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    Courage to Rise
    Courage to Rise
    Courage to Rise
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    Courage to Rise

    By Emma Grace

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    The author of Live in the Details and host of the Life Letters podcast shares wisdom for young women searching for their worth.
     
    Emma Grace has inspired legions of fans through her @liveinthedetails Instagram account and her popular Life Letters podcast. Now she shares her personal tone and timeless wisdom with the rising souls of young women everywhere. Through personal passages, poetry, and photographs, this volume offers the perspective and understanding every young woman needs.
     
    Loss is a journey no one is prepared to take, but all eventually must. Courage to Rise walks beside readers during those first few pivotal miles. Past the heartbreak. Past the confusion. Past the questions and the self-doubt and the pain. And towards a place of hope, self-discovery, and most importantly, love. Courage to Rise is, quite simply, the book that has found a way to whisper all the things readers never knew they always needed to hear.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781642790047
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      Courage to Rise - Emma Grace

      Advance Praise

      "This talented first-time author has captured the journey of healing and self-discovery in a way that hasn’t been done before. Courage to Rise reaches out of the pages, grabs you by the heart and soul, and makes you believe—and by that last page, you feel like someone really does understand."

      —Kimberly Kirberger, New York Times Bestselling Author of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

      THE LIFE LETTERS

      Courage to Rise

      Emma Grace

      NEW YORK

      LONDON • NASHVILLE • MELBOURNE • VANCOUVER

      THE LIFE LETTERS

      Book 1. Courage to Rise

      © 2019 Emma Grace

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in New York, New York, by Morgan James Publishing. Morgan James is a trademark of Morgan James, LLC. www.MorganJamesPublishing.com

      The Morgan James Speakers Group can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event visit The Morgan James Speakers Group at www.TheMorganJamesSpeakersGroup.com.

      All photos courtesy of Unsplash.com and Pixabay.com, released under Creative Commons CC0.

      ISBN 9781642790030 paperback

      ISBN 9781642790047 eBook

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018936433

      Cover Design by:

      Rachel Lopez

      www.r2cdesign.com

      Interior Design by:

      Christopher Kirk

      www.GFSstudio.com

      In an effort to support local communities, raise awareness and funds, Morgan James Publishing donates a percentage of all book sales for the life of each book to Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg.

      Get involved today! Visit

      www.MorganJamesBuilds.com

      for the one beautiful heart who has never stopped believing in mine. my mother.

      Note From The Author

      This book is for the believers and the dreamers. The ones who still have their starry eyes and hopeful souls. Who chase after big dreams and have big hearts and still believe in big love. This book is for the ones who fight for what they want. And keep their hearts whole no matter how many times they get broken. For the brave hearts. The ones who willingly, trustingly, and without fear, still place a beating heart in someone else’s hands. To hold. To nurture. To love. This is for you.

      For the strong women we know and raise and love—and mostly, are. May you know a lifetime of happiness. And during your journey, may your greatest love story be the one you discover within your own heart. Yours.

      with love

      Maybe you’re sitting there, wondering how you got to this place. Maybe you’re going over and over the things you wish you hadn’t done—and all the things you have. Maybe you’re picking apart that last conversation. Wondering what you could have said or done differently to change how things turned out. Maybe you go over and over that last day. That last moment. Wishing you could change something—anything. Wishing you could take it back. Or get them back. Darling, hear these words like they are being written just for you: you are going to be ok. And all that stuff you’re analyzing? You can’t change that. No matter how sad it makes you. No matter how much you regret it. No matter how much you wish you could go back and do it again. So you need to do something for you. As hard as it’s going to be. And as impossible as it’s going to feel. You need to take that first step. Now. And you need to let that go. Let it go. It’s ok if it doesn’t make sense yet. It’s ok if you have some loose ends. It’s ok if you have to forgive someone that isn’t even sorry. And darling? It’s ok to forgive yourself, too. You did the best you could at the time. Stop beating yourself up. You are not broken. Things are not hopeless. This life is going to be a good one. I so totally promise you that. And this part? This is not all there is. Oh no, darling. And there are more amazing things coming than you’ll ever know. So take that with you. Tuck it away. Rest easy with it as you fall asleep. This is not your end, sweet soul. This part? This hard part? This is your beginning.

      draft
      after
      draft
      she had sketched
      her life.
      some parts
      in pencil,
      others
      in permanent ink.
      it was the
      job of a lifetime.
      this single
      canvas.
      this one
      masterpiece.

      One day you’ll get it, sweet girl. You will. You’ll understand that it’s not always your fault. And you will learn to stop telling yourself that. When people don’t treat you well. Or love you. Or believe in you. You will learn that those things are not about you. So many of us are carrying around that burden—that belief that what happens to us is all personal. We start believing that we are a reflection of the people who don’t—can’t—love us. And we’re not. So please, please, please hear this, sweet girl. Hear it. And then make it part of you. You are beautiful. You are exactly, precisely, and perfectly created to be the person you are. Complete with the dreams dancing around in your soul. And the passion propelling your heart forward. But you are also put on this earth and made to bump into thousands of hearts along the way. Some that will walk with you. Others that will push you. Some that will break you. And others that will heal you. But each and every one is part of your journey, and they make you who you were meant to be. See them for what they are, darling—without using them as your mirror. It’s not your fault when a relationship breaks. Or love fails. Or people walk away. Whether you knew someone for two days or two decades—it always, always, takes two willing hearts. And so you can have the best, most wonderful, giving soul in all the world—and that won’t be enough if someone doesn’t meet you halfway. And that’s the lesson, sweet girl. It’s not your fault. Protect your heart. Make it believe this truth. Someone is out there looking everywhere for you. Dreaming of you. And one day, they are going to measure their entire life by the day your eyes met theirs. So until then, be confident. Be strong. And keep that heart full of more hope than fear.

      darling,

      please

      please

      please

      stop thinking

      this is

       all your fault.

      Never again would she want something that looked good to the world but wasn’t right in her own heart. It took her a few hard-earned scars to get to this place. But she did. And now it was totally, absolutely, amazingly clear. Despite what they told her, it was never about what the world wanted for her. It wasn’t even what the people who loved her—whom she loved—wanted for her. It was about what she wanted for herself. And it was as simple as that. She had been with the hearts who looked good in the photos—the smiling, happy, sandy beachy ones. She’d worn the clothes and worked the jobs and surrounded herself with the experiences that the world pushed on her. Told her were important. That were part of the good life. But her heart was still unsettled. It was trying to love the picture of life she was painting for it—but it couldn’t. And she knew it. In the depths of her heart and soul, it whispered. Find your life, sweet girl. Find your heart. And that’s how she knew. Happiness—her happiness—was never going to be found in the voices of the world. The ones that shouted at her. Compared her. Told her who and how and what she needed to be. She’d never be able to catch up to all the world’s spinning and tilting and shifting—and the chase would just end up leaving her empty. And I guess that’s when she got it. The single most important lesson she has ever learned. What the world thought? That was none of her damn business. And from this point on, she was going to chase the things that made her whole. And fulfilled her. The things that were real. She wanted what made her eyes sparkle and her heart melt. She wanted to give—love, and time, and understanding. And she wanted to be loved. And understood. So she was going to spend her life chasing those things. From this point forward, everything would be different. Everything.

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