Brave Love: Making Space for You to Be You Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

Brave Love: Making Space for You to Be You Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Women today experience pressure to become the best wife, mother, and professional possible – often at the trouble of their own identity. But imagine if you could encounter deep serenity – knowing you are treasured right now, simply when you are? In Brave Love, the creator of the multi-million buck company Lisa Leonard Designs inspires females to find themselves again amidst the noise and competing needs of true to life.

Brave Love is about what this means to be human being, how it feels to become broken and scared, and about Brave Love: Building Space for You to Be You what happens whenever we dare to love deeply. Join Lisa on a journey where you’ll discover you are worthwhile and lovable simply when you are. You don’t have to try harder or end up being better. You don’t need to verify yourself and you don’t have to make others okay. In this independence you will see more serenity and more pleasure. Most importantly, you will learn that as you stop trying to be everything to everyone, you will like others better.

Lisa Leonard shares her story of finding truth and wholeness amid life’s competing demands. When she stated her relationship vows, she was determined to be the best wife she could possibly be. When her first son was born with a severe disability, Lisa promised herself she’d continually be the mother he needed. When she started her jewelry business, Lisa focused on giving it her all.

Over time, the exhaustion of wanting to be the perfect wife, mother, and businesswoman took its toll. Lisa understood it wasn’t working. She wanted to switch factors, but how? Everyone depended on her behalf. So she kept going, kept pressing, kept wanting to show she could do everything. Until one night, in tears and desperation, Lisa noticed that she could no longer be everything to everyone. Someplace on the way, she had lost herself.

In Brave Like, Lisa stocks her story of losing – and finding – her own voice in the clamor of family, profession, and internal pressure to prove herself.