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Stop
pretending
you’re fine
A Memoir of Survival, Healing & Rebirth + A Roadmap to Becoming Who You Choose Next
“You’ve mastered survival. Now it’s time to choose you.”
This isn’t a memoir about someone who went through hard things and came out the other side with all the answers. It’s the story of what happens when you get so freaking good at surviving that everyone thinks you’re fine, maybe even you, and life finally forces you to ask a much harder question: What if surviving isn’t the same thing as living?
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This is not your typical healing memoir.
There are stories in this book I spent years wondering if I should tell at all. A frog medicine ceremony deep in the Peruvian Amazon that nearly killed me. A Phoenix that appeared and changed the trajectory of my life. Childhood trauma. Addiction and illness inside a family. A body that broke down. Infertility. Motherhood. Weight loss. Surgery. Spiritual experiences I still can’t neatly explain.
But this book isn’t a collection of wild stories for the sake of telling wild stories. Somewhere inside everything I survived, seven steps began appearing again and again. Eventually, I realized they weren’t simply explaining what had happened to me. They had become a roadmap for what comes next.
Part memoir. Part roadmap. Completely honest.
Stop Pretending You’re Fine isn’t asking you to fix yourself or become a shinier, more positive version of who you already are. It’s an invitation to look honestly at what you’ve survived, what you’ve learned to carry, what you’ve been pretending doesn’t hurt, and who you became because of it, so you can consciously choose who you become next.
Phoenix Medicine
The story became a roadmap.
What began as seven images during an experience in the Amazon eventually became the framework I would recognize in my own healing and in the people I worked with. These seven steps became Phoenix Medicine, a path through awareness, healing, rebirth, integration, and ultimately choosing how you want to live.
01 · Awareness
See what's there.
02 · Vibration
Notice what shifts.
03 · Healing Begins
Feel what hurts.
04 · Emotional Shelter
Create inner safety.
05 · Rebirth
Choose who's next.
06 · Integration
Live it differently.
07 · Initiation
Become who you chose.
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The book is only the beginning.
Stop Pretending You’re Fine started as a book, but the conversation became much bigger than the pages. Today it is growing into a personal growth program, a larger movement, and Stop Pretending You’re Fine with Krista Rooney, a nationally distributed television talk show filmed in Hollywood.
Different platforms. Same mission. To stop pretending, tell the truth, heal what hurts, choose who we become next, and create the kind of change that ripples through our families, our communities, and eventually far beyond us.
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