Honestly Speaking was created as a logical progression of my coaching work and to give a voice to the frustrations and challenges we hear expressed every day in person and via the media.
The following 5 headlines were all published in the same week in July 2016:
What do they have in common?
They all speak to the self-medicating, blame-oriented and extrinsically focused nature of today’s society. Entertainment takes priority over self-awareness and actualization. Judgement of others comes before looking at our own lives. And finally, they speak to so much outward projected pain leading to a willingness to kill innocent children in a severely misguided effort to get attention and help.
My vision with Honestly Speaking then is to provide the hope and the solution I believe is being sought after. It’s my experience that while many of us want to talk about and examine these topics we seldom feel free to do so with the openness necessary to find the answers we seek.
What you will find in Honestly Speaking are everyday examples of the struggles we all face. Some of these stories have happy outcomes. Others, however, do not. What you also find is a step by step guide to help you or someone you love reach the awareness and acceptance needed to achieve the self-love, self-esteem and self-confidence we all want, need, deserve and have in our power to achieve.
There are five chapters:
Chapter 1
What is the cost of ignoring your true heart?
Chapter 2
How did we get here and what factors influence our view?
Chapter 3
What is the benefit of living according to your true heart?
Chapter 4
What are the catalysts to change?
Chapter 5
What are the steps to change?
Fifty years of living, loving, listening and learning have gone into this book all with the knowledge that if even one life is changed, I will have accomplished my mission.
Dawn