Grit & Grace: Loving Them Without Losing You

By Dr. Schalette Poteat-Quince

Strength is often praised.

Silence is often mistaken for faithfulness.

And love is too often confused with endurance.

GRIT & GRACE: Loving Them Without Losing You is a tender, unflinching exploration of what happens when being "strong" slowly becomes self-erasure. Through the life of Maiya-a woman admired for her dependability, faith, and resilience-this story traces the quiet cost of loving without boundaries and the courage it takes to reclaim one's voice.

As Maiya navigates relationships, marriage, motherhood, and faith, she learns to distinguish between endurance that shapes her and endurance that consumes her. This is not a guidebook or a manifesto, but a witness to loving without anesthesia, to grace that does not require disappearance, and to the radical truth that guarding your heart is not a failure of love but an act of faith.

Written for anyone who has ever been praised for being strong while quietly breaking, GRIT & GRACE invites readers to believe that it is possible to love deeply-without losing yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMP54WCX
• ISBN13: 9798247386728
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"