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Strong Like Water
- Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move Through Hard Things - and Experience True Flourishing
- Narrated by: Aundi Kolber
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's summary
There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong.
When it comes to difficult circumstances, we’ve all heard the platitudes: “No pain, no gain.” “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” But if we spend our lives trying to be “the strong one,” we become exhausted, burned-out, and disconnected from our truest selves.
What if it were different? Could there be a different way to be strong? Could strength mean more than pushing on and pushing through pain, bearing every heavy burden on our own? What if, instead, true strength were more like the tide: soft and bold, fierce and gentle, moving together as one powerful force?
In Strong like Water, author and trauma therapist Aundi Kolber offers a framework for true flourishing. With each page, you’ll:
- Learn how your nervous system shapes your experience so that we can move through pain instead of being stuck in it.
- Explore various practices, rhythms, and resources to support you in challenging circumstances with compassion and hope.
- Discover how to internalize connection, love, and safety―empowering you with greater resilience.
A different, more expansive way of healing, wholeness, and possibly―especially―strength is possible. We were made to be strong like water.
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- E. Loyd
- 06-07-24
Neuroscience catching up with the Bible
I love the way the author interweaves neuroscience into God’s truth through scripture and personal experiences. I love seeing science catching up to God. Thank you for writing this!
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- nancy cahalan stanley
- 11-07-23
Healing and helpful tools and insights! And Christ centered!
Thank you Aundi! We have been waiting for a book like this! I’m a Christ centered Marriage and Family Therapist and can’t tell you enough how encouraging and helpful your book has been to me and my clients! God bless YOU!
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- Daniel J Lamonte
- 11-04-23
Bring tissue…
I was crying within the first 10 minutes and not sure I stopped.
Such a deep, yet assessable, look at what it means to “work through” the trauma you and I have experience. Littered with helpful tips and resources while giving psychological insight and Scriptural support. I loved the author’s first work “Try Softer” but this might be better… it was definitely what I needed.
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- Zach
- 08-14-23
From a trauma therapist...
I love this book and cannot recommend it enough. It takes all of my clinical and theoretical leanings and blends them together beautifully with a sincere, lived-out faith. If you can't go to therapy, but need it, start here. I just finished Kolber's follow-up book, Strong Like Water, and think it is a phenomenal follow-up to this one, providing many uncomplicated practices to help calm your nervous system.
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- DM
- 10-09-23
excellent. authentic. practical
tells relevant stories. describes human emotion well. gentle with traumatic experience. gives paced routes for intervention and growth.
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- Brianne
- 11-09-23
Can’t wait to finish…..
I tried to listen, but I need to see the words with this book.
I’ll buy the digital copy and try again!
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- Knittingirl
- 08-19-23
Incredible
I loved this book- I felt so seen and helped through the pages. I will reread and keep using many of the practices as I work through parts of my story.
To anyone who wants to heal and step further into being their authentic selves- read/listen to this book!
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- Unhappy Customer
- 11-17-23
Very excited to share this book!
This book brings along with it the gift of clarity. Aundi’s work came highly recommended, and did not disappoint. I will buy this book for many people as it’s simplistic, yet very deep truths are clearly understood and easily implemented. An excellent roadmap for healing.
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- rocksteady
- 10-14-24
Validated, knowing restoration will come.
After passing through 5 years of trauma as an adult of spousal abandonment, facing the music, defamation, vocational treachery, single fatherhood, financial entanglement….
I floundered and wandered and toiled through adversity from every angle I could imagine with a Pandora’s box I never thought would be unleashed. Kept my eyes on Jesus and trusted him every time to hold me and carry me. Your two books have been the most life-changing and validating books I’ve ever read. I’ve pushed through the adversity with all that you’ve shared, navigating in a dark sea without stars, leaning on Jesus and trusting how he was developing my heart, character and body. Climbing mountains, martial arts, going on wanders, meeting friends in their trauma and hardships while being present and patient with myself.
Guided by Try Softer
Validated by Strong Like Water
Now I only wait for the day I can pull the mountain out of the ground as Jesus restores a bountiful life from the ashes that I’ve come from.
Thank you Aundi🫡
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- Sarah
- 03-01-24
Narration was distracting
I tried to listen to this book several times and couldn’t figure out what it was that wasn’t landing for me. I finally figured out it was the tone and rhythm of the narrator who used the same rhythm pattern every several syllables, and repeated it over, and over. I know this is really subjective, but it was distracting for me.
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