Inspiring and easy-to-grasp method to prompt goal setting and personal growth.
A singer/actress/life coach’s debut self-help guide outlines how to nurture mind, body, spirit, emotions, and environment to achieve one’s goals in life.
Thomas, a California-based singer and actress, knows full well the challenges in striving to, as she says, manifest your dreams and live life’s purpose. “As creatives, many of us are stuck in the artist with poverty mentality, because that is what we learned, whether from society, our parents, or some other authority figure who had an effect on our lives and thought he/she could dictate how we felt about ourselves and our dreams and how we should be living,” she says. “These naysayers told us artists always struggle.” In this guide, Thomas describes how to upend such negativity through positive, purposeful focus of one’s mind, body, spirit, emotions, and environment. She concludes her inspirational, essaylike discussions about each of these areas with exercises “to get into a routine of self-care” to help reinforce these important themes. She suggests writing down self-affirmations (e.g., “YES, I CAN DO IT”), accepting the part one’s emotions play in one’s life (listen well and don’t be overwhelmed by these feelings), take time to relax and recharge, and tap into the principles of feng shui to transform your home into a sanctuary. She ends each section with an accountability chart, a grid by which to list goals and note one’s daily progress. Thomas brings an encouraging tone and a clearly articulated vision to this motivational map-out of how to adopt a more purposeful approach to life. The accountability charts as well as a few tough-love statements—e.g., “being overwhelmed is a choice” —help the book rise above the platitudes found in many guides to the power of positive thinking. The simple yet engaging and effective rubric will allow readers to raise their self-awareness and take steps toward improvement.
Inspiring and easy-to-grasp method to prompt goal setting and personal growth.Pub Date: Nov. 5, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9909802-0-9
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: July 7, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.
Sisters work together to solve a child-abandonment case.
Ellie and Julia Cates have never been close. Julia is shy and brainy; Ellie gets by on charm and looks. Their differences must be tossed aside when a traumatized young girl wanders in from the forest into their hometown in Washington. The sisters’ professional skills are put to the test. Julia is a world-renowned child psychologist who has lost her edge. She is reeling from a case that went publicly sour. Though she was cleared of all wrongdoing, Julia’s name was tarnished, forcing her to shutter her Beverly Hills practice. Ellie Barton is the local police chief in Rain Valley, who’s never faced a tougher case. This is her chance to prove she is more than just a fading homecoming queen, but a scarcity of clues and a reluctant victim make locating the girl’s parents nearly impossible. Ellie places an SOS call to her sister; she needs an expert to rehabilitate this wild-child who has been living outside of civilization for years. Confronted with her professional demons, Julia once again has the opportunity to display her talents and salvage her reputation. Hannah (The Things We Do for Love, 2004, etc.) is at her best when writing from the girl’s perspective. The feral wolf-child keeps the reader interested long after the other, transparent characters have grown tiresome. Hannah’s torturously over-written romance passages are stale, but there are surprises in store as the sisters set about unearthing Alice’s past and creating a home for her.
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.Pub Date: March 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-345-46752-3
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2005
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.
"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.Pub Date: June 15, 1951
ISBN: 0316769177
Page Count: -
Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1951
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