Author Jeff Harris introduces a practical three-stage framework—Death, Desert, Discovery for navigating change, uncertainty, and new beginnings.
You can have a career, a family, accomplishments, and a life that looks successful from the outside—and still wake up one day realizing something isn’t working anymore.
That is the problem at the heart of STUCK: Where Transformation Begins, a new book by author, educator, speaker, and longtime pastor Jeff Harris.
STUCK begins with a deceptively simple question:
Why do intelligent, capable people sometimes remain trapped in lives, patterns, relationships, careers, or identities they know are no longer working?
Harris argues that the answer usually isn’t a lack of intelligence, ambition, or effort.
Sometimes moving forward requires something entirely different: letting go.
Drawing from psychology, history, personal experience, timeless wisdom, Scripture, and more than three decades of helping people navigate difficult seasons of life in ministry, Harris presents a three-stage framework for transformation:
Death — letting go of what can no longer go with you.
Desert — navigating the uncertain space between what was and what comes next.
Discovery — building a new life from the person you are becoming.
Rather than offering another formula for simply trying harder, STUCK explores the deeper issue of identity—how people understand themselves when familiar roles, expectations, relationships, careers, or dreams begin to change.
“Sometimes we choose the ending, and sometimes the ending chooses us,” Harris says. “Either way, there comes a moment when we have to decide whether we are going to spend our lives trying to recover what was—or begin discovering what could be.”
The book combines compelling stories with practical application. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions designed to help readers identify where they may be stuck and translate the book’s principles into concrete changes in everyday life.
Although Harris draws from more than three decades in ministry, STUCK addresses a universal human experience: the difficult transition from the life we knew to the life we have not yet discovered.
It is written for anyone facing—or sensing—the need for change: career transitions, retirement, loss, relationship changes, personal setbacks, leadership challenges, unexpected endings, or simply the realization that the life that once worked no longer does.
Harris also believes the principles extend beyond individuals.
Businesses, schools, churches, teams, and organizations can become stuck in outdated identities and ways of operating just as people can. Transformation begins when they are willing to identify what needs to end before something new can begin.
Early readers have described STUCK as “a deeply hopeful roadmap for anyone ready to move beyond the barriers holding them back” and “a book that doesn’t simply inspire; it equips readers to experience real transformation.”
At its core, STUCK offers a hopeful proposition:
Being stuck may not mean your story is over. It may mean your transformation is beginning.
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About Jeff Harris
Jeff Harris is an author, educator, speaker, and pastor whose work focuses on transformation, identity, leadership, and navigating change. After more than three decades in ministry, Harris entered public education as a history teacher and coach, giving him a unique perspective on reinvention and starting again. His writing and speaking combine personal experience, history, psychology, practical wisdom, and faith to help individuals and organizations move from where they are toward what comes next.
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