Little girls don’t know they’re going to grow up to be women who wear so many hats. Daughter, sister, friend. Professional, mother, wife. Our hats can weigh us down, and our vocations can exhaust us. The roles we inhabit stretch us in so many directions that we sometimes fear we will break.
Sometimes we even forget who we are.
In The Hats We Wear, Elizabeth Trotter takes us back to the beginning, to the foundation of our faith and who we are as children of God and daughters of the King. She explores our intense emotional worlds and the work of embodied living, then leans into the three specific hats of marriage, motherhood, and homeschooling.
Join Elizabeth on this journey of reflection. Walk with her as she seeks God amidst the hats of female life. Sit with her in the mundane and the sacred. Wrestle with the practical and philosophical implications of living life as a woman of faith.
As you read, you’ll meet someone who frequently does things the hard way first, flailing around worrying and wasting time on unnecessary details. But in seeking the Lord and listening to the wise people in her life, she eventually finds a path forward.
I don't know how many times I paused and appreciated the authenticity of this book! I especially appreciated the way she writes about the push/pull experience of spiritual wrestling...and with so much honesty!!
Reading this was like sitting with a wise, safe and gentle friend, talking about the nitty-gritty of life as a woman. Her words seem so shaped with careful thought and filled with love.
I hope she will continue to write more books, articles, etc.! ❤️