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UNHAPPY ACHIEVER

REJECTING THE GOOD GIRL IMAGE AND RECLAIMING

THE JOY OF INNER FULFILLMENT
Ashley Jordan

ISBN 978-1-63756-043-3

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Publication: 29 NOVEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781637560433
Price: £19.99

Binding: Hardback
Format: 216 x 140 mm
Extent: 248 pp

Thema: DMC Memoir

Comp title: 9780593135938 High Achiever

Unhappy Achiever is a story of healing, of revolutionary
awakening—of what happens when we summon our
courage to step out from behind the mask of the “good girl”

to wholeheartedly embrace our true selves and the joy of
Ashley Jordan has done many things throughout her life. She’s been being perfectly imperfect.
a feminist activist, licensed attorney, public speaker, and a stay-at-
home mother. Most notably, however, she’s a well-published journalist It’s no secret that women have been sold a bill of goods:
with her works appearing in The New York Times, The Washington we’re taught we can—and should—have it all and that
Post, The Guardian, and HuffPost, among others. Today, she lives in happiness is ours for the taking…if. If we go to college and
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her three children and their dog, Libby. become a degreed professional. If we marry someone
respectable and buy a house in a picturesque
neighbourhood. If we become the proud parents of two
children. If we land our dream job, get promoted, or make
partner. Women spend decades, even lifetimes, believing:
If I can just do—or have—or become—that one thing, I’ll be
satisfied, content, complete.

Many of us nearly “do” ourselves to death, sacrificing health
and relationships to arrive at some elusive, “ultimate” point
of existence. Still, no matter how much we do, genuine
satisfaction evades us. And the parts of us we sought to fill
with the trappings of wealth, power, goodness, and praise
somehow feel emptier than before. All the while, missing
the most fundamental key to our happiness—the joy of
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Phone: 01892 837171 ultimately, the magic, wisdom, and wholeness we
encounter when we exist unencumbered and unobscured
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