feels their fear.When someone is grieving, their grief floods through her.When someone is consumed by anger, she can experience that anger as if it were burning inside her own body.It is a gift that has made her both extraordinarily sensitive and dangerously vulnerable.Maeve was taught to absorb suffering rather than resist it. She learned to become a vessel for emotions other people could no longer carry. For years, she believed this was what it meant to help.Then she meets Victor.Victor is drowning in rage after the death of his daughter, Maya. His grief has become so powerful that it manifests as a violent psychic "Static," threatening to consume everyone around him. When Maeve touches him, his pain crashes into her consciousness with overwhelming force.For the first time, she understands the danger of her ability.Victor's suffering is not simply something she can absorb and remove. The more she takes, the less of herself remains. His grief becomes her exhaustion. His anger becomes her rage. His memories begin competing with her own identity.And someone is encouraging her to surrender.Victoria, a mysterious woman with her own extraordinary relationship to emotional suffering, sees Maeve's gift as a source of power. She wants Maeve to stop resisting and embrace the ability to consume the pain of others. To Victoria, suffering is energy-and Maeve could become powerful enough to take it all.But Maeve remembers another lesson.She is not a sponge.She is not a dam.She is not responsible for carrying every wound she encounters.As Victor's rage reaches a breaking point, Maeve faces her greatest test. Instead of absorbing his suffering, she discovers another possibility: she can allow pain to pass through her without becoming it. She creates a "Quiet Room" within herself-a space of stillness where another person's grief can exist without destroying her identity.The transformation changes everything.Victor's rage finally collapses into genuine mourning. The darkness surrounding him begins to dissolve, not because Maeve stole his pain, but because she gave him enough stillness to experience it himself.Yet Maeve's journey is far from over. Victoria's manipulation has exposed a deeper conflict between compassion and attachment, between helping others and losing oneself in their suffering.To survive, Maeve must learn the most difficult lesson of her life: compassion does not require self-destruction.The Pain That Wasn't Mine is a psychological and metaphysical story about empathy, grief, emotional boundaries, trauma, and the Buddhist-inspired wisdom of non-attachment. It asks a powerful question: how can you love someone else's suffering without making it your own?

• Themen: Belletristik Biografischer Roman / Autobiografischer Roman
• ISBN: 9798182751780
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: James Montgomery Spring Hill