How do we keep going when the world goes dark?
In Phosphorescence, acclaimed author and journalist Julia Baird offers a luminous meditation on resilience, wonder, and the quiet light that sustains us through life’s hardest moments. After enduring heartbreak and a brutal battle with cancer, Baird began to seek the sources of her inner glow—not the kind that blazes, but the soft, enduring light we store deep within ourselves.
Through personal memoir, scientific insight, and soulful encounters with jellyfish scientists, forest therapists, and quiet faith leaders, Baird reveals how awe, friendship, nature, and deliberate stillness can help us survive—and even flourish—in darkness.
Praised as “timeless and timely,” Phosphorescence is a gentle, gorgeous guide to finding your glow when you need it most.
