Flaptekst

Did well in school. Check. Graduated and chose a secure career. Check. Found someone to build a family with. Check. Stefanie checked all the boxes, but the one unexpected part of her life: navigating adulthood with anxiety and depression. She struggled to find herself as she added titles to her name: nurse, wife, mother-all things she strived for since she was a young girl and now she felt more lost than ever.


Stefanie spent years of her life focused on building accolades, but as time passed, she started to feel more disconnected from herself. She realized she was living off a script instead of living in her truth. It took years of self-reflection to discover that she was more than all the titles she had worked so hard to attain.


This book is about stripping away societal expectations and the hardship of growing up feeling ten steps behind. It's a story of finding out that life isn't what you thought it was cracked up to be. It's about honesty in the journey of motherhood, in addition to putting your best self forward, even when it's not what others expect of you. It's about navigating each day towards feeling you are enough. And persevering in the face of failure.


Stefanie is an advocate for mental health and is hoping to normalize the conversation surrounding anxiety and depression. She is a Registered Nurse, doula, entrepreneur, and writer. Tackling the stigma around mental health disorders is the first step in finding self-love. Stefanie shares her story in hopes of doing just that for someone else. She highlights that there was not just one instant that deviated her life onto a path of anxiety and depression. She speaks her truth as a way to connect to readers so they know they are not alone and, in reality, they are enough.