I learned how to endure before I learned how to choose.For years, waiting felt like wisdom.Endurance felt like strength.And silence felt like maturity.In I Stopped Waiting, Brionna Jenkins shares a grounded, intimate memoir about learning the difference between surviving and living. From early emotional conditioning to motherhood, courtrooms, and the quiet unraveling that comes when responsibility is carried alone for too long, this book traces the moments that shaped a woman who looked strong on the outside but was learning-slowly-how to be calm on the inside.Motherhood changed the stakes.Scrutiny demanded proof.And endurance stopped being sustainable.What follows is not a story of collapse, but of clarity.With honesty and restraint, Jenkins reflects on love before discernment, strength without balance, and faith that didn't arrive as rescue but as refinement. Through personal reflection and letters written to her children and herself, she explores what it means to stop waiting for permission and start building a life rooted in peace, boundaries, and responsibility.This book is for women who: Were praised for being strong but never asked what it cost themLearned endurance before emotional safetyAre navigating motherhood, accountability, and faith with intentionAre ready to stop waiting and start choosingI Stopped Waiting isn't about becoming unbreakable.It's about becoming awake.