Under the Armor: The Courage to Surrender: A Guidebook for Women Ready to Heal, Let Go, and Reclaim Their True Self

What if the strength that once protected you is now the barrier between you and the life you crave?

You’ve been the strong one for as long as you can remember; holding it all together, staying in control, surviving what others didn’t even see. But something inside is stirring: a quiet knowing, a longing for softness, wholeness, and the truth of who you really are.

In Under the Armor: The Courage to Surrender, author and mentor Candice Knight shares a vulnerable, wisdom-filled journey of letting go, of roles, identities, and relationships that no longer aligned. After a 20-year teaching career, the end of a tumultuous marriage, and years of exhaustion, she made a radical decision: to stop performing strength and start living in truth.

Part memoir, part soul-led guidebook, this book isn’t here to fix you, it’s here to walk beside you as you remember what you already know. Through candid storytelling and soul-stirring reflections, you’ll be invited to:

• Release perfectionism and pressure so you can breathe again • Reclaim your identity beyond divorce, burnout, or motherhood • Surrender control while standing in your power • Heal past wounds and open your heart to what’s next • Begin again... anchored, clear, and unapologetically whole

“I thought the armor was my strength, until I realized it was keeping me from love, from softness, from myself.”

If you’re standing in the messy, beautiful in-between, no longer who you were, not yet who you’re becoming, Under the Armor is your companion.

Buy now and begin your journey back to your most courageous, soft, soul-led self.

© 2025 Independent (Audiobook): 9781069377227

Release date

Audiobook: 23 September 2025