Best-selling publisher Linda Joy brings you a powerful collection of stories from twenty-seven amazing women who have entered a brave new world of conscious, deliberate, positive-and most of all, happy-living. Through trials and triumphs great and small, these fearless female leaders prove that true fulfillment is the result of connecting to inner wisdom and making choices which honor the truths revealed there. The Reflection Questions which follow each story create a unique ‘active reading experience’ which will empower you to integrate the vital lessons of each woman’s journey into your own life. These honest, authentic stories from real women will make you smile, cry, and maybe even laugh out loud-but more importantly, they’ll prove to you that everyone, no matter her background or circumstances, can make the powerful choice to be happy! Contributing authors for Choosing Happiness include: Lisa Marie Rosati, Stacey Martino, Stacey Curnow, Mal Duane, Mary E. Pritchard, Ph.D., Laura Clark, Wendy Van de Poll, Kellyann Schaefer, Peggy Nolan, Shelley Lundquist, Shann Vander Leek, Debra Reble, Ph.D., Boni Lonnsburry, Shelley Riutta, Kristi Ling, Lisa Wells, Christy Whitman, Mia Moran, Lynda Monk, Alexa Linton, Sangita Patel, Linda Bard, Sandi Gordon, Tiffany Kane, Marianne MacKenzie, Tina Van Leuven, and Stacey Hoffer Weckstein. “I am deeply touched by the bravery, courage and depth these extraordinary women went to in telling their transformational stories with such openness and vulnerability,” says Joy. “Though each of their journeys are different, you’ll discover a sacred truth woven through each one – that even in the midst of life’s messiness we all hold the power to choose happiness. What an honor to hold space for these soul-inspiring women.” Praise for Choosing Happiness: “You deserve to be wildly happy, and happiness comes down to powerful choices more than circumstances. These stories provide true examples of finding your mojo and turning our lives around, one choice at a time.” Tama Kieves, best-selling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love, Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life’s Work, and A Year Without Fear. “We don’t always choose the hand we are dealt, but we can choose how we move forward as we play the hand amidst adversity and change. The inspiring stories in Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness will ignite you and show you that choosing happiness is a way to move forward in life.” Kristine Carlson, coauthor of the New York Times best-selling Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff book series. “Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness truly is inspiration for any soul. These stories of courage, wisdom, and transformation will touch your heart, inspire your mind, heal your sadness, and light up your life. Knowing that others have gone through the fire, overcome the fear, and seen the gift within is a beautiful thing. Best-selling inspirational publisher Linda Joy has hit it out of the park again!” Debra Oakland, founder of LivinginCourage.com
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The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss & Body Confidence: A Woman’s Guide to Stressing Less, Weighing Less, and Loving More
Many women live their lives believing that they can’t ask for what they want until they change something they’re unhappy with. No promotion until they get new skills. No relationship until they establish their career. No fulfillment until they find love. One of the most common conditions women place on themselves is weight loss—no love until they lose weight, no sex until they lose weight, no happiness until they lose weight. But Jessica Ortner, co-producer of the highly successful documentary on meridian tapping, The Tapping Solution, offers women a better choice. Why not lose the weight and create the life you’ve always dreamt of?As a culture obsessed with weight loss, we all know the latest fads that claim to help us drop pounds instantly. What often isn’t discussed is the science behind the issue and how learning to deal with stress can promote and accelerate weight loss. Not only does stress create an overabundance of cortisol that is directly related to abdominal obesity, it also impacts behavior, supporting bad habits, including using food to deal with difficult emotions and painful situations.In this groundbreaking book, Jessica uses tapping to help tackle the stress that leads to weight gain—including the personal stresses of low self-esteem and a lack of confidence. Using her own struggles with weight loss, along with success stories of some of the thousands of women she’s worked with, Jessica walks readers through the process of discovering their personal power and self-worth.Her program is based on extensive research into the benefits and success of tapping and the hormones involved in stress and weight gain. In this book she guides readers through a proven process of overcoming their dependency on food. She covers everything from the emotional aspects of overeating and cravings, to how to find joy in exercise, the power of pleasure, and how our families and friends may inadvertently add to the problem.With hope, heart, humor, and science, Jessica weaves a path to a happy, healthy life full of confidence and joy.
