Too Strong For Your Own Good

#1 Amazon Bestseller in Health Psychology The hidden emotional cost of always being the strong one - and how to reclaim your body, soul and sense of self. After six cancer diagnoses, Anette DeMattio learned something we‘re rarely taught: our bodies aren‘t betraying us - they‘re communicating. The same strength that helped you survive can quietly become the thing that disconnects you from yourself. If you‘re the one who holds everything together - at work, at home, in your relationships - you already know what this feels like. You step up. You push through. You carry more than you should. And for a while... it works. Until it doesn‘t. Too Strong For Your Own Good explores what happens when survival mode quietly becomes your identity. Because it worked. And eventually, survival starts feeling like who you are. This book names those patterns - five of them, actually: The First Responder. The Empty Cup. The Cart Puller. The Stoic Swan. The Island. By the time et them, you‘ll already recognize yourself in one - or all - of them. And you‘ll begin learning how to shift those patterns without losing your drive, your ambition or the parts of you that care deeply. By coming home to yourself again. International Impact Book Award - Gold Winner Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite Literary Titan Gold Book Award