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?
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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. You may be 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?
How to Walk into A Room will help you:
- 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
- Find 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.
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Sharon McMahon
Creator of Sharon Says So
If you've ever wondered what to do next, if you should stay or go, or how to walk in your purpose, How to Walk into a Room is for you.
This book felt like a balm to a battered soul.
Kate Bowler
New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
Emily P. Freeman offers gentle and practical wisdom for all those of us who need a framework to know when to stay and when to go. This book is a balm to the soul and a kick in the pants from the kindest person you need to read.
Kendra Adachi
author of the New York Times bestsellers The Lazy Genius Kitchen and The Lazy Genius Way
What a relief that How to Walk into a Room exists. Emily P. Freeman is thoughtful, wise, and the perfect teacher for this oft-ignored, deeply essential life skill of navigating life’s unknowns. This is a book you’ll read again and again.
Dr. Meg Arroll
author of Tiny Traumas
Endings can be challenging to navigate—indeed, this is one of the most frequent difficulties I see in my psychology practice. Emily P. Freeman offers a compassionate roadmap to managing these internal tensions in order to live a more meaningful and value-aligned life.
Shannan Martin
author of Start with Hello and The Ministry of Ordinary Places
Generous and vulnerable, How to Walk into a Room seals Freeman’s fate as one of the great spiritual guides of our time.
James Bryan Smith
author of The Good and Beautiful God
Our world is starved for wisdom—which is the knowledge of how to live well. The writing is classic Emily P. Freeman: elegant, gentle, thoughtful and honest. I am so grateful for this book.
Kat Armas
author of Abuelita Faith and host of The Protagonistas podcast
This is a book I wish I had sooner and Emily P. Freeman is the spiritual director we’ve all needed. With tenderness, care, and vulnerability, Emily P. Freeman takes us by the hand and leads us on a journey of self-exploration for our own flourishing and as a consequence, the flourishing of those around us.
Sarah Bessey
New York Times bestseller A Rhythm of Prayer
In a time when so many of us have lost old pathways of belonging, Emily meets us in the middle of our anxiety and uncertainty with practical wisdom, gentle companionship, and good questions. If you are in a season of evolution, this book is so much more than a framework for discernment, it is a map for loving God, loving ourselves, and loving our world right in the midst of our uncharted places.
Ashlee Eiland
Bible teacher, author of HUMAN(KIND) and Say Good
Having read her offering while navigating huge transitions of my own, the tears I cried while reading this book left me with the assurance that she gets it. With refreshing vulnerability and magnetic depth, Emily gives us an evergreen guide for life’s myriad transitions. More importantly, I finished the final paragraphs knowing that God sees me. This is undoubtedly a book to companion you for years to come.
Meet Emily.
Emily P. Freeman is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away. As a spiritual director, podcast host of The Next Right Thing, and creator of The Soul Minimalist on Substack, hers has become a trustworthy voice of wisdom and direction for people as they make decisions in faith, work, and life. Emily holds a master’s degree in Christian Spiritual Formation and Leadership from Friends University where she serves as a residency lecturer.
She and her husband, John, live in North Carolina where they are enjoying a newly empty nest with their three young adult children away at college.