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What happens when life begins to trip us up and failure starts
creeping in? Many of us just keep on doing the same thing, hoping
for different results. Some of us look for escape, to find a way
out of the mess we feel that we've created. But neither enduring
nor escaping is ultimately what we need. The answer is to allow
ourselves to begin again, every day, in every part of our lives.
Through engaging, lyrical prose, Leeana Tankersley shows women how
to forgive themselves, develop new and healthier patterns of
living, and do away with resentment and regret. Her life-giving
words will free women who are feeling stuck and allow them to clear
out the debris to make room for what God wants to do in their
lives. To begin again is to open the window, even a crack, to let
the breeze of grace come in. It is a call to stop running from our
fears. To take one small step toward becoming the brave women we
were made to be.
When we are in the darkness--whatever that is in our own particular
story--the temptation is to believe that it's over, it's always
going to feel this way, we will never be anywhere else or feel
anything other than we do now. We fear the darkness, and for good
reason. But it is in the darkness that new life begins. With an
openhanded spirit and openhearted vulnerability, Leeana Tankersley
reveals the darkest chapter of her own story, the thing she never
thought would happen and could do nothing to prevent. Along the way
she shares how waiting patiently in the darkness allowed something
incredible to take root within her: a defiant and hard-won hope
that is not dependent on happy endings. If you have lost your
faith, your family, your health, your home, your security, your
business, or your very self, Leeana wants you to know that you are
not alone or forgotten. You are not doomed to stagnation or stasis.
You are not worth less than you once were. Against every last odd,
you can hope anyway.
Leeana Tankersley, like so many of us, began to feel overwhelmed by
life. And like so many of us, she assumed she was struggling not
because life is inherently difficult but because she was personally
failing in some way. She knows firsthand what it is to bully
yourself, to put yourself down for not being able to keep it all
together, to compare yourself to others and find yourself lacking.
But she's also discovered that all of the hurt and hostility and
pain only add up to a life of holding your breath. What if we could
exhale and let go?
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Breathing Room "is her beautiful release of self-condemnation, her
discovery of the rest that comes when we give ourselves some space
to breathe. She draws readers in through shared experiences of
perfectionism, jealousy, and striving and shows them how to let go,
how to be radically on their own team, and how to experience the
broad grace that Christ has offered all of us.
Anyone who has been trying to do it all, who has been putting on a
strong front and yet secretly struggling, will find in "Breathing
Room" both a trusted friend and a generous Savior.
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