Take What You Need, Jen Crow
Take What You Need, Jen Crow
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Take What You Need
Life Lessons after Losing Everything

Author: Jen Crow

Narrator: Tegan Ashton Cohan

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2022

Synopsis

Jen Crow's transformation was triggered, quite literally, by a bolt of lightning. That jolt, which destroyed her home in a subsequent fire, forced her to consider what she really needed as she looked to rebuild her life.

In Take What You Need, Crow opens new perspectives for all of us looking to understand our past, our unexpected suffering, our failures, so we too can begin charting a course forward—one drawn from resilience and hope. We see with the immediacy of someone who nearly lost it all that our possessions won't carry us. Our responses to the regrets, losses, separations, addictions, and unexpected twists and turns of our lives are shaped by the spiritual values that sustain us and the people who support us.

Crow invites us to explore the expected and unexpected turns our lives can take—and all the ways we can pay attention to what we truly need to survive the painful moments and live lives of meaning. Survival guide, spiritual companion, and a light in the dark, Take What You Need offers hope, humor, and real-life spiritual tools to meet the hardest moments of our lives.

About Jen Crow

Jen Crow serves as Senior Minister at the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis. She is the founder of Wellspring, a Unitarian Universalist program of spiritual deepening used across the country. Her commitment to recovery, spirituality, transformative love, and authenticity is at the center of her life and work. She lives with her wife and two amazing kids in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Reviews

Goodreads review by April on March 25, 2022

Great read! Almost instantly I found myself in the pages of this book. What a testament to the human spirit that our experiences add up, good and bad, to give us just what we need when life gets hard (and boy can it get hard!!) You certainly don't need to have a house fire to relate to the tears and......more

Goodreads review by Sara on April 13, 2023

A powerful memoir about life after a house fire and about alcoholism and growing up with a parent with mental illness. Written by a UU minister.......more

Goodreads review by Darian on September 15, 2023

As someone who has experienced a house fire, this book was EXTREMELY helpful. I was literally captivated at the first page. Her story is inspiring as she suffers from alcoholism and explains her steps to recovery as well. Jen Crow has really calmed my soul. I’ve realized that I should be thinking of......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on May 11, 2022

Jen Crow's book, Take What You Need, is wise, engaging, and full of surprises. A bolt of lightening in the middle of the night leaves her and her family rushing into the dark rain with barely time to grab shoes and each other. As she begins to try to put her and her family's world back together, the......more

Goodreads review by Winter on March 31, 2022

This sweet, tender book is a love letter to community, to hope, and to a more nuanced approach to falling on your knees. The story moves back and forth between a current tragedy, the loss of everything (but not the family) to a fire, and from Crow's youth, as she tried to fit into a family unready t......more

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