First Place · Chanticleer International Book Awards · Mind & Spirit
The book she wrote
because she couldn’t find it
when she needed it most.
Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability is where the work began. Before the practice. Before the frameworks. When there was nothing left but the truth and the decision about what to do with it.
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Most women spend a lifetime building armor.
This book is about what’s underneath it.
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from spending decades being strong. From managing the perception and keeping the structure intact so everyone else can rely on it. From treating your own vulnerability as a liability instead of what it actually is: the most precise instrument you have.
Living Without Skin is the book Tammy wrote after she stopped pretending — after the collapse and the rebuild, after years of doing everything right by external measure while the distance between who she was and how she was living quietly widened.
It’s an honest account of what it actually costs to perform a version of yourself you’ve outgrown, told with Southern plainspokenness, dry humor, and the specific authority that comes from having paid for every insight with your own life.
It begins with a child learning to disappear into the version of herself other people preferred. It ends with a woman who stopped.
What happens in between is the part most women recognize.
If you’ve ever felt like you were living slightly to the left of yourself, this book was written for you.
For the woman who already knows. Who has known for longer than she’d like to admit. Who has been managing the gap between her insides and her outsides so competently that most days she forgets it’s a gap and starts to think it’s just her life.
The book names what that costs and where it comes from. Then it names what becomes possible when a woman stops treating her own truth as something to be managed and starts treating it as something to be trusted.
Readers describe it as the book that said the thing nobody had said yet. The one they read twice. The one they handed to someone they loved without annotation because the words were already doing the work.
What readers say
4.9 out of 5 on Amazon
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Tammy Green shows us how to take a true, real and honest look at life and how it is formed and resurrected over and over.
Karen M. · Paperback -
I giggled, had a few tears, and recognized some of myself in places.
Billie · Paperback -
I loved her unfiltered honesty. Vulnerability as a fierce cape is an interesting perspective.
B. Warner · Hardcover -
It’s funny. It’s hard. It’s honest.
Cconlee13 · Kindle
First place.
Chanticleer International Book Awards.
Mind & Spirit · Spirituality and Enlightenment
The Chanticleer International Book Awards are competitive, peer-evaluated, and internationally recognized. First place in the Mind and Spirit category isn’t a participation distinction. It means the work was assessed against others and ranked above them.
The book earned it. So did the life it came from.
The book names it.
The realignment closes it.
Living Without Skin was where Tammy first put language to what women now bring to her in private. The gap between the life you built and the life you’re actually living. What performing costs, and the specific kind of courage it takes to stop.
If the book resonates, the advisory work goes further. It takes what the book names and makes it specific to your situation, your structure, your life. Privately and precisely, without dismantling what you’ve built.
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Available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover and Kindle. It’s the kind of book that gets read twice.
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