Breathing Room: One Man's Path from Performance to Presence

What happens when the life you've built becomes too small to contain who you really are? In Breathing Room: One Man's Path from Performance to Presence, Tedd C. Simmons delivers a deeply honest and beautifully written memoir about shedding the roles, masks, and expectations that keep us from living authentically. After decades as a minister and corporate executive, Tedd's carefully curated world began to collapse. A near-fatal health crisis became the reckoning he could no longer avoid. What followed was a journey through identity, loss, faith, and the rediscovery of breath itself. Through luminous prose and piercing self-awareness, Tedd explores what it means to move from performance to presence, from hiding behind achievement to inhabiting one's truth. Readers who loved Untamed by Glennon Doyle, Falling Upward by Richard Rohr, or The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs will find in these pages both resonance and release. This is a memoir for anyone who has ever questioned who they're "supposed" to be and for those who are finally ready to become who they already are.