You’ve been waiting all year for this book, and I’ve been writing it in pieces—between long silences, in the dark, when the words finally agreed to show up.
It’s held parts of me I wasn’t ready to share until now. And today, it gets a face.
A cover.
A shape for the ache inside. Ready to see what it looks like on the outside?
“A quiet exploration of emotional bruises—the tender moments we pretend don’t sting, but carry anyway. Through essays and reflections, Ivy Writerly examines the ache that lives in kindness, memory, vulnerability, and the things we never quite say out loud. This book isn’t loud or dramatic—it just knows where the nerves are.”
Soft Things That Hurt is a collection of quiet impacts—the moments that didn’t break us, but bruised us just enough to remember. These are the almosts, the not-quite-goodbyes, the kind gestures that carried too much weight. Written in prose and fragments, the book explores the strange ache of tenderness, how softness can sting, and how we often carry our deepest pain inside the things that once comforted us.
This is not a book about healing. It’s a book about feeling—the raw, delicate kind that sneaks in under your skin. If you’ve ever smiled through something that hurt, kept something close that should have been let go, or mistaken gentleness for safety, you’ll see yourself in these pages.
Pre-order Soft Things That Hurt if you crave writing that doesn’t flinch. If you want to feel seen in the quietest parts of your grief. If you’re ready to hold your ache without rushing to mend it.
“A quiet exploration of emotional bruises—the tender moments we pretend don’t sting, but carry anyway. Through essays and reflections, Ivy Writerly examines the ache that lives in kindness, memory, vulnerability, and the things we never quite say out loud. This book isn’t loud or dramatic—it just knows where the nerves are.”