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Didn’t See That Coming | I Call Bullshit
A Chapter by Chapter Review of Didn’t See That Coming by Rachel Hollis
As I understood, this book was about surviving grief. The subtitle of the book is “putting life back together when your world falls apart.” But upon further examination, I discovered the audience for Didn’t See That Coming is anyone who has experienced hard times. The inside flap says, “You don’t need a catastrophic event to appreciate the good things in your life.”
The chapter “I Call Bullshit” serves as an introduction to the book and details the narrative’s main themes: pain is meant to be felt, you can get through this, and hard times make hard people.
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“It’s going to be impossible to move forward if you can’t first acknowledge that it sucks mightily that you’re here in the first place.” pg. 8
“But in order to do that, you’ve got to be real. You have to allow yourself to truly feel what you feel before you can feel what you’d like.” pg. 15
This message is similar to a quote from C.S. Lewis, “pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Nothing could be more true when it comes to grief. Grief demands to be felt. You have…
