Present Over Perfect

A few years ago I found myself tired and isolated, sick in body and soul. I was tired of being tired, tired of work. And it seemed to me that almost everyone I spoke to was in the same boat: looking for connection, meaning, depth, but happy to be busy.

I am a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a neighbor, a writer, and I know this sense of stability all too well. But in recent years, I have learned a way of life characterized by grace, love, rest and play. And that changes everything.

Present Over Perfect is an invitation to this journey that changed my life. I will walk this path with you, a path that takes you away from frantic efforts and exams, and towards your essential being, the one you were created to be before you began to prove and earn your worth.

Written in Shauna's warm and vulnerable style, this collection of essays focuses on the most important transformation of her life, and perhaps yours: leaving behind the path of life and rediscovering who you were created to be. Present Over Perfect is an extended hand, freeing you from the constant pressure to work faster, push harder and produce more while maintaining an exhausting image of perfection. Shauna offers us a candid account of what led her to embark on this journey, as well as a compelling vision of a new way of living: one full of grace, rest, silence, simplicity, prayer and connection with people who have no longer. important to us. .

In these pages you will be invited to consider the landscape of your life and what it could be to let go of the pressure to be perfect and begin the life-changing practice of simply being present, in the midst of the disorder and the mundane. life.