Author: Dayna Mason
Publisher: Seattle Indie Press
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0997893826
ISBN 13: 978-0997893823
Imagine feeling excited about your life ...
... a life that you've created, a life you totally love
What if you fell in love with you?
And no, that doesn't make you a narcissist.
Your relationship with yourself is the foundation of your life. Embacing the truth of who you uniquely are is empowering.
Could past trauma be holding you back from happiness?
Bestselling author Dayna Mason and co-author Jason Andrada use inspiring stories, and easy exercises to help you identify the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that keep you stuck choosing the same limiting relationships and life, over and over again.
Get free once and for all.
- Let go of the lies you still carry with you from childhood
- Embrace your awesomeness
- Enjoy a life you totally love, regardless of relationship status
Within this book is everything you need to take action that brings you true happiness and fulfillment.
Take control of your destiny—the awesome life you were always meant to live.
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This is not a traditional “self-help” book. You’ll love the page-turning honesty of the authors’ real-life stories, and appreciate the easy to follow tools, because they will take you on a quest that changes you.
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”This book focuses on the relationship that forms the basis for all other relationships -- our relationship with ourselves. Although the two main characters experienced specific types of trauma that informed their actions, any reader can benefit from the tools of self-discovery and self-care that are included in this book. A life-affirming story of turning pain into a springboard for helping others.” -SJM, Amazon Reviewer
“Easy to read and relate to. If you want to recognize and change behavior patterns in your life that have led to relationship failure then this is your book. Dayna and Jason share their adverse childhood experiences of trauma and explain how those experiences shape the dynamics of their relationships today.” –Susie Meyer, Amazon Reviewer
Review
"This book focuses on the relationship that forms the basis for all other relationships -- our relationship with ourselves. Although the two main characters experienced specific types of trauma that informed their actions, any reader can benefit from the tools of self-discovery and self-care that are included in this book. A life-affirming story of turning pain into a springboard for helping others." -SJM, Amazon Reviewer
"Easy to read and relate to. If you want to recognize and change behavior patterns in your life that have led to relationship failure then this is your book. Dayna and Jason share their adverse childhood experiences of trauma and explain how those experiences shape the dynamics of their relationships today." -Susie Meyer, Amazon Reviewer
KIRKUS REVIEW
A thoughtful and useful work of self-help tips as fiction.
A debut self-help novel tells the story of two traumatized friends attempting to get past the abuses they suffered as children.
Even though she is a financially successful woman of 35, Anne Davis keeps choosing deadbeat guys. She's a rescuer: trying to save Derek from his own abusive behavior in the hopes that he'll finally be well enough to love her back. She knows it stems from some abandonment issues from never having met her father, coupled with the grief she still feels over the death of her son. Knowing where it comes from doesn't really help, unfortunately. Luckily, Anne has Dominic in her life: her friend for years who has undergone his own cycles of bad decision-making before finally becoming a respected counselor. Dominic was molested as a child by a pair of older girls (his babysitters), which greatly informs his sex life and his emotional state as an adult. With the help of Dominic and another old friend, Josie, Anne digs deeper into her life and finds trauma that she wasn't previously aware of. Even better, they help her to work through that pain in order to stop searching for love from impossible sources and find it within herself. Following the conclusion of the tale, Mason and Andrada provide 40 pages of helpful strategies for people who have found themselves in similar situations to Anne and Dominic. The authors write in a buoyant prose that keeps the story peppy and easy to read even in its heavier moments. Sprinkled throughout the dialogue are snippets of self-help ideas that relate to the problems of the characters. "I've found there are three types of people," explains Dominic at one point. "Doers, feelers and thinkers. Doers, like myself, are goal oriented. They don't have time for emotions. Feelers are driven by emotions. All decisions are based on feelings. Thinkers are driven by logic." That the novel is written primarily as a teaching aid (rather than for the tale itself) saps it of the urgency readers normally expect in fiction. But the book succeeds in terms of demonstrating the issues and the coping mechanisms advocated by the authors.
A thoughtful and useful work of self-help tips as fiction.
