The willingness to share vulnerable and transformative truths

This #thankyouthursday, I am grateful for the willingness to share vulnerable and transformative truths.

We’re less than two weeks out from the release of 49 Days to Real Love, and I’m making peace with the fact that I can’t control who reads it.

That might sound funny—wouldn’t I want EVERYONE to read my book? Isn’t that why I wrote it?

But, no. 49 Days to Real Love is not for everyone. There are some people I would like to block from even knowing it exists.

However, the reality is that if I want this book to get to the people who can benefit from it, I have to make it publicly available. I can’t pick and choose who buys it, who reads it, who likes it, who reviews it.

49 Days to Real Love is the rawest thing I have ever offered the world. I always intended to edit it more, to frame it into something more narrative. But I was led in a different direction, and instead, I am publishing what amounts to a transcript of real-time romantic loss and recovery.

So yeah, I’m a little apprehensive. But the truths I’m sharing are important. I am 100% sure it is possible to navigate heartbreak and uncertainty with kindness and resilience and grace, because I did it. I literally lived to tell the tale.

The truths I uncover about myself in this book don’t belong only to me. They are vulnerable and transformative—and they are also universal. That’s why I am willing to share them. And I am grateful for the willingness.

Love > fear,
Christina

p.s. I’m also grateful for egg nog—aka the BEST coffee creamer. Just saying!