Be the One You Need: 21 Life Lessons I Learned While Taking Care of Everyone But Me - Paperback

by Sophia a. Nelson (Author)

From acclaimed journalist Sophia A. Nelson, the bestselling author of The Woman Code, comes a poignant, powerful, and revealing memoir providing life lessons that emphasize the importance of self-care, self-love, and self-understanding that will lead to freedom, healing from the past, and a better future.

In deeply personal reflections, acclaimed journalist Sophia A. Nelson offers an inspirational memoir that will guide you on a path toward true and meaningful self-care. She shares 21 life lessons she's learned to help us accept that when we dare to face our traumas, losses, fears, family dysfunctions, and relationship issues, we can heal from them. She shows us that doing the work of meaningful and consistent self-care not only makes us happier, but better spouses, parents, siblings, lovers, employers, and neighbors. In this powerfully raw and honest book, you'll discover:

- How to manage your emotions before they manage you;

- How to protect your peace, the passport to your soul;

- Why the most important relationship you have is with yourself; and

- How to be intentional about your choices.

The compelling lessons in Be the One You Need clearly demonstrate that the answers we seek to life's questions are always within us. Nelson empowers us to finally ask ourselves, What do I want? What do I need? How do I feel? And once we hear the answers of our soul, how to put them into practice.

Author Biography

Sophia A. Nelson is an award-winning author, journalist, and university scholar/adjunct professor in Virginia. Nelson is a USA Today columnist and contributing editor to thegrio.com as well as a contributor to the Washington Post. You can see her regularly on MSNBC, CNN, and PBS as a legal and political analyst. She was most recently a scholar-in-residence and adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Christopher Newport University. She is a former investigative counsel to the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform, and senior counsel with the international law firm of Holland & Knight, LLP. She is the author of three other nonfiction books: Black Woman Redefined, The Woman Code, and ePluribus One.