Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

Instead of aiming for perfection, LIVE A LIFE OF MEANING AND CONNECTION.

A few years ago, my body and spirit were ill, and I was alone and tired. I was burnt out from being busy and bored of being exhausted. Furthermore, it seems like almost everyone I spoke with was in a similar situation—desiring depth, purpose, and connection yet content to be busy.

As a wife, mother, sister, friend, neighbour, and writer, I am well acquainted with that sense of contentment. But in the past several years, I've discovered a style of living that is characterised by play, relaxation, elegance, and love. It's also altering everything.

An invitation to embark on this life-changing adventure is extended by Present Over Perfect. Together, we will travel this journey—a one that leads away from desperate pushing and proving and towards your true self, the person you were meant to be long before you started establishing your value.

This collection of articles, written in Shauna's warm and genuine manner, focuses on the most significant life transformation—leaving behind activity and frenetic living and finding the person you were meant to be—that has happened to her and maybe to you as well. Present Over Perfect is a helping hand that will release you from the never-ending demands to keep up a tiresome façade of perfection while performing more quickly, exerting more effort, and producing more.

In addition to providing an engaging vision for a whole new way of living that is centred on prayer, grace, rest, quiet, simplicity, and connection with the people that mean most in our lives, Shauna also provides an honest account of what inspired her to set out on this path.

You are welcome to reflect on your own life and what it may look like to let go of the need to be flawless and start the practise of being present, even in the midst of life's chaos and everyday routine, on these pages.