Life Ain't Fair--Win Anyway! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798234061614)

Before Tijuana "TJ" Everhart knew how to swim, she was pushed into eight feet of water by a laughing crowd of kids. She clawed her way to the surface - gasping, terrified, furious - and grabbed the wall with both hands. She has been grabbing walls ever since.

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the shadow of a dangerous father and a mother whose love made her stay, TJ learned early that life does not negotiate. It does not soften its blows. What it does do is push.

In Life Ain't Fair - Win Anyway, Tijuana Everhart pushes back.

She opens the wound of her own story - the secret of her birth that shattered everything, the loss of her mother at barely twenty, the hospital room where she watched her husband's retirement on a computer screen and wept. She holds nothing back. Because the truth in its full, unguarded form is the only version worth telling.

But this is not simply a memoir. It is a manual - giving readers not just the story of how one woman refused to drown, but the tools to keep themselves afloat.

If Mel Robbins' Let Them taught you to release what other people think of you, this book will teach you to release something far heavier - what life itself has done to you.

For every person who has ever stood at the edge of something impossible and wondered if they had enough left - you do.

TJ Everhart is living proof.