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Permission Granted: Be Who You Were Made to Be and Let Go of the Rest
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From award-winning blogger Melissa Camara Wilkins, come and find a stunningly simple path to confidence and clarity. All you have to do is give yourself permission to show up as your gloriously imperfect self.

Trying to fix yourself is exhausting. But being yourself - that is both possible and life-giving. The key is a simple heart-shift from chasing after perfection to learning to tell a truer story about ourselves, the world, and our place in it.

Melissa Camara Wilkins invites you into her journey of discovering the profound simplicity of dropping the pretenses and allowing ourselves to be fully human - flaws and all. This is a story about making life simpler by letting go of who you think youre supposed to be and becoming who you really are.

With wit and compassion, Melissa explores how to be present, show up as your real self, and get comfortable in your own skin by aligning the truth inside you with the life you live on the outside. Gain confidence with the freeing practices of dropping the mask, abandoning the experts, and understanding your real assignment. With refreshing honesty and insight, Melissa invites you to move from the either/or dichotomy into a spacious freedom of embracing the both/and - brave and scared, messy and real, gloriously imperfect and absolutely enough. This is your permission slip to be your whole, human self.

For everyone who feels the pressure to fit in, measure up, and get it together, Permission Granted is a life-giving invitation to soul-level simplicity.

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This book is a beautiful reminder that one of the most powerful gifts we can give to our families and to the world is to show up for our own lives and be who we really are.

M EGAN T AMTE , co-CEO and cofounder of EVEREVE

For those who feel defeated, downtrodden, or just plain tired, Melissa Camara Wilkinss gentle, grace-filled encouragement may be exactly what you need to hear.

A NNE B OGEL , author, creator of Modern Mrs. Darcy, and host of the What Should I Read Next? podcast

This is a book for anyone who struggles with feeling like she has to measure up, get it all together, and constantly improve herself. In sharing her story, Melissa reminds us all that you dont have to fix yourself before youre worthy of love and belonging.

A LLISON F ALLON , bestselling author and founder of Find Your Voice

I hadnt even finished the first chapter of Permission Granted before I found myself crying tears of relief. Melissas vulnerable tone is a rare gift in our picture-perfect grammable world, and her stories and subsequent permission slips offer women a simple, audacious possibility to consider: perhaps we already are who weve been frantically trying to become.

J AMIE C. M ARTIN , author of Introverted Mom and editor of SimpleHomeschool.net

I didnt know how much I needed Permission Granted until I started reading Melissa Camara Wilkinss words. Not only did she give me permission to enter into the messy moments of life and tune myself to the present, but with generous doses of grace and humor alike, she reminded me to love, let myself be love, and let myself receive love. I dont think theres a better gift an author can give a reader.

C ARA M EREDITH , author of The Color of Life: A Journey Toward Love and Racial Justice

This book will have you asking yourself hard questions and will give you courage to really listen for the answers. Melissa has written us all a permission slip to discover who we really are, so we can be our whole selves in our real lives.

D ANEEN A KERS , author of Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints

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Epub Edition September 2019 9780310353584

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Interior design: Denise Froelich

Cover design: connie gabbert | design + illustration

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For Dane,

and for Abigail, Owen, Audrey, Sadie, Eli, and Evelyn.

You are all the best.

Contents

I Am the Worst

Life is complicated. What Ive always wanted life to be is... simple? Simpler, anyway. Im not talking about the kind of simplicity that comes from giving away half the furniture and painting the walls white, or sitting around on an empty beach all day, though that doesnt sound so bad. I just mean Ive always wanted to feel like I had it all together, like I was qualified to be a person. But no. Life has always been complicated, and most of the time I was pretty sure I was doing it wrong.

In fact, I had a charming personal mantra that went like this: I am the worst. It was like an affirmation, except the opposite. Some people say, Im good enough, Im smart enough, and I have what it takes. I said, Ugh, I should have known.

My phone is out of power? I am the worst at recharging.

Sauce on my shirt? I am the worst at spaghetti.

What was that guys name? I am the worst at remembering.

Everyone else seemed so confident about existing. Yes, they seemed to say, I do take up space on this planet and thats cool.

I, on the other hand, was running late, wearing the wrong shoes, and anxious about whether the twinge in my side meant I was dying of an undiscovered illness, or if Id just strained a muscle by sneezing while reaching for my sunglasses. In other words, everyone else was pretty much okay and I was kind of a mess, so everyone else was better and I was the worst. This was basically a mathematical law. Or at least logic.

Sorry to be slow to reply. I am the worst at email. Or texting. Or commenting on things. Or remembering that we are in the middle of a conversation.

Am I in your way? I am the worst at predicting where other people will want to walk and preemptively choosing another place to stand. So sorry. Ill move.

Im sorry were late. And that I tried to sneak in without being noticedwith all six of my kids. We had a minor emergency involving a hair tie and raspberry jam. I am the worst at getting out the door.

And if youve ever in the history of the world left me a voicemail, I will never know because I am the worst at voicemail. I will see the red dot and want to get rid of it, but that is where my skills end. I will never listen to the message, and I will never call you back. I have no idea how to do those things, and I dont even want to learn. I really am the worst at phones.

If you say it with a half-smile and a shake of your head, it sounds more like a fun status update and less like final judgment.

I said yes when I should have said no? Im the worst!

I missed something, I overlooked it, I forgot. Im just the worst.

I dont even want to get out of bed. Im so tired. Im the worst.

I cant handle this. Im not good enough, Im not strong enough, I cant do enough. I am out of everything. I cant breathe. Im the worst.

I was judging myself so other people wouldnt have to, as a helpful little service to us both. I was deciding I came up short before anyone else ever needed to measure. I thought that was my job, because I could see the truth about myself, and the truth was that I had a whole bunch of not-perfect going on inside. I had a whole bunch of not-perfect going on outside, too. The truth looked, to me, like a giant list of things to work on. The least I could do was call it what it was: the worst. (Youre welcome.)

I did understand all the things that were expected of me. I could see all the Life Rules; Id just never been able to follow them allI couldnt follow the rules about looking just right and not being too weird, or the rules about not taking up space (did I mention the six kids?), or the rules about buying all the right things. Ive always had way too many feelings to follow the rules about being low maintenance or quiet or go-with-the-flow. I couldnt do any of that, but I could at least let you know I understood the program. That was how I made up for not fitting into the system. It was like an existence tax. The worst .

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