The General Manager of Your Universe

By Jamie Roth

The General Manager of Your Universe is not another how-to-be-happy book. There are plenty of those on the market. It's about facing your responsibility to create the life you desire. This includes recognizing how you have contributed thus far and how you can do so much better from this point on. It's time trade in the victim card and replace it with the empowered, confident you that you are meant to be. This book has straightforward language and sometimes shocking examples. It is not going to stroke your ego, it's going to lead you to the inside of you and that might not always be easy to look at. But it's time to stop searching for external influences to make you happy and feel good. Make yourself feel good. Live authentically, joyfully and empowered. That is the journey this book will lead you on. Only read, if you are certain you are ready to be you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jamie Roth
• Release date: Jan 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452421728

Jamie Roth

Jamie Roth is an inspirational leader and speaker. She teaches people around the world, how to "get real" and take charge. Her first book "The General Manager of Your Universe" gets to the heart of living empowered and creating the life you desire.

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THE GENERAL

MANAGER OF

YOUR

UNIVERSE

Jamie Roth

FIRST EDITION

September Dawn Publishing Company

Jackson, MS

The General Manager of Your Universe.

Copyright © 2011by Jamie Roth.

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Dedication

Dedicated to Annette lee, for clearly stating to me that I am the General Manager of the Universe, and that’s why!

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my many clients that constantly open themselves up to me body, mind, and soul. They constantly show me the beauty of awakening to our truths, and living them out loud. I am blessed to be a part of the process of each one of them going home to themselves. It’s awe-inspiring each time I get to be a part of it, and it fuels me to keep going in my life’s work.

I also wish to express gratitude to my husband, Ryan Roth, for being my biggest fan, and the best teammate anyone could hope for. May we always explore and create an exciting Universe together.

I am also indebted to my children, Cooper Roth, and Wyatt Roth, for always being true to themselves. Every day I witness the beauty of these two little souls expressing their divine right to be General Managers, without anyone having to explain it to them. Nobody has taught me how to do it better.

Additionally I would like to thank my editor, Lisbeth A. Tanz, who was put through the wringer, (or was I the one that was put through the wringer), editing a first time author. Any editor taking on that task is in a league of their own.

CHAPTER INDEX

Introduction

Chapter 1: Take responsibility

Chapter 2: Accept yourself

Chapter 3: Be authentic

Chapter 4: Understanding energy

Chapter 5: Release fear

Chapter 6: Understand and utilize your intuition

Chapter 7: Joy is the ultimate experience

Afterword

INTRODUCTION

I am you, and you are me. We aren’t all the same, but we’re all very similar. And we all have a story. My story is no better or worse than anyone else’s. It’s just my story; just as you have a story. And our stories, our experiences are what make us who we are. Every moment shapes us in some way. I have had many moments that have led to this point, to this book.

My story begins in Boulder, Colorado 33 years ago. Like anyone else, my story has many twists and turns, many difficult, painful times, and many bright shining moments that have pushed me forward. There has always been a lesson to be learned.

I was sexually molested starting at a very young age. My first memory of it is at five years old. It happened many times and at the hands of multiple people. I didn’t tell anyone until I was 25 years old. At that time there were only a couple of people who chose to believe and support me, unfortunately my family were not among them.

I’ve experienced depression for over half of my lifetime, going so deep into it that I tried to commit suicide at the age of 12 and again at the age of 21.

Perhaps not surprisingly, I also suffered for three years from bulimia, an eating disorder.

It’s important to note that within my small family of mother, father and one brother; three out of four of us have dealt with depression and attempted to commit suicide. We’ve also dealt with alcoholism and drug abuse within the family. Clearly mine wasn’t the healthiest of functioning of families.

I’ve been in and out of therapy several times over the course of my life. I even diagnosed myself as bi-polar after my second suicide attempt. I did a lot of research, and fit myself into a perfect bi-polar box. I then presented my findings to my psychiatrist. His response was that I did a good job of researching. Further, he agreed with me. From that point on I was diagnosed with the illness. I even researched the meds that were commonly given for bi-polar spectrum disorder patients and suggested one to use. Again, the doctor agreed and wrote me a prescription. That began my year of living as a bi-polar patient. Every move I made I put into a check marked box, either manic or depressive. Nothing I did was just because that was me being me. I couldn’t be hyper without deciding I was being manic. I couldn’t be tired and grouchy without it being a depressive episode.

At this point I moved to Seattle Washington because I had an opportunity, thanks to a wonderful family friend. In my first year there, I began to explore who I was. I got in touch with myself in ways that no psychiatrist had been able to do. I was tired of living negatively and feeling depressed.

My worst and best moment at the same time is when I walked out of the new psychiatrist’s office with three new heavy-duty prescriptions. These were the drugs seriously psychotic people were on. I guess I was on them because nothing else was working. Nothing ever felt different to me no matter what I was taking. I never felt more or less depressed or happy. So the medicinal cocktails only got stronger and more labor intensive. At one point, I was living by which med I had to take and when, including halving some of the pills with a pill cutter. These medicines were to be taken throughout the day on a schedule. But that day, as I walked out with these three new prescriptions, I had a life altering moment.

I still vividly remember standing on the busy Seattle sidewalk, on my way to the Walgreens pharmacy. I was moving slowly while everyone around me continued to hustle and bustle. But things got still in my own world and I remember so clearly thinking, This is it? Really? This is what my life is going to be about forever more? This can’t be right. In fact, this is all wrong!

That was the moment I decided to take matters into my own hands. After giving it a lot more thought, I decided to jump out of the bi-polar box that I’d put myself into. I slowly and carefully got off the meds. I let everyone around me know what I was doing. I didn’t hide it from anyone. As I was easing off the medications, I was also investing in myself in many other ways.

I began on a Spiritual path. I learned to meditate. I learned about breath work. I invested time and money into healers and healing of all different modalities. I began exploring my intuition that was always there, but I began using it to a new degree. Initially I did this to begin healing within myself. I also experienced a significant amount of body work such as massages, which helped me make a strong connection to my physical self.

I changed my attitude and my perception and I changed my life.

I began being more careful about who I allowed into my experience, as well as what I allowed others to project on to me. I learned about energy and how to shift and move it to improve my own experiences and to protect myself from all the craziness in the world.

I did it. I changed me, although not all by myself. I’ve met and continue to meet many amazing people