Mandy Hale, known as “The Single Woman” after the takeoff of her blog and the success of her first book, which became a New York Times best-seller, is remarkably down-to-earth and in touch with her readers.
Her latest book is called You are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing and Becoming Whole.
“I went through a series of incredibly heartbreaking life challenges and through that process found myself very beaten down by life and in a place of darkness, hopelessness and depression,” Hale said of her battle with depression. “The story in the book is what got me to that place and about getting out of that place.
“I wanted to write about this in in an authentic, but hopefully positive and helpful, way and let people who are struggling with depression know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it really does get better—that’s not just a phrase that people use. And if I can come out on the other side of it then so can they.”
Hale says by going through the single life and life in general—heartbreak and loss and success and depression and anxiety and beauty and brokenness and all—she has learned that the journey to enough is never over.
“I think ‘you’re enough’ is a process,” she said. “You can wake up one day and feel like you are more than enough or feel like you are lacking. That is okay. You are the version of yourself that you are at that moment, and not letting the world or circumstances or social media or anything outside of yourself determine your worth. [Be] willing to accept whoever you are at this moment, whether you are the heartbroken one, the healed one, the whole one or somewhere in between. . . . You are supposed to be exactly where you are.”
In her book, Hale writes, “Keep fighting, Keep fighting. Keep fighting for your healing. Keep fighting for your wholeness. Keep fighting for your enoughness. And realize the fighter inside of you, who has refused to throw in the towel against all odds—anxiety, depression, loss, heartbreak, pain, disappointment, your past—man, is that person ever worth loving.”
Near the conclusion of her book, Hale talks about the suicide death of a friend and pleads to her readers that no one else should give up and no one else can leave, asking people to reach out if they need help and explains, “You are a semicolon; you are not a period.”
Hale, who lives in downtown Murfreesboro, started blogging 10 years ago for herself. When she noticed that few people were writing about being single in a positive way, she started using Twitter to shoot out positive tweets, messages and quotes. Her first book publisher discovered her on Twitter. She now has over 580,000 followers on Twitter and has written four books, beginning with the best seller The Single Woman: Life, Love and a Dash of Sass.
Find more information at mandyhale.com.
