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Embrace the Hit: A memoir of faith, resilience, and grace in life's hardest hits.
Paperback
Biographies GeneralChristian Living
Publisher: Cnic Ventures
Published: Oct 6 2025
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Life rarely goes as planned. Setbacks, heartbreak, and unexpected turns can feel like crushing blows - yet often, in those very moments, God shapes us into who He knows we can become.
A stranger in a WeWork kitchen once told Courtney Spencer she had the perfect body type for Skeleton. She didn't even know what the sport was. Days later, she Googled it: an Olympic event where athletes race face-first down a sheet of ice at 80+ miles an hour, with no brakes. She signed up for a combine anyway.
She finished dead last.
Embrace the Hit follows what happened next - not a straight line to glory, but a slow, honest reckoning with failure, fear, and the phrase her coach repeated on every run: embrace the hit. Don't brace. Don't fight the wall. Relax into the impact, and let it carry you somewhere better than where you were aiming.
It's a lesson Courtney was learning on the ice long before she understood it was also a lesson about grace. Around the same time, while training in Park City and Lake Placid, she encountered the Book of Mormon for the first time - and the two journeys became impossible to separate. This is a memoir about what it actually feels like to keep searching for the right place to land - baptized as an infant in the Lutheran church, then Baptist during her years at Baylor, then a non-denominational church in New York City - before finally finding a spiritual home as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's also about failing publicly and showing up anyway, and discovering that the hits life sends aren't obstacles to your story - they're the shape of it.
Written for anyone bracing against something right now - a setback, a diagnosis, a failure, a fear - Embrace the Hit is an invitation to stop fighting the wall and trust that God is still building something, even at 80 miles an hour.
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