STRENGTH BUILT HER.
BREAKING FREED HER.

Rashida Saunders, keynote speaker and trauma informed leadership voice, in a reflective portrait representing strength, vulnerability, and emotional resilience.

For those carrying pressure, responsibility, and visibility without losing themselves.

For the ones who know leadership is not about being unbreakable, but about being honest, steady, and human.

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WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS

This is an invitation to lay down the pressure to be unbreakable.

Permission to Break explores the tension between strength and vulnerability through the lens of a Black woman in law enforcement.

This book asks what happens when high functioning strength becomes isolation. When competence masks exhaustion. When silence protects, but also imprisons.

Book cover of “Permission to Break” by Rashida Saunders, featuring a Black female police officer in uniform.
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“Strength taught me how to survive. Softness taught me how to live.”

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THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF…

You’ve been the one people depend on.
The one who holds everything together.
The one who learned how to keep going, even when it cost you something.

This is for you if you’ve ever questioned what your strength has required of you, and wondered if there was another way to live.

THIS BOOK EXPLORES

• Emotional resilience
• High functioning depression
• Trauma informed leadership
• Public safety, accountability and community trust

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