An Under Pressure Book
By Polly Mae Cashin
What if you could feel at home in the life everyone else sees?
You may be capable, dependable, and good at what you do. People trust you to handle things. Yet even when life is working, something inside never fully settles. Being yourself has begun to feel like something you have to keep getting right.
Image Under Pressure looks beneath the image you present to others—and beneath the expectations you have learned to carry about yourself. What has being useful, successful, agreeable, or in control come to promise you? When did something you do become how you know you are okay?
Through ordinary moments at work, at home, and in relationships, this book invites you to recognize what takes the lead when something feels at stake. Some responses have been familiar for so long that they feel like who you are. Seeing how they earned your trust can make room to discover whether their promises still deserve it.
Perhaps effort has been carrying a job it was never meant to do: securing your worth, your belonging, or your safety. As what has been leading becomes visible, you may find more room to speak honestly, receive help, leave something unfinished, or rest without having to earn it first.
A new normal can begin there. What once felt necessary may no longer have the same authority. And the life you live can begin to feel more like a place you belong.
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The Under Pressure series explores how we love, what we try to prove, where we turn for relief, and where we find refuge. The Silent Voices Novels bring those same questions to life through one family’s story.
