Cairn: an unexpected mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, on a mountain, hilltop, along a trail, or in a forest. Have you ever felt lost, or as if you were drifting away, but then magically, a north star appeared? Some mystical, out-of-the-ordinary reminder that affirmed that you were actually on the right path?

Join author Daniel Hayes along his trail of discovery as he shares vulnerable insights into how life cairns, curated by courage and curiosity, repeatedly invited him into physical, mental, and spiritual unknowns; and how by showing up for himself, and recognizing such signposts, he transformed his life beyond doubt, numbness, and loneliness, into a life navigated by confidence, connection, and surprising internal freedom.

Although readers become acquainted with Daniel's individual sojourn, over the course of each page of this inspirational book, relatable themes of grief, struggle, hope, connection, addiction, and discovery reveal common-threads of human evolutionary growth. Through unfamiliar doorways of meditation, deep writing, poetry, yoga Nidra, and combat sports, invitations to push, stretch, and test Daniel's will presented themselves. Eventually, although he might not have recognized them at the time, the main cairns connected him along his ultimate trail, through the trees, beyond the wilderness, and towards his truest path of the inevitable...