Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

Author: Shauna Niequist
ISBN: 9780310346715
Publisher: Zondervan
Year: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Language: English

About This Book

Shauna Niequist is a bestselling author, speaker, and storyteller whose writing is known for its warmth, honesty, and profound humanity. In Present Over Perfect, she shares one of the most important journeys of her life — the one away from exhaustion, busyness, and the relentless pressure to perform, and toward something far more meaningful: presence.

Written as a collection of personal essays, this book traces Shauna’s own reckoning with burnout and isolation, and the gradual rediscovery of grace, rest, simplicity, and deep connection. She writes not from a place of having it all figured out, but from the middle of the journey — honest, vulnerable, and deeply relatable.

This is a book about choosing your essential self over the exhausting image of perfection. About silence over noise, depth over breadth, and the quiet, radical act of simply showing up — in the mess, the ordinariness, the real.

Why This Book Is Perfect For You

If you've ever felt burned out by your own life — stretched thin by busyness and longing for something slower and more soulful — Shauna Niequist will feel like a friend who truly understands. Her essays are gentle, grounding, and quietly transformative. A book to savour slowly, one chapter at a time, with a cup of tea and permission to breathe.

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