In the Meantime

Name: In the Meantime
SKU: 11654
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$8.00

Description

When the world feels too heavy to carry and hope feels just out of reach, In the Meantime offers a hand to hold.

With the warmth of a trusted therapist and the wisdom of a seasoned dream keeper, Deedee Cummings invites you to name what hurts, reclaim your hope, and rise not only for yourself, but also for the world you help to create simply by being in it.

Through compassionate storytelling, gentle reflection prompts, and powerful tools like the Hoping Skill and the Hope Meter, Cummings walks readers through what it means to keep living, dreaming, and building in spite of the world around us.

This book is a patient reminder that even when the light feels dim, you are the continuation. Stay hopeful and buoyed. Everything is a pendulum, and history shows that everything will swing back again.
What will you do to keep from losing yourself—and your mind—in the meantime?

Author Deedee Cummings

Deedee Cummings is a professional dreamer. She is also an author, therapist, attorney, and mom from Louisville, Kentucky. Cummings founded Make A Way Media in 2014 after struggling to find books with characters who looked like her own children and an extreme lack of stories that reflected their life experiences. Books published by Make A Way focus on hope, diversity, social justice, and therapeutic skills for children and adults. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, Essence Magazine, Psych Central, well+Good, and The EveryGirl, among other media outlets. In 2021, she was appointed to the Kentucky Early Childhood Advisory Council by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, and reappointed to a second term in 2025, acknowledging her decades-long service to the children and families of Kentucky. Cummings is also the founder of The Louisville Book Festival. She was inspired to work to highlight and celebrate a culture of reading in her community after working as an in-home therapist and visiting homes of children who had no books. Cummings believes literacy is a fundamental human right. Her work highlights inspiring messages that remind us all it is never too late to begin again.

Reviews:

If you need hope in this bleak world, pick up this book!

To say this book is needed right now (in the times that we live in) is an understatement.

It’s a quick read and a necessary one if you’re struggling in our current world.

This book brought me peace that I needed so badly. Being a ripple in the coming wave is important and I needed to remember that.

There were so many great quotes in this book that if I put them all in, I would basically be quoting the entire book so instead of doing that I’m just gonna tell you to pick it up because it does make a difference. It is healing. It does make you feel valued and hopeful for the future that will hopefully be better than the current times we are right now in.

All my love to this author who is also a therapist and wrote this amazing book to help others!

C.D.

My heart needed this

I had no idea how desperately I needed this book. The message is so timely and my heart has been so heavy. Thank you to the author for this beautiful gift to the world. I am highlighting and writing in the margins and taking notes and sharing these pearls of wisdom with everyone I know.

Randi Carter

A balm for your soul

This book is like a healing balm for tired and weary hearts. I think I took a screenshot of every page because there was something I wanted to write down or remember for later. It is soooo good. I definitely needed this book in this season.

Vanessa Ruiz

7 transformational tips to help you get unstuck and start living the life you want: https://www.makeawaymedia.com/make-a-way-mindset/

Virtual mindset classes: https://www.makeawaymindset.com/class-schedule/

The How to Dream Podcast: https://www.makeawaymindset.com/podcast/