Inspiring Grace as an Alpha-Holic

By Lindy Lewis

The amped & ramped, racked & stacked, more is better, instant gratification culture is feeding an Alpha Epidemic. Our performance based lifestyle appears Perfect on Paper but these standards push us into reaction, judgement, Comparative Narrative, & Alpha Overdrive. This stressful environment cloaks the body in armor, hardens relationships, & allows NO opportunity for self-healing or Magik in the Moment.

Inspiring Grace offers a fresh series of insightful Ah-has blending the masculine & feminine ~ to be strong, yet soft; tough, & still gentle. Accessing this graceful, compassionate nurturing nature allows you to Get Certain with Uncertainty, Hold Space to celebrate Progress, Not Perfection, and transform your Quirks into Colors!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504382113

Lindy Lewis

LINDY LEWIS - Lindy spent most of her adult life as a working woman in Corporate America while raising three children and adeptly managing an autoimmune disease that impacted not only her body, but also her spirit. Lindy’s Perfect on Paper lifestyle crashed hard when exhaustion, fear, and stress became overwhelming and she realized that life had something entirely different in mind for her. When her fairytale marriage came to an end, it launched a transformation. Her life opened to a variety of healing modalities as she focused on letting go of expectations and self-judgement. Through this empowering process she utilized a series of constructive Ah-has to maintain her health and live a life of possibilities. In her books she transforms the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, single parenting, and Being the Black Sheep into a gift of self-health.

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INSPIRING

GRACE

as an Alpha-holic

LINDY LEWIS

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Copyright © 2017 Lindy Lewis.

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Cover Design: Emerald Dumas

Book Design: Emerald Dumas

Photographs: Marie-Dominique Verdier

Jewelchic Jewelry Design, thank you

Meagan for my happy necklace!

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017908936

Balboa Press rev. date: 08/31/2017

WHAT LIES WITHIN

The Journey Continues: The Alpha EpidemicThe Alpha Epidemic

Choosing the Checklist

The Ah-ha’s

Stuck in the Muck

Manage Your Own Stuff

Quirks Make You Colorful

Be the Black Sheep

Magic in the Moment

The Love Loop

Get on the Better-Than Plan

Alpha Overdrive A Way of Armoring the Alpha

Frenetic Energetic

I Worry That I Worry Too Much

Love Your Label

I’m Weird, and So Are You

Cancel the Comparative Narrative

Get Certain with Uncertainty

Fluidity Not Rigidity

Be Your Own Woo-Woo Guru

Epilogue: Living in Grace Accepting the Journey

Learn More About Lindy’s Vision of Unconditional Acceptance

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INSPIRATIONAL! Love the helpful reminders and how-to’s of moving softly into Grace with ease, love and acceptance. Lindy has provided us Type As with another reminder to accept ourselves Quirks and all unconditionally, to embrace ours and other’s You-niqueness and to honor the pause. Being Zentered is my new favorite way of being! Enjoying the Magic in the moment and on a Love Loop high!

- Christine Schader

Certified Financial Planner

ANOTHER NIP &

TUCK FOR WEBSTER

LINDY’S LANGUAGE:

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80HD: The way my son heard his ADHD diagnosis; now a reminder that each beautiful brain interprets so YOU-niquely.

Alpha-demic: A woman who has thrown herself into her schooling, with the goals of external validation and good grades; potentially overshadowing the joy of learning and the value of knowledge gained.

Alpha-fall: Frequent relapses where one forgets to stay in the flow and present; lets self doubt creep in, and generally ‘gets stuck in the muck.’

Alpha-holic: We are who we are, it is our innate personality, this over-acheiving, solution driven, multitasking personality. It’s a beauty but she needs to be softened, with energy on purpose.

Alpha Overdrive: The natural ‘Type A’ speed; steamrolling ahead with no real regard for opinions or reflections; usually exhausting herself.

Black Sheep: Previously considered a misfit or viewed in a negative light, the RAF owns and embraces those things that differentiate her from her family, colleagues, or peers.

Expectations: Resentment in the making.

Faith-forward: Trusting your knowing; choosing to move fearlessly in the direction that inherently calls on a gut level; dharma.

Flow: A beautiful experience when one is so engaged in something fulfilling that it seems to literally flow from a higher plane.

JOMO: Joy of Missing Out.

Magik: Magik in the moment; embracing what’s to come instead of fearing it; in this place of unknown is where the magik happens.

Momentfulness: Being really present, aware, and engaged only in what is happening to the point

that distractions hold no power; leaving one clear and focused.

Munay: Nourishing, all-encompassing love.

Pause: Space; the pause has great power.

Quirks: Colors or peculiar behavioral habits that comprise aspects of that individual’s character

and personality.

RAF (Recovering Alpha Female): One who chooses to soften and allow her beautiful feminine spirit to unfold, transform, and inspire.

Smile: A glow of Grace upon one’s face.

Stuff: Not only physical belongings, but also the thoughts, emotions, values, and expectations

one holds.

Volun-tell, Volun-told: When one person volunteers another for a job, task, or to do something; forcing involvement without asking.

Zenter: A blended word combining Zen and center, a place of quiet to plug into intuition and trust.

So many Woo-Woo Gurus have been pivotal to my journey of moving into Grace. I have partnered with Western, Eastern, and everything-in-between healers. These gurus are Berta Kuhnel, Colleen Russell, Dauray Tannahill, Dr. Louisa Lavy, Elysabeth Williamson, Joan Jackson, Julie Hutslar, Leslie Villeli, Lisa Scoffield, Nicole Hutto, Optimum Health Institute, Peter Mico, Shannon Foley, and Sohini Huguenin.

My Woo-Woo Gurus list wouldn’t be complete without including the wonderful Youngers who have held space as I’ve grown,