Shauna Niequist Books

With gorgeous color photography from the author, Present Over Perfect Guided Journal by Shauna Niequist provides a beautiful invitation to weave the truths from Present Over Perfect into your life.

A collection of essays about family relationships, friendships, and the mealsthat bring us together. Written by a well-loved writer and blogger, this is afunny, honest, and vulnerable spiritual memoir about life around the table.

A clear-eyed look at what happens when everything we've been clinging to falls apart--what we keep, what we let go, and how we're transformed along the way. Just after her fortieth birthday, New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist found herself in a season of chaos, change, and loss unlike anything she'd ever experienced. She discovered that many of the beliefs and practices that had been useful up to that point no longer worked. After trying--and failing--to pull herself back up using the same old tools, she realized she required new ones: courage, curiosity, compassion, and self-compassion. She discovered the way through was more about questions than answers, more about forgiveness than force, more about tenderness than trying hard. I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet is a journey of both unlearning what is no longer helpful, embracing curiosity, and accepting the unknowns of midlife, heartbreak, and chronic pain. Niequist writes with characteristic candor and grace about the challenges and delights of a move from the Midwest to Manhattan, and also the challenges and delights of releasing our expectations for how we thought our lives would look. Follow Niequist on her journey to understand grief, to reshape her faith, to practice courage when all she wanted to do was hide. This is a book about learning how to live in a new city, learning how to get back up, and learning how to trust God's goodness in a deeper way.

It's said that the only thing that doesn't change in life is change itself. In Bittersweet, a collection of poignant essays, New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist reflects on her own journey of making peace with change, embracing the gifts and wisdom it brings, and the practices that offer us strength and hope along the way.

New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist invites you on a 365-day journey to soak up the goodness all around you and notice the divine in the daily---whether that's a hug, a tomato sandwich, a quiet moment, or a text from a loved one.

A collection of essays that focuses on the most important transformation in Niequist's life: leaving behind busyness and frantic living and rediscovering the person you were made to be.

This five-session video study captures the spirit of a storyteller on a journey home with all of its pain, fears, learnings, hopes, and joy.

'The idea of bittersweet is changing the way I live, unraveling and re-weaving the way I understand life. Bittersweet is the idea that in all things there is both something broken and something beautiful, that there is a moment of lightness on even the darkest of nights, a shadow of hope in every heartbreak, and that rejoicing is no less rich even when it contains a splinter of sadness. 'It's the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul. Bitter is what makes us strong, what forces us to push through, what helps us earn the lines on our faces and the calluses on our hands. Sweet is nice enough, but bittersweet is beautiful, nuanced, full of depth and complexity. Bittersweet is courageous, gutsy, audacious, earthy. 'This is what I've come to believe about change: it's good, in the way that childbirth is good, and heartbreak is good, and failure is good. By that I mean that it's incredibly painful, exponentially more so if you fight it, and also that it has the potential to open you up, to open life up, to deliver you right into the palm of God's hand, which is where you wanted to be all long, except that you were too busy pushing and pulling your life into exactly what you thought it should be. 'I've learned the hard way that change is one of God's greatest gifts, and most useful tools. Change can push us, pull us, rebuke and remake us. It can show us who we've become, in the worst ways, and also in the best ways. I've learned that it's not something to run away from, as though we could, and that in many cases, change is a function of God's graciousness, not life's cruelty.' Niequist, a keen observer of life with a lyrical voice, writes with the characteristic warmth and honesty of a dear friend: always engaging, sometimes challenging, but always with a kind heart. You will find Bittersweet savory reading, indeed. 'This is the work I'm doing now, and the work I invite you into: when life is sweet, say thank you, and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you, and grow.'

Świat chciałby, abyś była idealna. Intensywnie pracowała, miała czas dla dzieci i była zjawiskowo piękna. Stajesz się zakładniczką coraz większych i nierealnych oczekiwań. Z Shauną Niequist było podobnie. Goniła za karierą, gdy jej synkowie stawiali pierwsze kroki. Pakowała walizkę na kolejną delegację, nawet gdy poroniła, a na lotnisku wymiotowała z wyczerpania. Myślała, że właśnie praca sprawia, że jest ważna, potrzebna i kochana. Wiedziała, że to zła droga, ale nie potrafiła uwolnić się od presji. Do czasu kiedy dostała list od przyjaciółki: „Stop, zatrzymaj się. Przemebluj swoje życie od podstaw”. To był pierwszy dzień reszty jej nowego życia. Teraz Shauna umie zrezygnować z kariery, aby spędzać czas z bliskimi. W swoim spokojnym życiu gotuje, modli się, kocha i jest kochana. Wie, że Bóg ją chroni, więc nie goni za każdą propozycją zawodową. Szpilki zmieniła na trampki, częściej mówi „nie”, otworzyła drzwi swojego domu dla przyjaciół. Postanowiła być szczęśliwa! Poznaj historię Shauny, która zainspirowała tysiące kobiet do zmiany myślenia o sobie, świecie i Bogu. I zobacz, że życie jest piękne, jeśli żyjesz po swojemu! Shauna Niequist – matka, żona. Wierzy, że opowiadanie historii, głośny śmiech i zimna pizza na śniadanie są dobre niemal na wszystko. Shauna to mól książkowy i pasjonatka spotkań… szczególnie przy stole.

Shauna Niequists 365 Andachten sind perfekt für Frauen, die nur wenig Zeit haben, aber ihr geistliches Leben pflegen wollen. Ihre Botschaft: 'Tauche tief ein in die Güte Gottes und genieße jeden Augenblick!'