ARE YOU TOO STRONG FOR YOUR OWN GOOD?
Too Strong For Your Own Good
Success With Soul
You've been carrying too much for too long.
This book helps you understand why and shows you how to come home to yourself again.
Surviving is only part of the story.
What happens next?
If you've spent years holding everything together while running on empty, you're not alone.
Many of the qualities we admire most, responsibility, resilience, independence, achievement, and caregiving, can become the very patterns that disconnect us from ourselves.
Written after six cancer diagnoses, years of chronic pain, and decades helping survivors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, leaders, and high achievers, this award-winning book offers a path from Survival Strong to Soul Strong.
Why I Wrote This Book
What if the very strength that helped you survive is now keeping you disconnected from
yourself?
After surviving six cancer diagnoses, I began noticing a pattern.
Not just in myself. Everywhere.
The strongest people were often the most exhausted. The caregivers. The healthcare professionals. The leaders. The parents. The survivors. The people everyone depended on.
They knew how to survive. But many had never learned how to stop surviving.
Too Strong For Your Own Good helps readers understand the survival patterns that drive burnout, over-responsibility, emotional exhaustion, and self-abandonment and shows them how to reconnect with themselves again.
Awards & Recognition
★ #1 Amazon Bestseller in Health Psychology
★ Kirkus Reviews: Our Verdict GET IT!
★ International Book Award
★ Hope, Healing & Personal Transformation Award Winner
Independent Press Award
Distinguished Favorite
International Book Award
winner
International Impact
Book Awards · Winner
Hope Ambassador Award
Winner
Who This Book Is For
the people everyone depends on
The Helper
The Caregiver
The Fixer
The Achiever
The Leader
Parents
Anyone who became the strong one
What Readers Are Saying
★★★★★
She names the invisible cost of being the strong one, the parts most women never say out loud because they're too busy powering through. That recognition alone is its own kind of healing.
Amazon reviewer
★★★★★
I didn't realize that I could be strong to my own detriment. She was raw and touched my soul. This book is perfect for yourself or as a gift.
Amazon reviewer
★★★★★
I would recommend this book to anyone who is deeply tired in a way that sleep simply cannot fix.
Amazon reviewer
What the Critics Are Saying
literary titaN
Tired in a way sleep does not fix… it felt less like being taught and more like being invited.
BookLife (Publishers Weekly)
Healing isn't about getting there faster. It's about arriving more whole.
About the Author
Anette DeMattio is a six-time cancer survivor, author, speaker, and founder of the TOO STRONG method.
For more than two decades, she has helped people navigate burnout, reinvention and life after adversity while exploring the hidden emotional cost of always being the strong one.
Today, she helps survivors, caregivers, healthcare professionals and leaders move beyond survival and reconnect with themselves through greater self-trust, freedom and emotional well-being.
Too Strong For Your Own Good was written from lived experience, for anyone who has spent years surviving and is ready to discover what becomes possible beyond it.
Strength helped you survive.
This book is an invitation to discover what becomes possible beyond it.
Available on Amazon. Read it once, return to it again.
Strength helped us survive.
Soul Strong is how we live now.
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