Smiling While Breaking

What I Carried in Silence, and How I Learned to Put It Down

von Sandrine Barhins

152 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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There is a particular kind of breaking that no one sees.It is the kind that happens quietly-in the moments you learn to swallow your feelings, in the disappointments you convince yourself do not matter, and in the parts of yourself you set aside just to keep moving. From the outside, you may look fine. You may smile, show up, keep achieving, keep loving, keep believing. But somewhere beneath it all, you know there are things you have been carrying for far too long.Smiling While Breaking: What I Carried in Silence, and How I Learned to Put It Down is a deeply personal memoir about what happens when the things we carry begin to shape the way we see ourselves, our relationships, our future, and even our faith.Through reflections on childhood, disappointment, rejection, complicated connections, forgiveness, and the quiet battles that are often difficult to explain, Sandrine Barhins traces the journey of becoming-of learning to understand the woman she became while trying to survive the things she could not always name.This is not a story about having everything figured out. It is about asking difficult questions and being willing to sit with the answers. Why did this hurt me so deeply? Why did I keep holding on? What does forgiveness look like when you cannot change what happened? And how do you move forward without carrying every piece of your past with you?At the heart of these reflections is faith. Not a faith that promises an easy life, but one that teaches you to keep walking when you cannot see the whole path. Through her relationship with God, Sandrine begins to discover that healing does not always mean forgetting, and forgiveness does not always mean returning. Sometimes it means accepting what happened, releasing what you cannot control, and trusting God with the parts of your story you still do not understand.Smiling While Breaking is ultimately about putting down the weight you have become accustomed to carrying. It is about outgrowing the versions of yourself that were built for survival and making room for the person you are still becoming.For anyone who has ever looked strong on the outside while quietly falling apart within, this book offers an honest reflection on pain, faith, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming whole again.You do not have to carry everything into the future simply because you carried it through the past.Maybe it is time to put some of it down.This is the second edition of Smiling While Breaking, previously published under the same title by Sandrine Barhins.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174931237
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published