{"product_id":"9780981879178","title":"Restoring Your Beautiful Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat challenges and obstacles have you encountered in your life? Have there been times that you've felt \"broken,\" or like you're just about to break open? You may even be feeling that way at this very moment. You may believe that what you have experienced is unique; that no one else could possibly understand, or that no one else has ever gone through it. It is true that no one has had your EXACT experience, because we each come with our own history; however, chances are that you will find yourself and similar feelings and experiences in the story of one or more of the women in this book. In these stories, you will be able to see that there IS hope: Hope for an end to the pain, hope for a new beginning ... hope to restore the beautiful life that each of us are entitled to live!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelissa White had what many would believe was that beautiful life. At 32, she was an attorney with her own private practice. She was married to her best friend - who also happened to be a doctor. For the first time in her life, she wasn't worried about money. But instead of being happy living what she thought should be the beautiful life, she was miserable. Somewhere deep in her being, she felt she was living behind a mask, living - not the beautiful life - but a life that was a fraud. But why? The more she tried to make sense of it intellectually, the more the answers to basic questions eluded her: \"Who was I? And how had I gotten here? I thought I did everything right. But if I did do everything right, why wasn't I happy? Who lied to me along the way? Who created this mask, and how could I pry it off? How could I find my way home...back to myself, to my truth? \"Melissa found her answers in writing, trusting that in the silence of the pages, she would find the voice that had eluded her for so long. Accompany Melissa on her journey to find her way back to herself, to her beautiful life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerry Volin Ream got up one night on what she thought was going to be a routine visit to the bathroom, but on the way discovered she was dragging her left side. No matter how she tried to rationalize the symptoms and the fear away, she realized she was having a stroke. The doctors at the hospital confirmed her fears - she had suffered a stroke that had paralyzed her left side. Her next three months involved leaving for rehab every morning at 6:00 a.m., returning home that night at 6:00 p.m. exhausted, going to sleep, and then starting over again the next morning. She had been told that if she were able to recover enough to go back to work, it would be at least a year - IF she was able to return to work at all! Terry was fortunate to have the loving support of her family and friends, and to discover the principles of the mind-body-spirit connection as taught by Louise L. Hay in the book, You Can Heal Your Life. She immediately began to visualize herself as healthy and whole, and amazed everyone around her when she was able to make a miraculous recovery in far less time than the doctors imagined could be possible and to a far greater degree than anyone thought possible - except for Terry! Even though she made an almost total recovery, the doctors had never been able to find a physical cause for the stroke, but Terry knew that the real reason had to be beyond the physical so she began to take a look at her life and found the causes. Terry's story will show you that there is always hope, and there is always a way to restore your beautiful life if you're willing to do the mental work. Terry and her story are an inspiration for us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTammy Gynell Lagoski grew up in a small rural setting in Illinois and experienced a childhood filled with low self-esteem, mixed signals, secrets (alcoholism and physical abuse) and a broken family. The physical abuse was not just toward Tammy, but extended to her mother and her brothers. It was a confusing time because interspersed with her step-father's violent alcoholic rages and criticism , there would be really fun family times. By the time she was a teenager, she lived in fear of being rejected because of her looks, lack of smarts, or education, or not being sophisticated enough to blend in with a new community and fear of not succeeding in college. She experienced unemployment, divorce, several moves, illness, severe depression and a suicide attempt. Her life was anything but the beautiful life she was meant to live. For Tammy, it was finding her faith in God that guided her, shielded her and protected her when life seemed bleak and colorless. Although at times her faith left her, she found her way back to herself and to God. Tammy encourages each person to let yourself shine, and to allow yourself to be free of the past, the anger and the low self-esteem. She asks us to consider the Kaleidoscope of life: Will the scope remain stuck in the dark abyss of life's ugliness or will the scope turn and reveal the beauty of life, and the peace that God has in store for you? Tammy chose to turn the scope and accept the beauty of self, and the Holy Spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMolly Welenski didn't always have the beautiful life she experiences today and, as a result, awakens every morning with a sense of gratitude. She begins each day by taking time to thank God for her many blessings and gifts. She feels that her life is a testament to the thought that some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Though her lessons have been painful, through the love she has received from her family, she has come to the beautiful life she now has. Molly grew up in poverty in Canada as the seventh of eight children in a family full of shame. There was criticism and judgment from the community that the parents had more children than they could care for, and were, therefore, not \"a morally fit family.\" In addition, there was physical, sexual and emotional abuse. There was no trust in their household, and her home life was quite unpredictable most of the time. All her life, Molly wanted to be a mother - a better mother than she felt she had had. She was initially plagued with infertility problems but eventually gave birth to a healthy baby boy. After that she endured a miscarriage and a pregnancy that had to be terminated because of rare complications with the fetus. And, then, finally, the birth of a healthy baby girl. But her desire to be a good mother was compromised by depression and insecurities. Join Molly as she tells her story of overcoming her childhood, her depression and insecurities to claim the beautiful life she longed to have.