The Ocean Inside Me: A Spiritual Memoir on Healing Racial Trauma, (Paperback)

Gold Winner of the 2024 Nautilus Book Award in Memoir and Personal Journey

"An insightful, mystic exploration of spiritual and racial healing." - KIRKUS REVIEWS (Recommended review)

Indies Today calls it "a compassionate way of seeing the world."

Winner of the Firebird Awards - Spirituality

Indies Today Finalist in Spirituality

Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in: BIPOC, Spirituality, Mind/Body/Spirit

Ever wonder what it's like to heal trauma through meditation surrounded by white supremacists and neo-Nazis?

The Ocean Inside Me is a spiritual memoir about healing racial trauma as a person of color incarcerated in an almost all-white prison. Amidst harsh conditions and blatant racism, R.G. Shore learned to meditate by going into his body, befriending his shadow, and learning to sit with the traumas held by his younger self.

In The Ocean Inside Me, R.G. Shore learned to love and accept the cause of his deepest pain, his brown body. His prison radio became the conduit by which he transcended the limitations of prison. The static white noise helped transform a world of concrete and injustice into a world where he could connect to nature and find healing through the element of water. His embodied spiritual journey eventually led him to studying law where he advocated for the very men who oppressed him.

A Master in meditation, R.G. Shore found a way to liberate his inner child in the most unlikely place and is now offering a path for you to find healing as well. This spiritual memoir also offers practical guided steps for you to begin your healing journey. R.G. Shore is the founder of a nonprofit called Northwest Wisdom, where he teaches people the tools and techniques to go deeper and heal the spiritual wounds within.