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Strong like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things--and Experience True Flourishing Author Ruth Schwenk GA and the founder ofThere's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we've all heard the platitudes: "No pain, no gain." "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But if we spend our lives trying to be "the strong one," we become exhausted, burned out, and disconnected from our truest God given selves. What if it were different? Could there be a different way to be strong? Could strength mean more than pushing on and pushing