Willful Evolution: Because healing the heart takes strength by Janice Beetle

Inspiration and some laughs

The past 10 years of my life was a willful evolution that took me from grieving to great. The decade began when I was laid off from the job that supported my entire family, and four days later, my husband died. My book talks about how I worked hard to survive and transform my life. I learned how to make more money. I got physically stronger. And I fixed some relationships that were broken because I finally recognized I had a hand in breaking them.

I wrote Willful Evolution in hopes it might help others take a fresh look at their own lives to consider if they need inspiration to launch their own evolution. Because that’s what my book can do. It can inspire you, and it will also make you laugh.

In 2010, I was laid off from my full-time job as a communications specialist in a hospital while I was on a family medical leave, taking care of my husband in his last days. I heard my boss tell me my position had been eliminated as I stood on my front steps; Ed lay in a hospital bed in my living room just inside the door. He died four days later. I had no income. No partner, and two teenaged children to raise.

I told the story of that devastating loss in my first memoir, “Divine Renovations,” which was published in 2011. My new book, “Willful Evolution,” is a sequel to the first book, and it is poignant, inspiring, and at turns, downright funny. The book shows how I reinvented myself, building not one but two successful businesses and otherwise turning vulnerability into strength.

When you read “Willful Evolution,” you will hear stories of my travels to far-away places, meet some of the wacky men I met while online dating, hear how I used yoga, exercise, and adventure to gain physical and emotional strength, and see how I met the man I wanted to marry after learning in my gut that I would be fine without another man.

My book is about wrestling fear, building relationships, and finally growing up—in my mid-fifties. Think “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert; “Love, Warrior” by Glennon Doyle; and “Daring Greatly” by Brené Brown. My book is as inspiring, amusing, and powerful as these. “Willful Evolution” will make you laugh and empower your soul.

My hope is that people who read my book will find new strength in their own lives, take risks, set new goals, and reinvent themselves!

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Faithful Nomad by Lisa Szkatulski

‘È come essere schiaffeggiato nel buio,’ 

which means ‘It’s like being slapped in the dark.’ 

It’s happened to all of us. Some things we choose to have in our lives, and some things we don’t. Faithful Nomad makes the case that by owning our space, we create our own path that is not only valid, but breathtaking and enlightening. Stripping away everything familiar leaves us with nothing but ourselves - the journey that matters most.

Author Lisa Szkatulski has been writing creative briefs for nearly twenty years. In her debut book, written in the style of "Eat, Pray, Love" or "Girl, Wash Your Face," she leads readers through deeply personal reflections of 24 countries traveled, a career in advertising, officiating four weddings, chronic illness, birth and death and all the other everyday things – to demonstrate the journey, art and practice of self-trust. She lays out how finding joy in the journey may be a predisposition... but trusting the journey is a worthwhile practice that can be learned.

Faithful Nomad is for anyone who is endlessly curious, searching for what life is all about, and gets excited by unearthing and facing their own shadow selves. Faithful Nomad readers know instinctively that when the soul cries out, it takes both the desire and practice of self-awareness to listen and learn to what it has to say. In this book, they will find a willing and able kindred spirit to show them how the work can be done.

Receive a discount on the ebook to US $1.99 from April 16-19

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Skye Stories: Volume 1 The Linicro Years by Raymond Moore

Five years for an adult passes in five minutes. Five years for a kid is a lifetime. An attempted bike stealing incident in Glasgow when Raymond Moore was 13 led to him living in Linicro on the Isle of Skye with his Great Granny and Great Aunt. His family stayed in the city whilst his life changed on the island. Skye Stories tells the adventures he had growing up: the girls he fancied, the sheep he worried, and the music he loved. 

Although the book is about Skye and his love for the island, the account of his experiences and emotions will strike a chord with people who have never been near there. Skye changed the author's life forever and for the better. You could say the Isle of Skye saved his life. 

This book, Volume 1, tells the story of the first two years on Skye—the Linicro years.

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Skye Stories by Raymond Moore