Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move Through Hard Things--And Experience True Flourishing -- Aundi Kolber, Paperback Religion - Theology and impermanence

and impermanence

Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect

But upon their arrival

and tenderness

She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school

Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move Through Hard Things--And Experience True Flourishing -- Aundi Kolber, Paperback Religion - Theology and impermanenceThere'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 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