In this introspective collection of personal essays, award-winning poet and essayist Rachel Toalson provides an intimate and essential portrait of what it means to be human. With essays like On Family Trees that Look More Like Stumps,
On Childhood Depression,
On Loss and God and On Wishing for a Different Life, Rachel uncovers her heart, her soul, and her honest feelings and philosophies.

We Count it All Joy is a singular collection of essays that takes one woman’s personal experience and wraps it inside a collective experience so that readers connect, marvel, and feel the thread of humanity that joins us all. Exploring topics like anxiety and depression, marriage, loss, and modern femininity, Rachel guides her readers to the end of the world, so that they, too, have a chance to say, we count it all joy.