Too Strong For Your Own Good: Success With Soul

The hidden emotional cost of being the strong one— and the shift from survival-based living to reconnecting with your body, soul and sense of self.

After six cancer diagnoses, Anette DeMattio learned something we're rarely taught: our bodies aren't betraying us - they're communicating.

The same strength that helped you survive can quietly become the thing that disconnects you from yourself.

If you're the one who holds everything together — at work, at home, in your relationships — you already know what this feels like.

You step up. You push through. You carry more than you should.

And for a while It works...until it doesn't.

Too Strong For Your Own Good is about what happens when survival mode quietly becomes your identity. Because it worked. And eventually, survival starts feeling like who you are.

This book names those patterns - five of them, actually:

The First Responder. The Empty Cup. The Cart Puller. The Stoic Swan. The Island.

By the time you meet them, you'll already recognize yourself in one-or all. .

And you'll begin learning how to shift these patters —  without losing your drive, your ambition, or the parts of you that care deeply.

By coming home to yourself again.

 "An affecting guide that effectively reframes the idea of unraveling as a necessary release."— Kirkus Reviews — Our Verdict: GET IT! 

 "A warm, accessible guide to healing from the inside out."— Publishers Weekly BookLife 

#1 Amazon Bestseller — Health Psychology 

Independent Press Award — Distinguished Favorite 

Literary TitanBook Award — Gold Winner 

International Impact Book Awards — Gold Winner