Why Being Envious Is Taking Away Your Joy and How You Can Take It Back for Good.
A self-reflection guide for getting out of comparison and back into your own life.
THE MIRROR
DOESN’T LIE.
Envy has a way of making somebody else’s life feel more important than your own.
You notice what they have.
Where they are.
What came easily for them.
What you believe should have happened for you by now.
And somewhere inside all that looking outward, you stop noticing what is happening in your own life.
Honey, It Is You turns the mirror back around.
Not to shame you. Not to tell you that you should never feel jealous, envious, disappointed, or left behind. But to ask the harder question:
What is all of that attention costing you?
Because sometimes the person standing between you and your joy isn’t the person you’ve been watching.
Sometimes, honey, it is you.
TAKE YOUR
JOY BACK.
Honey, It Is You: Why Being Envious Is Taking Away Your Joy and How You Can Take It Back for Good — Expanded Edition is a direct, compassionate look at comparison, envy, resentment, and the quiet ways we can become distracted by somebody else’s life.
Through honest reflection, relatable observations, and space to examine your own patterns, Lesley D. Nurse invites readers to stop measuring their lives against what they see around them and start paying attention to what belongs to them.
This Expanded Edition goes deeper, creating room not only to read—but to stop, reflect, write, and recognize what may be sitting underneath comparison in the first place.
The goal isn’t to pretend you never feel envy again. It’s to stop letting envy run your life.
BOOK DETAILS
Expanded Print Edition, 2026
Paperback | Perfect Bound
5 × 8 inches
102 pages
Color interior
ISBN: 979-8-234-22992-2
Publisher: 7Seven Spark Publishing
Distribution: IngramSpark
Audiobook edition also available through major listening and library platforms.
THIS TIME,
LOOK AT YOU.
There is a difference between reading something that resonates and recognizing yourself inside it.
That is why this edition leaves room for reflection.
The prompts and journal pages are an invitation to stay with the uncomfortable thought a little longer. To notice what triggers comparison. To question what you believe somebody else’s life says about yours. And to write down what becomes visible when your attention finally comes home.
Because the mirror in this book was never there to show you somebody else.
It was always there for you.