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Don't Try This Alone

How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain

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Don't Try This Alone

By: Toni Collier
Narrated by: Toni Collier, Jackie Hill Perry
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Discover how to find healing from the pain and heartbreak in your life when you allow God and His people to come alongside you.

Author and founder of Broken Crayons Still Color, Toni Collier shows you that it's not only possible to heal from the things that have broken you but that you can build a strong, life-giving community to support you, be with you in the valleys, and speak love and truth into your life as God puts you back together again.

There's no avoiding pain in this world. Whether it's in the form of betrayal, trauma, illness, grief, or abandonment, we've all experienced the kind of pain that completely consumes us and transforms how we show up in the world. Whatever pain is felt, we're often left feeling alone, ashamed, and unsure where to turn for help. We're not sure we can trust others again, we pull back from social engagement, and we feel as if our hearts may never recover. But it doesn't have to be this way.

In Don't Try This Alone, Toni Collier shares how you can have hope in the midst of your most difficult days when you let others in. Opening up about her own experiences of walking through heartbreak, betrayal, and suffering, she shows you the importance of being vulnerable and allowing others to come alongside you as you heal—instead of trying to do it on your own—and gives you practical advice for how to actually heal.

Don't Try This Alone will encourage and guide you to:

  • Discover that healing is a hard, nonlinear, but worthwhile journey
  • Understand why being alone in your pain is dangerous
  • Identify problematic thoughts and the misguided responses from others that keep you trapped in toxic patterns
  • Recognize the qualities of safe people

Toni teaches you that in every tough circumstance, the way forward is always with God and his people. The hard stuff is coming, but we can get through it if we don't do it alone.

A template can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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As a Christian women's leader, I learned a lot from this book. We're often so worried about revealing our pain, failures, shame, and innermost thoughts with others, for fear of judgement. This book gives practical advice and encouragement to women about creating and being part of community with Christ at the centre, where we can be instrumental in each other's healing and growth. Highly recommend.

Healing comes from doing life with others

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Deeply relatable and easy to understand. She makes community something that feels easier to understand and practice. Definitely recommend.

Truly loved it

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