How to Walk into a Room

The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

De: Emily P. Freeman

Narrado por: Emily P. Freeman

New York Times Bestseller

If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we’re in is no longer a room where we belong?

What do you do when you start to feel a shift and must decide if it’s time to make a change? When it comes to navigating big decisions about when to stay and go, how can we know for sure when the time is right? Though we enter and exit many rooms over the course of our life—jobs, relationships, communities, life stages—knowing how and when it’s time to leave is a decision that rarely has a clear answer.

Podcast host, spiritual director, and bestselling author of The Next Right Thing, Emily P. Freeman offers guidance to help us recognize when it’s time to move on from situations that no longer fit, allowing us to find new spaces where we can flourish and grow.

How to Walk Into a Room helps us begin to uncover the silent, nuanced, and hidden arrows for anyone asking questions like: How do I know if it’s time to move on? What if I stay and nothing changes? What if I leave and everything falls apart?

Through thought-provoking questions, spiritual practices, and personal stories, How to Walk into a Room will help you to know and name the caution flags in your current spaces, discern the difference between true peace and discomfort avoidance, navigate endings even when there is no closure, find peace for when you feel ready but it isn’t time, and courage for when it’s time but you don’t feel ready.

For anyone standing in a threshold, here’s a book to help discern the how, when, and what now of walking out of rooms and into new ones with peace, confidence, and a whole heart.

©2024 Emily P. Freeman (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Life changing conversation

This is a much needed book for anyone who has ever faced transition and change (EVERYONE). The gentle conversational approach leads you through a process that has the ability to shift your perspective on the rooms of your life and the transitions between them.
As someone who has had more than the average moves and life changes, I am so grateful for this new framework to walk into, out of, and between rooms with a new perspective.
Most recommended book on my list.

Practical steps

Emily’s voice giving practical, attainable steps to a deep knowing, no matter the circumstances is a guide for all, no matter your path.

Author's sincere desire to encourage!

I love this and all books by Emily P. Freeman. Her words and voice soothe and encourage every time!

vulnerable wisdom

Emily's voice is both literally calming and important, and in a perspective-widening way, her worldview voice is also much needed.

Honest and Excellent

I greatly enjoyed this book, part careful advice & observation, and part memoir. I will listen to it again, start to finish. It’s a gem. Truly lovely. Although I’m not Christian, I am spiritual and very grateful I gave this book a try.

Point and call

Emily does it again. In sharing her own experience she encourages us to point and call in rooms we are in, choices we make, and emotions we feel. By first recognizing our own beloved mind, body, and soul in the present we can do our best work as a person to love God, others, and ourselves with generous orthodoxy.

So good!

Emily put into words and made sense of what I could not. Thank you Emily!

Emily is a treasure

This book is beautifully written and I loved it. With warmth and much depth, Emily walks us through the journey of entering and leaving the rooms of our lives with so much thought and relevance. As she introduces different insights and tools about how to think about staying and leaving, she invites us into her own coming and goings in such a kind and gentle way. We honor her journey and even if our rooms look different, we are inspired to think, to use the tools, and to grow. Thank you for this book. You are a treasure.

Excellent!!

Emily gives great xamples of thoughtful and simple ways to navigate the complex nuances and transitions we all face in our lives. There is great depth in this book, and I highly recommend it to anyone facing challenging seasons, present or past.

Discerning your path? This book is for you

Beautiful work that holds space for all of us and reminds us to focus on our body, heart, and mind when knowing what God’s will is for our lives.