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Didn’t See That Coming | Identify the New You
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.”
From a Christian perspective, I would never take Hollis’s advice about identity. Hollis doesn’t say to find your identity in Christ, but in yourself. “Identity literally means being who or what you are. And you get to choose that.” pg. 33 But knowing that Hollis and I don’t have the same belief system, both under the same blanket of Christianity, I don’t expect her to give me sound advice when it comes to spiritual issues.
Good
“I truly believe it’s possible to achieve anything you want, with hard work, but you don’t get to control the variables that will make it so or the time frame in which it appears.” pg. 36
I’m glad she said this because I have criticized her for her toxic hustle culture before. You can’t out hustle cancer or a pandemic.
