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Shilpa Goel
Author of Trusting God • Spiritual Writer • shilpagoel.com
There is a version of you that is utterly exhausted. Not from laziness. From trying too hard. From carrying things that were never yours to carry in the first place.
You know the feeling. You have a problem and you throw everything at it. You make calls. You overthink. You pray and then take the answer into your own hands. You plan. You push. And somewhere in the middle of all that effort, you wonder why you feel further from peace than ever.
What if the problem is not your lack of effort? What if the problem is the effort itself?
That question is at the heart of Trusting God: The Path of Least Resistance — a book I did not plan to write. It came to me one morning in February 2022 while I was praying. Words arrived, one after the other, and I had no choice but to sit down and let them through.
I finished the first draft in less than 15 days. For someone who took years to complete her previous books, this alone felt like a miracle. And looking back, it was the book proving its own thesis: when you let go and let God, things happen faster and more beautifully than you ever imagined.
Trusting God looks nothing unusual but truly, it feels so calming and peaceful even amidst all the chaos that it feels purely magical.
From Trusting God: The Path of Least Resistance
The Question Nobody Asks
Most spiritual books tell you to trust God. Very few tell you what that actually looks like on a Tuesday afternoon when your heart is heavy and nothing is going the way you hoped.
This book does. It is not a theological treatise. It is not a list of rules. It is a conversation between two people — you, wherever you are right now, and a writer who has been through a near-fatal car accident, failed medical school entrance exams, an arranged marriage she did not ask for, chronic anxiety, and the daily battle against a voice in her head that says she is not good enough.
And through all of it, one thing worked. Not perfectly, not without doubt, but consistently and quietly. Trusting God.
This Book Is For You If...
You might need this book
You have been praying for something for so long that you have started to wonder if God is listening. You feel stuck and you cannot tell if the right move is to try harder or let go. You believe in God — or something greater than yourself — but your faith wavers when life gets loud. You are tired of the gap between what you know and what you actually feel.
If you nodded at any of that, keep reading.
What Is The Path of Least Resistance?
Resistance is not something life does to you. It is something you create — through fear, through control, through the desperate need to know how and when and whether things will work out.
The path of least resistance is not the path of doing nothing. It is the path of doing the right things from the right place. Not from panic. Not from proving yourself. From a deep, settled trust that God has already figured out what you are still anxiously trying to solve.
When I stopped trying to force the outcome of my arranged marriage — when I finally said to God, "let your will be done" — I met a man who had already fallen in love with me before we had even spoken. I did not see that coming. God did.
That is not a coincidence. That is what happens when you stop blocking what is already yours.
Let go and let God has been one of my favourite mantras and it has never failed me.
From Trusting God: The Path of Least Resistance
What You Will Find Inside
This book covers the full journey from resistance to surrender, with honesty, personal stories, and practical tools you can use today.
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Why trusting God is the fastest path to what you want — and why forcing things slows everything down
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The difference between God and the Universe — and why it matters more than you think
03
How to deal with imposter syndrome by shifting who is really doing the work
04
The honest chapter on anxiety, overthinking, and mental health that nobody else is writing
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Why gratitude is not a cliche — and how to practise it even when your wish has not come true yet
06
8 real, tested practices to surrender — including Letters to God, affirmations, and reflecting on the past
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The Story That Changed My Faith Forever
In June 2008, a car I was travelling in fell off a bridge in Dehradun. I was 13 years old. When I felt the car tipping, I put my head in my lap and thought it was over.
Seven of the eight people in that car survived. I walked away with the fewest injuries of anyone. My mother had already prepared herself to never see her children again.
Some weeks later, she pointed at the pendant of Mata Vaishno Devi around my neck and said, "perhaps, this saved you."
I believed her. And my faith has never been the same since.
That day did not make life easy. We lost someone precious. My aunt lost her ability to walk. Grief and gratitude do not cancel each other out — they coexist in ways that only make sense when you believe that God is present in all of it, even the parts that break your heart.
This book is not a promise that trusting God means everything will go smoothly. It is a promise that when you trust God, you will not be alone in any of it — and that what feels like loss often turns out to be the beginning of something you could not have planned for yourself.
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A Note On Faith, God, and Whatever Name You Use
This book does not require you to belong to a particular religion. It does not ask you to abandon your doubts. It only asks you to consider that there is a power greater than your fear, and that leaning on it might be the bravest and most practical thing you ever do.
Whether you call that power God, the Universe, your Higher Self, or your Creator — the invitation in these pages is the same. Stop pushing. Start allowing. Watch what happens.
The book draws from Hindu scripture, Christian verses, modern manifestation philosophy, and lived experience. It belongs to everyone who has ever looked up and asked for help.
What readers are saying
This book was written for those who need it — and those who need it always seem to find it. If this post found you today, consider that it was not by accident.
If you are thinking about your difficulty, you are not thinking about God.
Emmet Fox, The Golden Key — quoted in Trusting God
One Last Thing Before You Go
I procrastinate. I struggle with imposter syndrome. I deal with anxiety. I have failed at things I wanted badly and been saved from things I thought I needed. I am not a guru. I am not a preacher.
I am someone who found something that works and could not keep it to myself.
This book is that thing. It is short enough to read in one sitting and deep enough to return to again and again. It is honest in the way only personal testimony can be. And it was written in the exact spirit it teaches — surrendered, trusting, and without fear of how it would be received.
I hope it reaches you at exactly the right moment. God has a way of making that happen.
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