Jinger Duggar Has Written Another Book — What to Expect From ‘People Pleaser’
Jinger Duggar Vuolo has written another book. The Counting On alum recently announced that her second solo book will be published in January 2025.
The book is titled People Pleaser: Breaking Free From the Burden of Imaginary Expectations. It’s all about Jinger’s efforts to develop her own sense of identity and self-worth and free herself from the need for approval from others.
Jinger Duggar confesses that she’s a ‘people pleaser’
“My name is Jinger, and I have a confession to make,” Jinger said in a video announcing her new book that she shared on Instagram. “I am a people pleaser.”
In People Pleaser, Jinger will open up about “her personal journey of constantly seeking approval from others and how she found her true identity,” according to publisher Thomas Nelson.
“From childhood to early adulthood, Jinger Duggar Vuolo followed the expectations of others,” the description reads. She never took “the time to discover who she truly was. It wasn’t until she asked herself the question, ‘Who am I?’ that she realized she was a people pleaser. This realization led her on a journey of self-discovery and ultimately, to rely on God for her approval and sense of self-worth.”
The ‘Counting On’ alum’s book is more than a memoir
Jinger’s second solo book, after 2023’s Becoming Free Indeed, is more than her personal story of overcoming her people-pleasing ways. It’s also a guide for others who struggle with the same issue.
People Pleaser will help readers “discover the beauty of community and how we were made to enjoy others.” It will also guide them as they “identify sin and how it can hinder your ability to be in community with one another, diagnose yourself with ruthless honesty but without judgment, and understand who you are in God’s eyes.”
In an interview with People, Jinger shared that her people-pleasing tendencies emerged when she was a teenager.
“I thought like, ‘Oh, I’m too fat.’ Even though I wasn’t,” she says. “I was afraid of eating too much because I was like, ‘Oh no, my friends aren’t going to like me because they’re skinner than me.’ Thankfully, I had awesome people who came around me and helped me out of that struggle of just struggling with an eating disorder. That’s where I saw it first showed up, and it just kind of continued,” she said.
Jinger was eventually able to address her issues with food. But the desire to please others first didn’t go away. Even when she was preparing to publish Becoming Free Indeed, she worried about “backlash” because she spoke critically of the religious traditions in which she was raised. People Pleaser is “definitely” an extension of the earlier book.
Her goal? To show people that they can “come to a place where we can love people from a place of not trying to gain their acceptance or approval, but just to love them for who they are and be true to who you are and not to waver and try to become a clone of everybody around you.”
People Pleaser is available to pre-order now. It’s scheduled for release on Jan. 14, 2025.
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