Thought Catalog - You Were Always Growing (Even In The Dark) - book

by Charlotte Freeman Not all growth feels like growth. Some of it feels like falling apart, standing still, or losing your way entirely — and this book is for those seasons. "You Were Always Growing: Even in the Dark" is the third and most recent collection from Charlotte Freeman, bestselling author of "Everything You'll Ever Need" and "This Was Meant to Find You." Where her earlier books focused on healing from heartbreak and reclaiming self-worth, this one speaks to something broader and, for many readers, even more disorienting: the experience of being in a difficult chapter you can't quite name — a career crossroads, a lost sense of direction, a relationship or life path that no longer fits — and not knowing whether the changes happening to you are leading somewhere or just leading nowhere. Freeman's answer, in her characteristically warm and direct voice, is that they are always leading somewhere. The dark seasons, the unexpected curveballs, the moments when you find yourself going backwards — these a