What If It's Wonderful?: Release Your Fears, Choose Joy, and Find the Courage to Celebrate
Written by Nicole Zasowski
Narrated by Nicole Zasowski
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About this audiobook
Family therapist Nicole Zasowski challenges you to let go of dwelling in your anxieties and fears and instead ask yourself the question: What if it’s wonderful?
These questions haunt many of us, leaving us sick with anxiety and frozen into inaction: what if my hope only leads to disappointment? What if I embrace joy only to have it ripped from my hands? What if my celebration is the cause of others' sadness? What if my joy takes me away from the God I knew so well in my pain? But these fears don’t have to control your life.
Author and marriage and family therapist Nicole Zasowski knows what it's like to suffer a blow that makes it difficult to look to the future. Despite the struggle, she found the courage to celebrate, and discovered that God is as present in our joy as He is in our pain.
Yes, God's purpose for us is worked out in our struggles. But what if it is also worked out in our dreams and our delighted joy? In What If it's Wonderful? Nicole helps you:
- Overcome the fears that keep you from looking toward the future with joy
- Let go of the lies you've believed about happiness and embrace celebration as a part of spiritual growth
- Approach life with an expectant heart and courage to trust God's good gifts
With a psychological and spiritual case for celebrating, Nicole challenges you to let go of the habit of practicing disappointment and fully embrace joy, beckoning you to ask yourself a new question: What if it's wonderful?
Reflection questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
Nicole Zasowski
Nicole Zasowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the author of From Lost to Found. As an old soul who wears her heart proudly on her sleeve, she enjoys writing and speaking on topics that merge her professional knowledge, faith, and personal experience. Nicole lives in Connecticut with her husband and their three young children.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such an amazing book that helped teach me to be more optimistic. Highly recommend!!