Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Try Softer comes a new approach to healing, wholeness, and possibly—especially—strength. When it comes to hard circumstances, we’ve all heard the platitudes: “No pain, no gain.” “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” These statements may be well-intentioned, but they have a cost: When we spend our lives trying to be “the strong one,” we become exhausted, burned-out, and disconnected from our truest selves. What if it were different? Could being “the strong one” be more than pretending and denying ourselves at every turn? What if true strength were more like the tide: soft and bold, fierce and gentle dancing as one? In Strong like Water, author and trauma-informed therapist Aundi Kolber offers a framework for true flourishing. By embodying a more expansive view of strength, we can move through pain instead of being limited by it. Through various principles, practices, and rhythms, Strong like Water shows us how to become truly strong—and begin living into who God created us to be.