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slash Made for This 12 and use code made for this 12 for 12 free meals including free shipping. I want to tell you a story about this book. I wrote a whole different book, and it was called

numb and I couldn't finish it. It was the last part and I was completely stumped and stuck and I didn't know what to do.

And it was due in about four weeks and so I reached out to a friend who had helped me before bring clarity to my words and as we worked together for a day to try to close this book and figure out why it was so hard to end. He looked at me and said,

Jenny, I think you're writing the wrong book. I think the real book here is measuring up and nothing to prove.

NOM is just a symptom of what you are going through.

The real root of what you've been feeling and what you've been experiencing

and what so many other people are

experiencing is this idea that we are exhausted from trying to measure up and it's you

know do in four weeks I was like thanks a lot this isn't helpful at all and he said hey I want you to think

about this but maybe you need to rewrite this book and it was you know we were

together for a day and it was about I don't know 11 o'clock in the morning and when we realized this and I I went on a walk

around my office and I prayed and I called Zach and I said hey if I do this if I rewrite this book I'm going to be gone for the next three weeks solid like

I'm going to have to get this right and he said I support you and I want this book to be

right and you need to do it. And so sure enough I

I mean I went away basically for three weeks and some amazing things came out of that time.

One of those is the book.

Another thing is called Our Village,

and it's a Facebook group that helped me during that time

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