From Sh!tshow to Afterglow
Putting Life Back Together When It All Falls Apart
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Rebound after loss, grief, and the other cruel crises life throws your way with this irreverent guide -- the perfect anti-self-help book.
Sometimes your foundation crumbles. Sometimes you realize there wasn't a foundation to begin with. Maybe your relationship ended in a breakup or divorce, or you lost your job, or a loved one died. Whatever crisis showed up to screw with you, it brought everything else crashing down, and suddenly life became confusing, disorienting, out of control. A total shit show. You. Need. Help.
Therein lies the problem: Traditional self-help guides just aren't for you. You're an individualist, an iconoclast, a follow-your-own-drumbeat kind of person. The typical sunshine-and-rainbows, "live your best life!" books in the "personal growth" aisle aren't going to speak to your worldview -- you need an embrace-your-weirdness vision for growth and rebuilding.
Enter Ariel Meadow Stallings, who has experienced a few life catastrophes of her own and emerged from them with newfound clarity and strength. In From Sh!tshow to Afterglow, she offers a lifeline of support and outside-the-box thinking for times of crisis and confusion, sharing plenty of tactical tips for getting your shit together. Along the way, she never lets readers forget that sometimes a life has to be taken apart before it can be put back together better than ever.
Without sugar-coating how deeply it sucks to have your world shattered, From Sh!tshow to Afterglow gives readers a reassuring plan to for putting the pieces back together and emerging stronger than ever.
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In this delightfully unorthodox self-help guide, Stallings (Offbeat Brides), founder of digital publisher Offbeat Empire, explains how to put one's life back together after a life-changing event. She speaks from experience: shortly after her left ovary burst, her husband announced he wanted a divorce. Stallings defines a "shitshow" as a life crisis with a few key ingredients: uncontrollable change in several foundational life structures such as career, relationship, or health; an identity shift so intense one is left feeling like they don't know themselves; and confusion and physical symptoms including difficulty sleeping and/or eating. After leading readers through her empowering "this fucking sucks" meditation, Stallings provides a road map out of the chaos. She instructs readers to "wallow forward" before finding one's "afterglow" the lessons learned. While some of Stallings's suggestions are rather niche (chances are most readers won't ask a Tinder date to spank them), her empathy will buoy readers going through tough times and give them hope for the future. Anyone in a tailspin could benefit from Stalling's snappy, no-nonsense lessons.