Joanna Gaines Announces New Memoir ‘The Stories We Tell’

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Joanna Gaines isn’t just determined to renovate homes. The Fixer Upper star is also working on her soul — and maybe yours, too.

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And if not your soul, at least working on herself, as revealed in her new book, The Stories We Tell. Mostly, Gaines is sharing her story, saying that half of her life is behind her “and I’ve been longing for clarity about what I should carry forward and how I could hold this next chapter well.”

Gaines said she is feeling all sorts of ways about releasing the memoir.

“This book is an invitation to capture the full picture of your own life with renewed clarity,” she wrote in a press release “To see your story as greater than any past or future thing, but for all the beauty and joy it holds today. It’s an invitation to a kind of life where you know how to hold what you believe —about yourself and the quiet worlds behind the people you pass —with gracious and open hands.”

 “I was writing a story—my story.”

This, of course, is not the first time Gaines has taken pen to paper and produced something.

Her home design guide, Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, was released in 2018. Before that, she and husband Chip Gaines wrote a joint memoir entitled The Magnolia Story.

Joanna Gaines, 44, has also written two children’s books, We Are the Gardeners and The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be. The Stories We Tell is available for preorder here.

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