Strong like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things–and Experience True Flourishing

There’s a cost to being a certain kind of strong.
When it comes to difficult circumstances, we’ve all heard the platitudes: “No pain, no gain.” “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” But if we spend our lives trying to be “the strong one,” we become exhausted, burned-out, and disconnected from our truest God-given selves.
What if it were different? Could there be a different way to be strong? Could strength mean more than pushing on and pushing through pain, bearing every heavy burden on our own? What if, instead, true strength were more like the tide: soft and bold, fierce and gentle, moving together as one powerful force?
In Strong like Water, author and trauma therapist Aundi Kolber offers a framework for true flourishing. With each page, you’ll:
 
Learn how your nervous system shapes your experience so that we can move through pain instead of being stuck in it.Explore various practices, rhythms, and resources to support you in challenging circumstances with compassion and hope.Discover how to internalize connection, love, and safety―empowering you with greater resilience.
A different, more expansive way of healing, wholeness, and possibly―especially―strength is possible. We were made to be strong like water.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tyndale Refresh
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1496454715
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1496454713
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #44,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #111 in Healing #676 in Success Self-Help #1,123 in Christian Spiritual Growth (Books)
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