Pause: What I Found When I Decided to Stop
Language: English
Published by StillWater Publishing (edition ), 2025
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- Title
- Pause: What I Found When I Decided to Stop
- Author
- Giffney, Karin
- Publisher
- StillWater Publishing (edition )
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798993609584
Pause isn't weakness. It's wisdom. In a world that rewards speed, productivity, and constant motion, stepping back may even feel radical. But what if the space you are avoiding holds the insight you've been searching for?
In this beautifully written memoir, Karin Giffney explores what happens when a high-achieving marketing executive, devoted wife, mother, friend, and mentor, finally stops long enough to listen to her own life. Pause, What I Found When I Decided to Stop is a powerful reflection on the moments, memories, and meaning we miss when we move too fast for too long.
With a storyteller's heart and a voice of authenticity, Giffney weaves together scenes from her childhood, the corporate boardroom, global mission experiences, the Northwoods of Wisconsin, and the quiet inner landscape she once avoided. Her stories reveal the subtle yet profound ways that busyness can mask pain, postpone healing, and prevent us from truly seeing ourselves and those we love.
This book is for anyone who has ever felt:
Pause is not an interruption. It is an opening.
An opening to examine what shaped us.
An opening to reclaim what we lost along the way.
An opening to redefine success, leadership, faith, and joy.
Readers will find themselves reflected in her pages — comforted by her complete honesty, lifted by her humor, strengthened by her resilience, and inspired by her willingness to slow down and trust the unfolding.
Whether you're navigating a transition, craving clarity, rebuilding after a loss, or simply yearning for meaning in the everyday, Pause is a refreshing companion that will remind you that stillness can be the most generative place of all.
And for business leaders, seekers, and anyone tired of running on empty, Pause offers a deeply human reminder:
When we stop chasing life, life finally finds us.
In this beautifully written memoir, Karin Giffney explores what happens when a high-achieving marketing executive, devoted wife, mother, friend, and mentor, finally stops long enough to listen to her own life. Pause, What I Found When I Decided to Stop is a powerful reflection on the moments, memories, and meaning we miss when we move too fast for too long.
With a storyteller's heart and a voice of authenticity, Giffney weaves together scenes from her childhood, the corporate boardroom, global mission experiences, the Northwoods of Wisconsin, and the quiet inner landscape she once avoided. Her stories reveal the subtle yet profound ways that busyness can mask pain, postpone healing, and prevent us from truly seeing ourselves and those we love.
This book is for anyone who has ever felt:
- Overextended yet undernourished
- Driven by expectation rather than intention
- Longing for peace, presence, and purpose
- Feeling a need to meet the perfection bar
Pause is not an interruption. It is an opening.
An opening to examine what shaped us.
An opening to reclaim what we lost along the way.
An opening to redefine success, leadership, faith, and joy.
Readers will find themselves reflected in her pages — comforted by her complete honesty, lifted by her humor, strengthened by her resilience, and inspired by her willingness to slow down and trust the unfolding.
Whether you're navigating a transition, craving clarity, rebuilding after a loss, or simply yearning for meaning in the everyday, Pause is a refreshing companion that will remind you that stillness can be the most generative place of all.
And for business leaders, seekers, and anyone tired of running on empty, Pause offers a deeply human reminder:
When we stop chasing life, life finally finds us.
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