WHEN STRENGTH NO LONGER NEEDS STRUGGLE
How to Hear Yourself Again After Years of Pushing Through
Jennifer Griffin
I did not write this book because I found the perfect way to live. I wrote it because I became curious about the way I had been living.
For much of my life, strength meant knowing how to handle what was in front of me. That ability served me. It helped me work, protect, love, figure things out and keep going.
Eventually, I began wondering what else was possible.
What happened if I stopped measuring myself by what I could carry?
What could I hear when I was not constantly moving?
Who was I when I was not responding to what everyone and everything around me needed?
Those questions changed the way I understood strength and eventually the way I understood myself.
This is a book about the strength that carries us, what happens when override becomes the default and the quieter process of learning to hear ourselves again.
It is not a rejection of the self who endured. It is an exploration of what becomes possible when struggle no longer has to be the place we go to remember our strength.
Inside the book
- The strength that got you here
- The gift and cost of being the one who handles things
- When override stops working
- When strength changes form
- You are not optional
- Returning to your own knowing
- Belonging without leaving yourself
- When insight becomes part of you
- What you mistook for ordinary
- When wanting returns
- Guided by bliss
There is another way to move through a life. One that leaves room for uncertainty without immediately filling it with fear. One that lets a good moment be good. One that notices the pull toward something before demanding a plan. One that lets life reach you.
Survival asks, How do I get through this?
Bliss asks, What draws me forward?
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