Pepper Faye & The Hearth of Belonging

By: Pepper Carlson-Humphrey

A gentle fable for the beautifully different, the quietly wild, and anyone who’s ever wondered where they truly fit.

In the Forest Between, Pepper Faye discovers a clearing unlike any other—
a hearth built not of stone, but of softness, memory, and intention.
Here, the misfits gather. The tender ones. The truth-speakers and quiet makers.
There are no rules. No roles to perform.
Only warmth, welcome, and a deep knowing that difference is not something to hide—
it’s something to gather around.

In this luminous tale of chosen family and quiet revolution,
Pepper learns that true belonging doesn’t require shrinking or shapeshifting—
it asks only that we show up as we are, and trust that we’ll be held.

For the artist who never felt understood,
the neurodivergent heart who’s always felt a little out of sync,
the soul who longs for a table where nothing needs to be explained—
this story is a map home.

You don’t have to change to be cherished.
You only have to arrive.