Three Thousand Miles for a Wish : the true story of a young woman’s quest to find happiness
AN AMAZON UK TOP 40 BESTSELLER
Reader reaction:
‘Wow’. ‘A rare masterpiece’. ‘Mindblowing’. ‘Probably the most amazing book I have ever read’. ‘You have given so much to the world and to me’. ‘A true awakening’. ‘An amazing journey’. ‘There is not a book like it’. ‘Truly inspirational’. ‘A gripping and powerful read’. ‘Gives you a whole new meaning on life’. ‘Definitely a page-turner’. ‘Mesmerizing.’ ‘Incredible. I want my children to read it when they grow older’.
Description:
What would you do if your whole world came crashing down?
Broken promises of love. Deceits of life. Safiya is deep in despair and nearing self-destruction. But a chance opportunity to escape suicidal misery beckons her.
Millions said ‘it is the land of wishes’. Mecca – Saudi Arabia. Millions said ‘it is a life changing journey’. Hajj – the pilgrimage.
England to Arabia. Thrown into garments resembling a death shroud she embarks on the Hajj and enters the spellbinding world of ancient Islamic practices. To save herself. Alongside three million foreign and unpredictable pilgrims she makes her weeping wish in the celestial palace of Mecca. She camps with Ethiopian peasants and Arab Kings, faces the supernatural in the deserts and catches a spine-chilling glimpse of the end of the world. She uncovers love for a man she has never met and hatred for a hidden enemy. She risks her life for a fleeting obsession and steps into a perilous ritual where others had been killed.
But will her wish come true? Or will it end badly?
Three Thousand Miles for a Wish is a deeply moving, mystical and powerful story of a young woman’s real-life quest for happiness. It captures the soul with remarkable potency as it takes the reader, in a way never done before, on ‘the greatest trip on earth.’
More information: please visit threethousandmilesforawish.co.uk/
(30% of proceeds go to charity)
Life’s Journey: Woman to Woman: Inspiration, Motivation, and Truth For the Woman’s Journey
Every day women from all walks of life undergo negative experiences. All too often women find themselves alone in facing and coping with the problems they encounter. Whether it is divorce, failed dreams, unplanned pregnancy, financial hardship, family ridicule, abusive relationships, workplace discrimination, or a spiritual dilemma, women find themselves pushed to the sidelines to find healing and purpose on their own. This 200 page devotional workbook will discuss how women can break free of negative experiences in their past and present in order to take control of their lives and discover happiness and success.
Excellent As You Are: A Woman’s Book of Confidence, Comfort, and Strength
Confidence, courage, and strength. All of these things come from within, but the inspiration and encouragement to sustain these virtues comes from all around us — from the tall redwoods to the perfect sand dollar, from the flame of a candle to the weave of a hand-knit sweater. In Excellent As You Are, Sue Patton Thoele offers us food for thought, insightful stories, and motivational quotes drawn from her popular meditation book The Woman’s Book of Confidence. Her words are combined with lush photographs on which to reflect, proving all with the inspiration we need to find our own sources of lasting confidence, deep comfort, and true inner strength.
Know Yourself: A Woman’s Guide to Wholeness, Radiance & Supreme Confidence
KNOW YOURSELF: A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO WHOLENESS, RADIANCE & SUPREME CONFIDENCE will guide you to: * Know why you are in this life and what you are here to do * Learn how to live your life passionately * Uncover and eliminate feelings of being “less than” anyone else * Validate yourself rather than seeking validation from others * Own all parts of yourself and release self-criticism * Overcome negative messages you accepted as a child * Genuinely love yourself and become your own best friend * Release feelings of need in a relationship so you can relate confidently and authentically * Free yourself from emotional pain, confusion, worry, and attachment to outcomes * Activate wholeness, radiance, and supreme confidence in every area of your life Once a woman knows herself, she is radiant, whole, and supremely confident. Once you know who you truly are, you become an unstoppable positive force of the divine within. You will be a beacon of hope; your example will radiate out to all around you as you stand confidently in your truth and purpose, knowing and being all you came into this life to be. This book will take you on a fantastic journey to discover who you really are, and uncover all you have forgotten yourself to be. You will come to know your truth and your purpose, and you will be able to express your truth in every facet of your life. With the help of this book, you are finally going to learn how to become whole, radiant, and supremely confident; and you are going to shine!
