Jinger Duggar Vuolo is pictured.Photo:Jinger Vuolo/Instagram
Jinger Vuolo/Instagram
“I’m going to just put all that aside and say, no, I want to do what I feel called to do and that’s to speak truth,” she continues. “So let me just put on my blinders and focus on that and share my story, and then whatever the outcome is, I know I’ve done what I’m supposed to do.”
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The Duggar famliy is pictured.Tlc/Kobal/Shutterstock
Tlc/Kobal/Shutterstock
“That was something that was freeing for me because … the more that I’m thinking clearly through the ‘why’ behind I want to speak truth, I need to stand up for the vulnerable,” she adds. “My people-pleasing before would never have allowed me to do that. I would’ve been silent.”
Jinger’s latest book,People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations, out Jan. 14, sees her opening up about how her struggles with pleasing others was ultimately to her detriment.
The cover art for Jinger Duggar Vuolo’s new book People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations is pictured.Amazon
Amazon
Though she does share how she navigated her people-pleasing issues and reveals the solution to the matter in the book (and spoiler: the answermaysurprise you), the19 Kids and Countingalum knows she’s still a work in progress.
“I think once I got through writingBecoming Free Indeed, I started to see that there was a change in my heart. There was a huge change from that serious craving and desperation,” she says.
“I will say I’m not perfect. I haven’t arrived, I don’t have all the answers, but [I’m] just sharing along my journey and how I’ve seen steps to just be able to think differently,” she adds. “I think it all starts in our thoughts.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectationscomes out on Jan. 14 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.
source: people.com
