The Book Journey
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What’s Actually Inside the Book
Eleven days until launch. A real look inside the book — three parts, fifteen chapters, and the story I don’t tell often. From pre-conception to perimenopause.
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What It Actually Took to Get the Words Right
I’ve shown you the cover. I’ve told you where the book came from. But there’s a part of this process nobody ever sees — the part I’m honestly most proud of. Not the writing. The re-writing. The checking. The slow, unglamorous work of making sure every single thing in this book is actually true. More…
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The Book Journey: Where We’re At (and the Story Behind the Cover)
The cover came to me on the floor. I was lying on the thin mattress in my kids’ room, the way I do most nights — because I bring all three to bed at the same time, every time. The baby was still next to me. The room had finally gone quiet. And in that…
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“I wrote a book. Here’s why.”
Daniëlle van der Leest on why she wrote Strength Through the Messy & Beyond — the personal story behind the book, from years of coaching women and living through three pregnancies herself.