The Woman’s Book of Confidence: Meditations for Strength and Inspiration
Sue Patton Thoele has written a dozen books, sharing the wisdom of her own life and her practice as a therapist. Women of all ages will find reassurance, humor, and stories that help them access the confidence they need to make their lives and dreams their own.
Thoele encourages us to weave a safety net, befriend our fears and see what we can take away from them, become our own parent when we need one, accept what is, and change what we can. These brief meditations, read daily, help reclaim dreams, tap into your intuitive wisdom, and find the strength to live fearlessly each and every day.
Confidence is not some big, abstract “out there” thing, accessible only to movie stars, brainiacs, and billionaires. It’s the stuff daily life is made of. Sue Thoele inspires and encourages us find and grow our own confidence.
More Than A Rib: A Woman’s Inspiration for Perspective. Healing. Empowerment (Volume 1)
More Than A Rib is a life changing resource of structure based on 9 pillars to manage day-to-day obstacles as they relate to rational decision making. Within these 9 pillars is a collection of gut-wrenching poems and short stories from women just like you, sharing their experiences of how they have managed or not managed their emotional demons. This book is designed to enlighten, encourage and motivate you to be happy with the life you have been blessed with and to inspire you to grow beyond your immediate circumstance. More Than A Rib will offer you a more positive outlook on how to balance family, career, your social life and other aspects of your life. You will hear the voices of many women brave enough to share their experiences – perhaps some of their stories will be familiar to you, similar to some of your own experiences. The stories shared are evidence that you are not alone: Others have experienced your struggles but, with perseverance and determination, the battle can be won. Before you decide to abandon your vision or settle for an insignificant one, we want to encourage you to make changes in your life to harvest and achieve your goal. More Than A Rib will leave you with the confidence to overcome minor setback and prepare you for a major comeback. Each pillar will discuss a particular aspect that embraces direct self-improvement and indirect relationship improvement. The only way to benefit from the pillars is to first admit that there is need for improvement. The mentality is flexible. You can address the opportunity or opportunities that have priority in your life. Listed below is a brief description of the 9 Pillars of Success.
Shake Your Soul-Song!: A Woman’s Guide To Self-Empowerment Through The Art Of Self-Pleasure (Volume 1)
We live in a culture that teaches us to both fear and ignore our sexuality, and repress our sensuality. Women are largely uneducated about their full pleasure-potential, and are discouraged from exploring their own unique style of healthy sensual expression.
Shake Your Soul-Song presents the idea of using pleasure as a path to self-empowerment and soul connection. By using the methodology of The 4 Principles of Self-Pleasure, each woman will more deeply understand her relationship to The 4 Forms of Pleasure, and how to use them for accessing more of her personal & spiritual potential. Each of The 4 Principles of Self-Pleasure uses practical and fun tools designed to effectively connect, heal, awaken, & transform every woman’s heart, body, mind & soul. Shake Your Soul-Song includes authentic and soulful insight into: * The 11 different orgasms for women, what they are and how to activate them for more passion, pleasure, and soul expression. * Creating a New “Pleasure Paradigm” with The 4 Principles of Self-Pleasure* The 4 Forms of Pleasure and how to use them for accessing more of your personal potential * The difference between sensuality & sexuality * Gratification vs. Pleasure * How cultivating conscious sense-uality can help you experience more presence, passion & connection in all areas of your life * How the Walt Disney Syndrome keeps us disempowered as women & contributes to relational dysfunction between partners * Ancient, powerful tools for transforming your life-experience on a cellular level * The Secret to Sensual Sovereignty Includes an effective and enjoyable ‘Pleasure Program’ for cultivating the ultimate pleasure potential in your everyday life. Also includes a special bonus exercise for cultivating sensual intimacy with your partner.Find out more about Devi Ward’s Pleasure Programs at femininemergence.com