Night Bloomers

Loss, pain, and adversity are an inevitable part of the human experience, but these challenging circumstances can offer us opportunities for growth not otherwise possible. Just as some flowers only bloom in the dark, so too, some people require the darkness to bloom and become their best selves. Michelle Pearce, PhD, offers a step-by-step guide for transforming loss and adversity into positive growth and hope. Each chapter explains one of twelve principles of blooming in the dark, followed by insightful writing prompts designed to help you experience each principle in your own life.

With a compassionate voice, Dr. Pearce shares her clinical expertise, her own journey through the dark, and inspiring stories of other Night Bloomers to help you learn how to heal and transform your life not in spite of your difficult times, but because of them.

Michelle Pearce is a Professor and Clinical Psychologist in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is also an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. In private practice, she specializes in behavioral medicine and spirituality and health. Dr. Pearce has developed numerous wellness workshops and groups, including Writing for Wellness, and she is the author of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Christians with Depression. She lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.