Laugh to Keep from Crying is for the person who learned how to smile through disappointment, joke through discomfort, and call it strength. It's for the one who kept making space for broken promises, kept translating their needs into softer words, and kept laughing-because crying felt like it would take too long. This is not a love story. It's a clarity story. Through poetic reflections and spoken-word style pieces, Courtney Murray explores what it means to survive emotional inconsistency with humor as armor-until the armor becomes too heavy to carry. Inside these pages you'll find: - laughter that isn't joy, but survival - the moment you stop negotiating with confusion - boundaries that don't argue-they leave - the quiet power of reclaiming your energy - a softer kind of freedom: the kind that doesn't need to be proven Laugh to Keep from Crying is the second book in the Broken Gem Series-a collection for anyone turning fragments into truth, and truth into peace. Because one day, it becomes funny for real. Not because it didn't hurt- but because you made it out.