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Endure First
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Riseagainstories
Published: Jun 12 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some storms don't announce themselves. They just arrive-and demand everything you have left.
Before Brenna could rise, she had to endure. The betrayal she didn't see coming. The love that unraveled slowly, then all at once. The version of herself she had to grieve before she could meet who she was becoming.
Endure First: Before You Rise is a raw, unflinching memoir about survival, self-discovery, and the quiet courage it takes to keep going when everything in you wants to stop. It is not a story about having it all together. It is a story about falling apart with intention-and finding, in the wreckage, the woman who was always there.
Brenna has lived through the kind of loss that reshapes you. The kind that strips away everything you thought defined you and leaves you standing in the rubble of a life you no longer recognize. But in that rubble, she found something unexpected-herself. Not the version of herself she had performed for others. Not the woman who smiled through the pain. The real one. The one who had been waiting all along.
Written with honesty, heart, and hard-won wisdom, this memoir speaks directly to every woman who has ever had to hold herself together before she could put herself back together. To every woman who wondered if the pain would ever end. To every woman who kept going anyway.
Your endurance is not weakness. It is the beginning of your rise.
Perfect for readers of:
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
- The Woman I Wanted to Be by Diane von Furstenberg
TAJ is the founder of RiseAgainStories LLC, a media and publishing company dedicated to stories of healing, resilience, and faith. Endure First: Before You Rise is her debut memoir.
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