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The Power of the Moments That Shape Us
Paperback
Publisher Price: $28.99
ISBN13: 9781067514532
Publisher: Tanner Evan Bergsma
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.43 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
The Power of the Moments That Shape Us is not a book about having everything figured out. It is about what happens when life brings you to your lowest point, when you cannot see a way forward, and you decide to keep going anyway.
Before becoming an internationally recognized autistic Canadian youth advocate, speaker, author, and changemaker, Tanner Evan Bergsma experienced a very different reality. He faced homelessness, loss, rejection, mental health struggles, and moments when the future he lives today seemed impossible. There was no perfect plan and no guarantee that his life would change. There was simply a decision, repeated over and over again, to keep going.
That is the heart of a 2:17 AM Moment.
It is not necessarily a time on a clock. It represents those moments when the world is quiet, but your mind is not. When you wonder how everything went so wrong. When you are exhausted from pretending you are okay. When you look at your circumstances and have no idea how you are supposed to rebuild.
Everyone has their own 2:17 AM Moment. For some, it is homelessness. For others, it is grief, depression, heartbreak, trauma, failure, loneliness, rejection, or simply reaching a point where you no longer recognize the person staring back at you.
The circumstances are different, but the question is often the same: What do I do now?
Through the lessons that helped him rebuild his life, Bergsma challenges readers to reconsider what adversity means. He does not pretend that pain automatically makes people stronger. Sometimes life is unfair. Sometimes terrible things happen without explanation. But even when you cannot choose what happened to you, you can eventually decide what you are going to do with what remains.
This is not the story of someone who overcame adversity and never struggled again. It is the story of someone who learned how to keep moving through it.
Because rebuilding your life rarely happens through one extraordinary moment. It happens through small decisions. Getting up. Trying again. Asking for help. Taking the opportunity. Surviving another night. Choosing not to let yesterday make every decision about tomorrow.
Your darkest moment can convince you that your story is ending when you may only be standing between two chapters.
Your 2:17 AM Moment does not have to be the moment you give up.
It can become the moment you begin again.
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