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Out September 27Out now
The new book from Tonya Call

Soft Strength

Owning your voice without losing your heart.

For the woman who holds everything together and has quietly disappeared inside of it. This is not a book about becoming stronger. It's a book about stopping the self-abandonment that strength has been covering for.

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Out September 27Out now ★Soft Strength ★ Live on Lived Mastery with Keira Brinton ★10:00 AM PDT ★ I'm a Red Flag ★Say More podcast ★ Owning your voice without losing your heart ★Joan of Arc Publishing ★ Out September 27Out now ★Soft Strength ★ Live on Lived Mastery with Keira Brinton ★10:00 AM PDT ★ I'm a Red Flag ★Say More podcast ★ Owning your voice without losing your heart ★Joan of Arc Publishing ★
Soft Strength: Owning Your Voice Without Losing Your Heart, by Tonya Call
27
September · launch day
The new book

Softness isn't the opposite of strength.
It's where strength is born.

Tonya Call wrote Soft Strength from the middle of it — postpartum in her forties, mothering a newborn and two teenagers, sneaking off to the bath at the end of the day to find the woman she used to be.

What she found there wasn't a productivity problem. It was a body that had been overridden for years, and a voice that had learned to come out sharp because gentle never got heard. This book is the slow way back. Twelve chapters, and a set of questions soft enough to actually answer.

Publisher
Joan of Arc Publishing
Release
September 27, 2026
Formats
Hardcover · Paperback · eBook
Length
Introduction plus twelve chapters
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What's inside

The three things this book will ask of you

Twelve chapters, three threads that run through all of them, and a set of questions at the close of every one.

The olive tree

Olive trees survive centuries in rocky soil. But left untended, the branches overreach and the fruit stops coming. They don't need more strength — they need pruning. So do we. The pressing isn't punishment. It's purpose.

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The river

When you override yourself, the current speeds up. Breath shortens, shoulders tighten, the voice sharpens. Those rapids aren't a personality flaw. They're a nervous system that has been pushed too far.

02

The pause

Most of us wait until we're empty, not until we're tired. The work doesn't start in the hard moment. It starts in the walk you didn't take, and the ten minutes you swore you didn't have.

03
Start here

The Softening Questions

Every chapter closes with these. No pressure to answer perfectly, no right words. Just honesty. You only need one of them to stay with you today.

Question i
Where do you feel the breaking in your body right now?

What part of you feels heavy, overworked, or unseen?

Question ii
What have you been carrying that may not be yours to hold?

What would it feel like to set that down, just for today?

Question iii
What does your version of the bath look like?

The place or ritual that returns you to yourself — and how you make room for it this week.

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From the book

The world does not need you armored. It needs you alive.

"You do not have to harden to survive. The world does not need you armored. It needs you alive."

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Soft Strength

"Drowning is not devotion, and exhaustion is not evidence of worth."

Tonya Call
Soft Strength

"Rest is not a reward you have to earn. It is your birthright."

Tonya Call
Soft Strength

"Bitterness is brilliance that has been buried under duty."

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Soft Strength

"Motherhood is love made visible. But it is also labor made invisible."

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Soft Strength
Lived Mastery with Keira Brinton welcomes special guest Tonya Call
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Lived Mastery with Keira Brinton

Sunday, Sept 2710:00 AM PDT90 minutesZoom
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Live on September 27 Out now. Watch the replay.

Launch day — September 27. Soft Strength is out, and Tonya is live on Lived Mastery with Keira Brinton · 10:00 AM PDT · 90 minutes on Zoom · Free, limited seatsSoft Strength is out now. Tonya was live on Lived Mastery with Keira Brinton on launch day.

A live recorded talk show, filmed in front of a live virtual audience — unscripted, in real time, lived truth. Host Keira Brinton. Filmed at Sneaky Big Studios, Scottsdale.

“Softness was never the thing making you weak… it was your power all along.”

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Mother. Author. Goddess of Unity.

You were taught to be chosen.
I'm here to teach you to choose.

Tonya Call is a writer, emotional truth-teller, and devoted student of healing. With a voice that is both unflinchingly honest and deeply compassionate, she writes about fear-based attachment, self-abandonment, emotional safety, and the brave, everyday work of learning how to stay — with love, with truth, and with yourself.

Her work isn't about fixing who you are; it's about remembering who you've always been beneath the survival strategies. Through raw storytelling and hard-earned insight, Tonya invites readers to stop performing for love and start receiving it — gently, honestly, fully.

She is the proud mother of three amazing boys who continue to teach her what it means to love with patience, presence, and fierce tenderness. She shares her life with a partner who shows up with her in the mess and the magic, a steady, loving witness to this unfolding journey of growth and truth.

When she's not writing, Tonya is out hiking in the mountains, soaking up the sun, reading anything that moves her, chasing laughter with her kids, or falling a little more in love with her man and the life they're building together. She is the author of I'm a Red Flag and Soft Strength, and hosts the Say More podcast.

Mother of threeAuthorSay More hostHiker

“I don't just see you — I am you.”

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books · one voice
Also by Tonya

I'm a Red Flag

Her first book was about staying in love without disappearing. This one is about staying in your own life.

I'm a Red Flag: Healing the Parts of You That Say “You're Too Much to Love”, by Tonya Call
Hardcover · on sale now

I'm a Red Flag

Amazon2025Her first book

Healing the parts of you that say “you're too much to love.”

Her first book. A mirror for anyone who has ever pushed love away, mistook anxiety for chemistry, or made themselves small just to feel safe. If you've ever thought “maybe I'm just bad at love” — she wrote it for you.

Available now
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The podcast · coming soon

Say More

Conversations that don't stop at the polite part.

Coming soon. Long-form conversations for people who are tired of the polished version. Solo episodes, honest interviews, and the things women usually only say once the recording stops.

“I believe the right words at the right time can do something real in someone's real life.”

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Launch day
Sunday, September 27, 2026 · 10:00 AM PDT
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Joan of Arc Publishing, Meridian, ID
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