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKimberly S. Pratte came to her beautiful life through self-awareness and healing through forgiveness. She tells how her \"paradigm shift\" was only possible because she was able to visualize it, understand it, and was determined to reach it and completely remember it, which ultimately led to a sense of well-being, a state of wellness, in every aspect of her life unlike anything she had ever experienced before. Kimberly tells us how life had beaten her down to a point where she truly believed that no one would ever really love her. She felt that \"she\" didn't matter, and always made sure that everyone else's needs were met and they were happy. She felt frozen in a reality of creating negative energy within and around herself. She seemed to always attract abuse and abusive relationships. She feels her pattern started when her father left the family when Kimberly was only 2-1\/2 years old. Eventually her mother had to leave the children with the grandparents so she could work, and she only saw her children on the weekends. It was the birth of another younger brother and the suicide of her beloved grandfather that really shattered her world, leaving her feeling alone, betrayed and abandoned. Kimberly was able to turn her life around when she found Jim Morningstar and Transformations USA and the School of Integrative Psychology in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Through this work, she has gone through a long journey of self-discovery and reconnecting with herself to get back to the truth of who she really is. Kimberly takes us through the steps to finding and knowing your truth, and living your beautiful life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShelly York will share with you the tumultuous period during which she experienced the deaths of several family members, including the suicide of her dad's father. During this same period of time, she suffered a miscarriage and went through severe financial struggles resulting in bankruptcy. Shortly after that, her cherished father died in his sleep during a nap. She feels that she was at a turning point in her life. She had recently lost her dad, quit a job that she hated, had moved back in with her mother (so her mother wouldn't be alone), and was stuck in an unhappy and loveless marriage. She felt that there just had to be more to life. At that point, she watched the DVD by Louise L. Hay called You Can Heal Your Life, then immediately went out and bought the book of the same name. Shelly's life began to change at that moment. She still had some painful lessons to go through, but through it all, learned that she was deserving of love. She discovered that through honesty and authenticity she received the gift of unconditional love. Shelly went through seven painful years of struggle and grief, to ultimately find her way to her authentic self, and to find her beautiful life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJody Kratz believes that major life changes must start from within, that your outer world cannot change until you work to change your inner world. She will lead us through her younger years as the daughter of an alcoholic father who suffered from depression. Her beloved older brother committed suicide which set Jody into a cycle of depression, panic attacks, an abortion, guilt, severe illness and drinking. After she married and had kids, she realized that her husband was also an alcoholic. Although her husband could be a great father to her kids, his mental illnesses, drinking, secretive behaviors and ultimately losing his company really set him into a tailspin which resulted in his eventual suicide. As a nurse and working a long distance from her home, she would pass the long hours in the car listening to tapes such as a Course in Miracles and The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle which would ultimately change her life. Jody takes us through her turbulent and chaotic life then teaches us the basics of how she turned her life around. Jody is currently building a holistic business and believes she is now doing what she was meant to do in this life time. She tells us that she is loving every second of her beautifully restored new life!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol Roese was born in Brazil as the youngest of four children. She feels that her childhood was great, but it was when she was about 18 years old that she began to live with manipulation, jealousy and disagreements, and soon desperation and depression were a part of her life. She was introduced to the concept of creating your life with your thoughts by a psychiatrist in Brazil and that's when her life began to change. She moved to the United States totally on faith, with no friends, no job and not knowing where she wanted to live. She first lived in San Diego, then later moved to Miami where she felt the culture and the people were more like Brazil. Again, she had no job, no friends but trusted her inner voice that Miami was the place for her to be. In San Diego Carol had read many Louise Hay books and really began to embrace and use the philosophies, eventually becoming a licensed Hay Teacher and Workshop leader, which is based on the teachings and philosophies of Louise Hay. Carol tells us that she doesn't know what she will be doing next in life, but she does know that she can change her reality and her experiences anytime she wants. She will teach you how to use affirmations and positive thoughts by explaining how she has created her wonderful, beautiful life in America! In the stories of these eight women, you will find abuse, grief, loss, depression, suicide, alcoholism, broken families, poverty and a myriad of other conditions with which almost anyone can identify. But more importantly, you will also find love, perseverance, tenacity, endurance, dignity, passion, and self-respect. In their journeys, they have found ways to transcend their life circumstances and restore their beautiful lives. 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