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Badass Stories focuses on what we can easily miss in the shitshow of life-the big lessons that come from the accumulation of little things in the everyday. The stories are real, relatable, and therapeutic for the average person, without the extreme positivity that can leave some readers feeling they are being told to think happy thoughts, which can convey a sense of inadequacy.
About the author
Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is a board-certified health psychologist who has been in private practice for over 20 years. She is the author of multiple saucy self-help books, including
Getting to Good Riddance: A No-Bullsh*t Breakup Guide and
Move on Motherf*cker: Live, Laugh & Let Sh*t Go. She regularly facilitates self-care workshops for health care professionals. Jodie is a recovering people pleaser and master of spicy self-talk methods.
Summary
Real-life lessons of grit and growth that come from being a bona fide Badass!
Overcoming life’s many disappointments begins with one thing: grit. But what is grit, and how can we know what it looks like in the sh*tshow of life?
Drawing from her own experience and psychology practice, psychologist Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, author of Getting to Good Riddance: A No-Bullsh*t Breakup Survival Guide, weaves together a collection of gritty stories of survival, hope, and healing in the face of overwhelming pain and adversity.
Badass Stories illustrates how real people have used tools like grit and hope to make it through life’s challenges—great and small—and foster growth and healing in the process. These seriously motivational tales will inspire you to harness the grit it takes to succeed, show up for the fight, call out your own bullsh*t, and become the Badass you were meant to be!
