Thought Catalog - The Life That's Waiting (book)

by Brianna Wiest -Featured in Oprah Daily, Parade, and Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper. -From the author whose books have sold over one million copies worldwide. Some books ask you to work harder on yourself. This one asks you to stop forcing — and start arriving. "The Life That's Waiting" is the latest collection from Brianna Wiest, internationally bestselling author of "The Mountain Is You," "The Pivot Year," and "101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think," with books now translated into 40+ languages. Wiest began writing this book from a deeply personal place: a wish she had at 19 for something like a field guide to being human — not a manual of grand answers, but a companion for the messy, unspoken crossroads of life. Years of living, seeking, and writing later, this is that book. On the other side of the life you are trying to keep together, on the other side of the pain you think will never dissolve into peace, on the other side of everything you are forcing — is the life that is waiting. The life