• The Garden

  • A Spiritual Fable About Ways to Overcome Fear, Anxiety, and Stress
  • By: Jon Gordon
  • Narrated by: Jon Gordon
  • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (256 ratings)

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By: Jon Gordon
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From eight-time best-selling author Jon Gordon comes a spiritual fable about the power of faith, hope, and love.

Meet Jay and Kay. They’re twins, and like many teenagers their age, they’re dealing with stress and anxiety. One day, on their way to school, they have a nice conversation with their old family friend and youth soccer coach Mr. Erwin, who shows them a special garden he created in his backyard.

The garden serves as both a place and a metaphor for Mr. Erwin to share a powerful paradigm and practical strategies to help the twins overcome their fear, stress, and anxiety.

The Garden is an enlightening and encouraging spiritual fable that reveals the 5 "D"s that can sabotage us and a proven plan to help us overcome and win the battle in our mind. Rooted in Jon Gordon’s faith tradition, this fable is a different kind of book than his previous business fables. However, in his familiar trademark style, he takes a complex subject and simplifies it to help people take action and improve their lives.

Everyone will struggle with fear, anxiety, or stress at some point in their lives, and everyone will have to overcome these challenges to create the life they were meant to live. Given that there are many contributing factors that influence how we think and feel, Jon wrote this book to share how the power of love, encouragement, truth, faith, and belief can be part of the solution.

Having worked with countless leaders, companies, sports teams, professional athletes, and high school students, Jon Gordon infuses this life-changing story with thought-provoking ideas, practical strategies, and a framework to overcome fear with faith.

Whether you are dealing with fear, stress, and anxiety yourself, have a family member who struggles, or are a mental health expert who works with clients, if any of the ideas in this book can be useful to you or the people you love and care about, then it’s worth a walk through The Garden with Jay, Kay, and Mr. Erwin to discover ways to persevere through life with the power of faith, hope, and love.

©2020 Jon Gordon (P)2020 Jon Gordon

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Wonderful

I loved this book ! it brought me back to what matters and kept things simple but made a huge point in my perspective !

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AMAZING

I want everyone I know to read or listen to this book! 🔥💛😊 it is life changing and it breaks down the struggles of life and how to over come them in the most amazing and simple way to understand! It helped remind me of gods love and our ability to trust and have faith in him. But remember battle has been won, yet the enemy will still come. So we need to be prepared! Love this book! 🙌🏽🔥🙌🏽🔥🙌🏽

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What a Beautiful easy story

I have teens at home & each of them are so different, this book is so nicely and easy to read and to listen, that I’m planning to give one to each of them. We are all created in our Lord’s image and when you are a teen is esencial to have guide t remind you of your identity and this book is just that. Lovely!

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Must Listen

This book is so full of truth and love you’ll want and need to listen to it again and again.

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Needed to hear

Such a great reminder and perspective on our thoughts and the battle in life. This book reminded me of how much God loves me and is for me.

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Always enjoy Jon Gordon's books

I have just about every book written by Jon Gordon and actually bought many copies of this one to share with friends. This spiritual book is one of my favorites! It's a quick book with some of life's greatest lessons.

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Excellent Book

I like that this book was a little more faith based. Lots of takeaways. Jon Gordon never disappoints

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Truth Faith Love! God is Good…and all the time!

I love how he illustrated the Garden and honestly it related to my life so much! I have twins, a boy and a girl! It was like listening to my children’s lives! Thank you for this story!

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right on the muscle

Dream big is right on the muscle. Not bragging but very high achiever. Everything changed in my mind in 2017. Due to a head injury, I wasn't the same. negative, and self doubt crept in. took me 4 years to realize, I wasn't operating with the same mindset anymore. I left the door to my mind open. Thats when fear entered. I know was thinking "Im not the same anymore, fear of criticism had overtake me. Well after this book I diagnosed the problem implemented some of the principles and WOW I'M back!!!!!!

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Awesome story of the Gospel of Jesus

Excellent powerful story of what life looks like when you allow Jesus to help you make right choices and the fruit it will provide

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