Awakening the Amazing You: How to Thrive Midst of Crisis

is filled with 13 true stories of people, just like you, who've had to survive crises, and how they navigated those times of trial to create new, magnificent lives. These essays show how to use life's challenges to move to a higher level of life. They offer guidance and step-by-step instructions for turning your life into a series of ever more enriching moments-whatever you're going through. From bestselling author Janet Bray Attwood finding herself down to thirteen dollars and then making the dramatic decision to give it away to Catherine's perilous escape from Communist Hungary to MaryLynn's incredibly creative process for overcoming the trauma of rape, you'll find yourself enthralled, shocked, delighted, and, at times, in tears. Let the stories and life lessons in be your support system. You'll no doubt find yourself on these pages-with a map to move through any challenge life may have brought to you.