The Image I Choose (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. WHAT IF THE PERSON YOU BECAME WAS SHAPED BEFORE YOU EVER HAD THE CHANCE TO CHOOSE?For more than thirty years, Dr. Alfred E. Smith lived inside an identity built around ministry, leadership, responsibility, and the expectations of others. He was respected, accomplished, educated, and deeply committed to the role he had been given.Then the role disappeared-and the internal picture holding his life together began to collapse.The Image I Choose is an intimate and deeply honest memoir about losing an inherited identity, confronting the beliefs that shaped it, and rebuilding a life from the inside out.After leaving the pastorate and moving to North Carolina, Dr. Smith expected a new chapter of leadership to begin. Instead, he entered a wilderness of isolation, grief, spiritual uncertainty, and profound questions about who he was without the title, platform, community, and calling that had defined him for decades.WHEN A ROLE BECOMES YOUR IDENTITY, WHO ARE YOU WHEN THE ROLE IS GONE?Through powerful personal stories, Dr. Smith examines how parents, religious communities, family systems, cultural expectations, failures, and positions of responsibility can quietly install an internal image of who we are supposed to be.Over time, that image can become so familiar that we mistake it for our true identity.This is not an attack on faith, family, ministry, or the church. It is a compassionate examination of what happens when love, fear, obligation, purpose, and identity become intertwined-and what it takes to separate them without rejecting everything that came before.INSIDE THIS BOOK, YOU WILL EXPLORE: How authoritative voices and emotionally charged experiences shape self-imageWhy approval, performance, and responsibility can replace authentic identityHow survival skills can be mistaken for personality or purposeWhat happens when a career, calling, relationship, or leadership role endsHow grief and unexpected emotional responses can reveal unfinished inner workWhy questioning an inherited identity is not failure, betrayal, or rebellionHow to distinguish the person you truly are from the image you were taught to carryHow the S.E.L.F. I.M.A.G.E. Method(TM) can support the process of rebuilding from withinA MEMOIR OF LOSS, AWAKENING, AND RECLAIMING THE SELFWritten with vulnerability, wisdom, and compassion, this book speaks to anyone who has outgrown an identity that once gave their life structure and meaning.It is for former leaders, pastors, professionals, caregivers, high achievers, adult children carrying family expectations, and spiritually formed people who no longer fit comfortably inside the answers they were given.It is also for anyone standing at the edge of a new chapter and asking: Who am I when I am no longer performing the role everyone recognizes?With personal reflection prompts throughout, The Image I Choose invites readers to identify the image they inherited, understand where it came from, and begin forming an identity that is chosen rather than assigned, authentic rather than performed, and true rather than merely familiar.YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DESTROY YOUR PAST TO RECLAIM YOUR FUTURE.Your story does not end when an old identity falls apart.That may be the moment your real life finally begins. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798181365810
- Título
- The Image I Choose (Paperback)
- Autor
- Dr Alfred E. Smith
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798181365810
WHAT IF THE PERSON YOU BECAME WAS SHAPED BEFORE YOU EVER HAD THE CHANCE TO CHOOSE?
For more than thirty years, Dr. Alfred E. Smith lived inside an identity built around ministry, leadership, responsibility, and the expectations of others. He was respected, accomplished, educated, and deeply committed to the role he had been given.
Then the role disappeared—and the internal picture holding his life together began to collapse.
The Image I Choose is an intimate and deeply honest memoir about losing an inherited identity, confronting the beliefs that shaped it, and rebuilding a life from the inside out.
After leaving the pastorate and moving to North Carolina, Dr. Smith expected a new chapter of leadership to begin. Instead, he entered a wilderness of isolation, grief, spiritual uncertainty, and profound questions about who he was without the title, platform, community, and calling that had defined him for decades.
WHEN A ROLE BECOMES YOUR IDENTITY, WHO ARE YOU WHEN THE ROLE IS GONE?
Through powerful personal stories, Dr. Smith examines how parents, religious communities, family systems, cultural expectations, failures, and positions of responsibility can quietly install an internal image of who we are supposed to be.
Over time, that image can become so familiar that we mistake it for our true identity.
This is not an attack on faith, family, ministry, or the church. It is a compassionate examination of what happens when love, fear, obligation, purpose, and identity become intertwined—and what it takes to separate them without rejecting everything that came before.
INSIDE THIS BOOK, YOU WILL EXPLORE:
- How authoritative voices and emotionally charged experiences shape self-image
- Why approval, performance, and responsibility can replace authentic identity
- How survival skills can be mistaken for personality or purpose
- What happens when a career, calling, relationship, or leadership role ends
- How grief and unexpected emotional responses can reveal unfinished inner work
- Why questioning an inherited identity is not failure, betrayal, or rebellion
- How to distinguish the person you truly are from the image you were taught to carry
- How the S.E.L.F. I.M.A.G.E. Method™ can support the process of rebuilding from within
A MEMOIR OF LOSS, AWAKENING, AND RECLAIMING THE SELF
Written with vulnerability, wisdom, and compassion, this book speaks to anyone who has outgrown an identity that once gave their life structure and meaning.
It is for former leaders, pastors, professionals, caregivers, high achievers, adult children carrying family expectations, and spiritually formed people who no longer fit comfortably inside the answers they were given.
It is also for anyone standing at the edge of a new chapter and asking:
Who am I when I am no longer performing the role everyone recognizes?
With personal reflection prompts throughout, The Image I Choose invites readers to identify the image they inherited, understand where it came from, and begin forming an identity that is chosen rather than assigned, authentic rather than performed, and true rather than merely familiar.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DESTROY YOUR PAST TO RECLAIM YOUR FUTURE.
Your story does not end when an old identity falls apart.
That may be the moment your real life finally begins.
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