Becoming Change: A Journal for Mind, Spirit, and Body

By Francesca Russo

Change is a natural phenomenon; how you choose to experience change is up to you. Tears can open your heart wider, allowing room for self-love, happiness, and forgiveness. Changing old patterns allows new opportunities you never thought possible. Life is an amazing journey, and change can be a patient guide along your path. Becoming Change is a workbook to support you through the process of transition and change. Read it as often as you need, flip through it and find the perfect page, or use it as a daily journal. Each brief topic is designed to inspire and encourage your response. When you come to the end, go back and see how much you have changed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Mar 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504348430

Francesca Russo

Throughout her life, Francesca has journaled her feelings, her emotions, her solutions. She has lived change, from owning a destination restaurant to following the call for inner peace. Letting go of all possessions, she moved to a new community. Penniless, she traded work for a place to live and collected cans for gas. Now she lives her passion—helping others on their life’s journey. Spirituality has followed Francesca since childhood: dreams with visions, out-of-body traveling, and feeling others’ emotions. Connections with spirits led to training in shamanism, yoga therapy, meditation, crystal healing, cranial sacral and lymphatic therapy. It is through these studies that Francesca has successfully helped herself and hundreds of others change their lives.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 03/02/2016

Contents

About Becoming Change

Dedication

On Being

Transition

Open Your Heart to Others

Your Body

Lost Keys

Playfulness

Live With Wonder

Giving

The Dance of Fear

The Ways Of Your Body

Look and Listen

Fear of Trusting

Look Within Yourself

Are You Afraid to Trust? 1

You Have All You Need

Self Trust 2

Push Or Pull

Intuition 1

Create Your Sacred Space

Practice Listening 2

How Do You Envision Your Life?

When You Ignore Your Body

Releasing

Stretch Your Comfort Zone

Feeling Depleted

Self-Love

Dispassion

On Life

Fake It

Those Repetitive Agitations

Remember To Breathe 1

How to Breathe 2

Utilizing Your Breath 3

Breathe Space Around You

Your Choices

Recreating Your Movement

Be Gentle

High Five

Call In What You Desire, Push Away What You Don’t

You Have Enough

Some Days

Self Love

Self-Motivation

Rainbows

Look Up

Today

Movement

Know Your Personality

Self Love

House Keeping

Wherever You Go

Bending With the Wind

Closet Therapy

Allow Transformation

New Life

A Knowing

First Step

Celebrate You

Compassion

Alone or Lonely

Question Lethargy

Imagine

Be Courageous

Notice

Change With Integrity

Compassion’s Roots

Do for You

Live How You Want the World to Be

Be Playful

Be Here Now

Take that Extra Moment

Focus

Quench Compulsive Desire

Mirror, Mirror On the Wall

Who’s in Charge Here?

Sharing

Personal Empowerment

Envy

Calm, the Eye of Chaos

Practice Being Calm

Create Sacred Space

Mindless Habit

Your Inner Light

Excuses

Live a Content Life

Kindness

Self-Kindness

Again With the Mirror

Criticizing Others

Fear of Giving

Natural Cycles

Beyond Judgment

Move Forward With Your Life

What You Eat Helps You Heal

What You Say

Take a Walk

Signs

Words are a Signpost

The Best Made Decisions

Values

Be An Example

Be Comfortable With Who You Are

You Are Unique

Believe in Your Greatness

Change Requires Letting Go

Surround Yourself With Support

Beyond Media

Silence and Simplicity

Effortlessness

Mind Blocks

Precipice

Embrace Fear

Smile!

Time Alone

Worry

Remember and Appreciate

Work In Progress

Stay Alert

Practice Breathing

Breathe and Detach

Be Resourceful

Living in Transition

The Time In Between

The One You Are Waiting For

Do You Enjoy Eating?

When Do You Eat?

The Effects of Food

Stay With Change

Be Kind

New Beginnings ~ Old Ends

Getting Sick

Steadfastness

Procrastination

Your Inner Voice

The Slump After an Emotional High

On Being Free

Out Of Control

Lies

Self-Reliance

Unhealthy Patterns

Take Time to Feel

Control

Surround Yourself

Tough Love

Your Greatest Ally is Fear

Good vs. Bad Fears

Live Life in Balance with Nature

Find A Tree

Good Food Takes Time

Create a Feast

Live Dangerously!

A Dinner Party

It’s All About Me

Unhealthy Patterns

The Courageous Leap of Change

On Change

Living on The Edge

Visualize

Living and Trusting

Joy and Grace