Five Fingers. Five Seasons. One Hand

Revealing the cover of The Five Seasons Method and the designer who brought it to life

Mar 17, 2026

The shift from yin to yang, from the stillness of winter to spring’s emergence, it feels like the perfect moment for this image to be seen.

Over the last year and a half, I have been writing this book. Many nights at my desk after teaching and seeing clients all day with my dog by my feet and cat on my lap, keeping me company…. often times late into the evening and many early mornings I would wake myself up before sun rise and the start of my appointments, slowly putting my life and my experience into words.

Little by little, it all found its way onto the page.

It was an intensely personal process. The words came from inside me, from my knowledge, my stories, my practice, my life.

And then Jaya Miceli read them.

Jaya is the Senior Art Director at Scribner. She is the designer behind covers you might already know for writers like Celeste Ng, Don DeLillo, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Annie Proulx. When she read the manuscript and began working on the cover, I had no idea what she might create. She took my words, digested them, and interpreted them into an image.

It stopped me. I was in awe.

When I look at this image, I see my entire life’s work in one hand. Five fingers. Five seasons. Each one holding its own color, its own nature, its own energy — just as each season holds its own emotional world inside us. Jaya saw all of that in my words and gave it a shape I never could have imagined myself.