Unhappy Achiever: Rejecting the Good Girl Image and Reclaiming the Joy of Inner Fulfillment Audiobook by Ashley Jordan
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ID: 803202
Title: Unhappy Achiever: Rejecting the Good Girl Image and Reclaiming the Joy of Inner Fulfillment
Author: Ashley Jordan
Narrator: Ashley Jordan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:00:38
Language: English
Release date: 09-24-24
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Biography & Memoir
Summary:
Unhappy Achiever is a story of healing, of revolutionary awakeningof what happens when we summon our courage to step out from behind the mask of the good girl to wholeheartedly embrace our true selves and the joy of being perfectly imperfect.
Its no secret that women have been sold a bill of goods: were taught we canand shouldhave it all and that happiness is ours for the takingif. If we go to college and become a degreed professional. If we marry someone respectable and buy a house in a picturesque neighborhood. If we become the proud parents of two children. If we land our dream job, get promoted, or make partner. Women spend decades, even lifetimes, believing: If I can just door haveor becomethat one thing, Ill be satisfied, content, complete.
Many of us nearly do ourselves to death, sacrificing health and relationships to arrive at some elusive, ultimate point of existence. Still, no matter how much we do, genuine satisfaction evades us. And the parts of us we sought to fill with the trappings of wealth, power, goodness, and praise somehow feel emptier than before. All the while, missing the most fundamental key to our happinessthe joy of inner fulfillment.
For most of her life, journalist, public speaker, and former lawyer Ashley Jordan ingested the commodified myth, bought and sold on the open market of capitalist culture, that what was missing inside her could be fixed by something outside her. Then, shortly after her 37th birthday, life cracked her open. An unexpected trigger sent her spiraling into the darkness of traumatic grief she buried when she was 13 years old. These memories inspired a new perspective: love isnt earned by what we do, have, or become. That everything Ashley needed to be, she already was at 37, at 13, and since the moment her soul made its home in her body.
Deeply personal and openly forthright in the style of Erica L. Sanchezs Crying in the Bathroom and told with the tender and soulful storytelling of Shauna Niequist's Present Over Perfect, this is an intimate memoir of one unhappy achievers journey to discover the self underneath the accomplishments. Conjuring the courage to upend every aspect of her existencefrom her friendships to her career to her marriageto make her life more reflective of her hearts deepest desires, Ashley shares stories of healing from loss, her struggle with eating disorders, perfectionism, stories of love and friendship, and the complex relationship between mother and daughterand what we go on to teach our own daughters about self-worth.
Unhappy Achiever is the story of how we use masks of achievement to buffer against the world and protect us from pain, how these masks keep us disconnected from ourselves and distanced from those around usand ultimately, the magic, wisdom, and wholeness we encounter when we exist unencumbered and unobscured by external pursuits.
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