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Too Strong For Your Own Good: Success With Soul (Too ... for Your Own Good(tm)) - Softcover

DeMattio MA, Anette

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Synopsis

#1 Amazon Bestseller in Health Psychology

What if the very strength that helped you survive... is now keeping you from fully living?

You've always been the strong one.

The dependable one. The one everyone counts on. You hold everything together—at work, at home and in your relationships.

You push through exhaustion. You rarely ask for help. You take care of everyone else.

And somewhere along the way, you may have lost touch with yourself.

You don't need to become stronger. You need a different relationship with strength.

You may be Too Strong if...

• You say yes when you desperately want to say no
• You feel responsible for everyone else's happiness
• You push through what your body is telling you
• Rest makes you feel guilty
• You struggle to receive help
• You're successful on the outside but quietly exhausted underneath

These aren't character flaws. They may be survival patterns that once helped you cope, adapt and keep going but are now quietly costing you your peace, health, relationships and connection to yourself.

Discover Your Too Strong Survival Patterns

The First Responder — Always managing everyone else's emergencies.
The Empty Cup — Giving until there's nothing left.
The Cart Puller — Carrying more than was ever yours to carry.
The Stoic Swan — Calm on the surface. Exhausted underneath.
The Island — Believing you have to do it all alone.

Most of us recognize ourselves in more than one.

Through deeply personal stories, body wisdom, practical tools and the Too Strong Method, DeMattio shows you how to recognize the patterns that once protected you, reconnect with yourself and evolve the strength that helped you survive into a healthier way of living- without giving up your ambition, purpose or success. Because your strength was never meant to be spent simply surviving your life.

When you stop using all your strength to hold everything together, you free that strength for what you're actually here to do: To live. To love. To lead. To create. To contribute.

When we change the way we carry our lives, we change what we're able to bring to the world.

If you've spent years being the caregiver, the fixer, the person everyone depends on...

This book was written for you.

Welcome home.

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About the Author

If you've spent your life being the strong one - the dependable one, the capable one, the one everyone turns to while quietly carrying more than anyone realizes - you may have discovered that strength has a hidden cost.

For years, Anette DeMattio, MA  believed that being strong meant pushing through, holding everything together and never letting anyone down. As a six-time cancer survivor and after more than two decades of coaching caregivers, professionas and leaders, she began to see the same pattern that the people everyone admired for their strength were often the ones silently abandoning themselves.

That realization became The Too Strong Method and the foundation of The Too Strong Movement - helping people recognize when the strength that once helped them survive is now keeping them from fully living.

Anette blends psychology, lived experience, emotional healing and body wisdom to help people stop abandoning themselves in order to survive and finally come home to themselves.

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