“Sometimes books find you exactly when you need them. Carry Your Heart is one of those books. It’s a true gift to absorb this collected wisdom, that has been treated with such care and respect. As someone who has been on their own healing journey, there is so much in Carry Your Heart that resonates deeply, as well as new ways of knowing that have expanded my understanding. Carry Your Heart is a much-needed companion on our collective healing journey out of colonialism.” 
 

– — JESSE WENTE, bestselling author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

“Carry Your Heart is a beautiful offering of wisdom allowing us to slow down and feel. If you’re someone struggling with your mental well-being, or connected to another’s struggle, this book is for you. It’s for everyone. Louis Busch, PhD, has provided the gift of a gentle guidebook filled with stories to help us find the way back to our hearts.”
 

– — CLARA HUGHES, OC, six-time Olympic Medalist and bestselling author of Open Heart, Open Mind

“Some books teach you. Others change you. Carry Your Heart does both. Louis Busch weaves together the wisdom of Indigenous worldviews with the evidence-based insights of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and the result is something rare: a book that feels both rigorously grounded and deeply alive. Writing not as a distant expert but as a fellow traveler, Busch brings warmth and hard-won insight to every page. Tender, wise, generous, and genuinely transformative, Carry Your Heart is the kind of book you press into the hands of people you love.”
 

– — KATE ROBSON, psychotherapist and bestselling author of Something to Hold Onto

“ ‘What can I do today to honour those who have travelled on?’ Answering this question through his extensive practice as a nihithaw psychotherapist, Louis Busch shows how personal pain, when steered by Elders’ insight, helps us face life’s challenges through curiosity, flexibility, and wide-open hearts.”

– — JOHN BORROWS, OC, FRSC, Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law,
Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law, University of Toronto,
and author of The Seven Cycles of Life

“A beautifully written book that skilfully blends ancient wisdom with modern science. Profound, poetic, and pragmatic. Step-bystep, with great compassion, Louis Busch will guide you through facing your fears, transcending your suffering, becoming the sort of person you truly want to be, and living your life to the fullest. Highly recommended!”

– — DR. RUSS HARRIS, bestselling author of The Happiness Trap

“In this empathic and inspiring book, Louis Busch shares his transformative vision for navigating personal crisis, grief, and loss through creative and insightful integration of his own Indigenous Cree values with the science of psychological flexibility. Specifically, Louis interrelates three traditional teachings—belonging through kinship, presence in the world, and purposeful action—with the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy to promote healing and pursue well-being. With great sensitivity and compassion, he encourages us all to learn to ‘move through our lives with emotional and spiritual openness, awareness and intention’—in short, to walk while carrying our hearts.”

– — PROFESSOR JOSEPH P. GONE (Aaniiih-Gros Ventre), PhD, professor of anthropology and of global health and social medicine, Harvard University