I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working

by Shauna Niequist

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

How do you hold onto and grow your faith through life's difficulties? Shauna Niequist can speak to us from experience, with a relatable voice that feels like a trusted friend.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798212666862
Publisher:	HarperCollins Christian
Publication date:	03/16/2022
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shauna Niequist is the New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including I Guess I Haven’t Learned that Yet and Present Over Perfect. Shauna and her husband, Aaron, and their sons, Henry and William, live in New York City. Shauna is an avid reader and traveler, and a passionate gatherer of people, especially around the table.

Table of Contents

Catching the Light: An Introduction 1

Part 1 Gravity of Love

1 I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet 7

2 Shoulders Down, Heart Open 12

3 Finding a New Way 15

4 On Crying in Church 18

5 She 22

6 Corpse Reviver 25

7 Kicking 29

8 Hello to Here 32

9 Living Lightly 35

10 Gravity of Love 40

Part 2 Unbelonging

11 Buzz the Beach 45

12 The Best Mistake 48

13 Waiting for Daylight 55

14 Healing in the Trying 60

15 Unbelonging 63

16 Learning to Let Go 66

17 Enchantment 69

18 Our First New York-iversary 73

19 Parenting Ourselves 77

20 The Speed of the Soul 83

Part 3 Cold Moon

21 A Midlife Move 91

22 Put Yourself in the Path 94

23 The New York Way 98

24 Grief Is a Kitten 101

25 On Prayer 106

26 Delete/Unfollow/Unsubscribe 111

27 On Having a Body 117

28 North Fork 122

29 Pink Folder 124

30 Cold Moon 130

Part 4 Bloom

31 Magic Desk 135

32 Energy in the Air 139

33 On Resurrection 142

34 On Painting Badly 145

35 A Movable Feast 147

36 Living Lightly Redux 153

37 Rooftop 155

38 Never Too Late 159

39 Bloom 162

40 How to Stay 165

Part 5 Still Yes

41 Recovering 175

42 Abundance 178

43 Keep Going 182

44 Greenport 188

45 One More Song 192

46 Try Softer 195

47 Twenty 200

48 Welcome Home 205

49 Next Self 211

50 Still Yes 216

Acknowledgments 219

Editorial Reviews

This book is a masterpiece. It is a journey and an invitation and a joy and a heartbreak and all the things you need to read to be reminded that hope can still be found.”

New York Times bestselling author Annie F. Downs