#1 Amazon Bestseller in Health Psychology
After six cancer diagnoses, Anette DeMattio learned something we’re rarely taught:
our bodies aren’t betraying us — they’re communicating.
We don’t become strong by accident.
But the way we’ve been strong may be costing us.
If you’re the one who holds everything together—at work, at home, in your relationships—you already know what this feels like.
You step up.
You push through.
You carry more than you should.
And for a while… it works.
Until it doesn’t.
Too Strong for Your Own Good is about what happens when the strength that helped you survive becomes the very thing that disconnects you from yourself.
Not because something is wrong with you.
Because it’s the only way you learned to be.
This book names that pattern—five of them, actually:
The First Responder.
The Empty Cup.
The Cart Puller.
The Stoic Swan.
The Island.
You’ll recognize yourself in one before you finish the first chapter.
And it shows you how to shift it—
without losing your drive, your success, or who you are.
Not by doing less.
By stopping what’s costing you.
If something in you is already recognizing this…
you’re not late.
You’re right on time.
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Anette DeMattio, MA, is a bestselling author, executive coach and founder of The Too Strong Movement. A six-time cancer survivor, she draws on organizational psychology, neuroscience and somatic healing to help the ones everyone depends on..... release survival patterns and reclaim their lives - guiding people from Survival Strong to Soul Strong.
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