{"product_id":"grit-for-the-pearl-paperback","title":"Grit for the Pearl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't set out to write a book, I merely wanted to not be ashamed of my story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause I was told no one needed or wanted to hear it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich felt wrong. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeriously wrong. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wrongest of wrongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I started sharing parts of my story on a public platform, and it just so turned out people needed and wanted to hear it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains the stories of stumbling blocks in my life: severe Crohn's disease, miscarriage, divorce, a traumatic car wreck, brain damage, assault, and all the People-Pleasing, Perfectionistic, ways I used to try to navigate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt also contains the stories of my stepping stones: earning a doctorate, founding a company, writing books and speaking to sold-out audiences, becoming an unexpected foster mother overnight-all while hoping to transform the grit in my life into an illuminating pearl. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy writing in this book is raw and open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's unfiltered and unrefined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut real pearls have blemishes, pits, oblong shapes, variations in luster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, indeed they are still a pearl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it just so turns out, through all that grit, so am I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67968545390815,"sku":"9798991268707","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/na8xT89Tdj9798991268707.webp?v=1791762743","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/grit-for-the-pearl-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}