The Stories We Tell

Every Piece of Your Story Matters

De: Joanna Gaines

Narrado por: Joanna Gaines

Duración: 5 h y 28 m

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Imagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise. Imagine if the stories we tell brought us back to our true selves, back to one another. Imagine if they spoke of how we loved and lost and tried our best. How we saw it all, even the parts that hurt.

Joanna Gaines' new book, The Stories We Tell, invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story—and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own—guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth.

We've all dropped anchor in places that suited us for a time: a city, a perspective, a lie we mistook as truth. This book is an invitation to a kind of life where you know how to hold what you believe—about yourself and the quiet worlds behind the people you pass—with gracious and open hands. To see your story as greater than any past or future thing, but for all the beauty and joy and hope it holds today.

It’s an invitation to take stock of the chapters you’ve lived—the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly—glean what’s gold, and carry only that forward. Let it slow your feet and steady your life-in-motion so you can see where you stand today from a new point of view. No longer through weary or uncertain eyes, but a lens brimming with hope.

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"The only way to break free was to rewrite my story. Because something would happen every time my pen stopped: It was like my soul was coming back to my body. Like the deepest parts of me that got knocked around and drowned out by all the crap I let the world convince me about who I was came back to the surface. And what was left was only what was real and true. I was, finally, standing in the fullness of my story. I felt hopeful. I felt full. Our story may crack us open, but it also pieces us back together.

We all have a story to tell. This happens to be mine—every chapter a window into who I am, the journey I’m on, and the season I’m in right now. Because this is my story, maybe you won’t always relate, or maybe it will feel like you’re looking in a mirror. Whatever we have in common and whatever differences lie between us, I only hope my story can help shine a light on the beauty of yours. That my own soul work will stir something of your own. And that by the time you get to the end of my story, you’re also holding the beautiful beginnings of your own.

A story only you can tell. And I hope that you will."
-Joanna

©2022 Joanna Gaines (P)2022 Harper Select

Heartwarming

Great book for when you need a boost. Thank you Joanna for sharing your story so we can feel the courage to share ours.

Wonderful book!

The little girl on skates story gave me goosebumps….felt like I was telling my own story…thank you for writing this book! I’m such a huge fan!!

I didn’t want it to end!

Joanna is so well-spoken and wise and her story is so inspiring. I loved it!

An authentic and transparent book

I love how Joanna shares her story in such a transparent and authentic way, such a rare jewel to uncover. I too am in a season of asking myself similar questions and I found great encouragement and wisdom in Joanna’s story and thoughts on how to come back to my core and remember who I am and what I was created for by God.

Amazing!!!

Highly highly recommend this book! It is a real treat to not only hear Joanna’s heart through her words but to actually hear her speak them to life through Audible. This book forces you to stop and think about where you are in your story and how you would write it. Loved it!

Honest and Heartwarming

Joanna Gaines is an amazing human. No better way to spend the hours and minutes listening to her story than soaking in her wisdom and inspiration.

An amazing glimpse into someone else’s life

So encouraging and vulnerable. Beautifully written and read. Will listen to it again and certainly learn more.

Wonderful Book

I really enjoyed this book and reflecting back on my life as she talked through hers.

Great book

This book was so so good and nothing that I expected . So motivating and inspiring

Grateful for you and for this

What a beautiful piece of work. Humble, real and genuinely full of hope and inspiration.

Thank you.
Stacy