More Than Useful

How I Lost Myself in a Good Life-and Finally Came Home to Myself

von Christine Nadala

180 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

I spent nearly fifty years becoming everything for everyone-until I finally chose myself.Christine had built the life she once worked so hard to achieve: a loving marriage, two children she adored, a home, security, and a successful nursing career.She was capable, hardworking, dependable-and always useful.There was only one person she had rarely learned to make room for: herself.Then COVID brought illness and mortality frighteningly close. During an ordinary shift in the Emergency Department, the nurse suddenly became the patient. Christine walked into Room 31 to prepare a bed for someone else's emergency. Minutes later, she was the one lying in it.Her tests were reassuring. The fear wasn't.What followed forced Christine to look beyond what might be wrong with her body and toward a question she had spent most of her life avoiding: Who was she when she wasn't taking care of everyone else?From a childhood in the Philippines shaped by hard work, responsibility, and sacrifice to building a life in America as a nurse, wife, mother, and provider, Christine began to recognize how deeply she had connected being needed with being worthy.More Than Useful is not a story about abandoning the people you love or the life you've built. It is about discovering that you can love them deeply without disappearing from your own life.Sometimes, finding yourself doesn't require leaving your life behind. It requires finally making room for yourself inside it.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798171205287
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published