Your Life by Design

By Jane Adams

Your Life by Design, A journey of gratitude and journaling exercises that will change your life is designed to do just that.

 

Its not just another ordinary gratitude book, instead it will take you on a journey to retrain your mind to find things to be grateful for and to look for the positives in everything.This amazing journal was born from my own soul searching journey from depressed and anxious to now, where I live the most amazing life.

 

Along the way I discovered what worked and what didn't and this book includes all the things that you need to help you release stress, worry and anxiety in an easy way, which in turn brings happiness and joy back into your life - just writing a list each morning isn't enough despite what you might have been told.

 

This book and the exercises included are so easy to use and to incorporate into your life. And if you do them, you will feel happier, less stuck, much more grateful and things then in turn become easy.

 

Once you change your mindset, you literally change everything.

 

Because if you focus on the good, great things happen and as a roll on effect you become aware of more and more amazing things in your life.

 

Start where you are right now, start bringing positive changes into your life by using this book, start living your life by design right now and rewire your brain so that gratitude and happiness become your default setting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jane Adams
• Release date: Mar 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201342517

Jane Adams

Jane Adams has spent over two decades researching and reporting on how Americans live, work, and love, and especially how they respond to social change. A frequent media commentator, she has appeared on every major radio and television program. The author of eight nonfiction books and three novels, she is a talented communicator, and an expert in managing personal, professional and family boundaries, dealing with grown children, coping with change, and balancing life and work. A graduate of Smith College, Jane Adams holds a Ph.D. in social psychology and has studied at Seattle Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Washington, D.C. Psychoanalytic Foundation. She has been an award-winning journalist, a founding editor of the Seattle Weekly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington. She is the recipient of the Family Advocate of the Year award from “Changes,” an organization devoted to improving relationships between parents and adolescent children.

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A bit about me and why I created this journal

Hi I'm Jane x

I believe it was always my life's purpose to create the life for myself that I dreamed about living as a child, one where I got to create my own destiny and not one where I had to conform to the 9 - 5.

I suppose you could say that I was always a dreamer. I didn't want to fit inside the box and I certainly didn't want to work for someone else for the majority of my life and then have nothing to show for it in retirement.

But that said, I didn't always have this life that I have now, I didn't have the tools or the strategies or the confidence even to live even a mediocre life never mind a high vibe amazing one.

So I want to start this journal by giving you a quick snapshot of my life and experiences so you can see how far I have come and how far you can go to......

I was born and raised in the UK, my mum died when I was just 7 and although my dad remarried 2 years later I was already extremely emotionally damaged by this point.

School was hard and I struggled with weight issues and self-esteem, suffered countless bullying about my weight and name calling such as thunder thighs. I was a massive emotional eater, eating to feel better, getting fatter, feeling worse so eating to feel better - and so it went round and around.

After losing the weight some years later I then developed an eating disorder which hampered my life for a long, long time, causing a deep depression and at my absolute rock bottom there were many times I just wanted to end everything and so very nearly did on a few occasions.

I did however manage to pick myself up, dust myself off and live, if that’s what you could call it, in some state of semi normal the best I could without any outside help, keeping myself shut away from the world and any emotions and hardly living except to go to school, and later work, and the rest of the time sitting in my bedroom where I felt safe and secure.

By some miracle I did meet and later marry my husband Steve during this time and we made the decision together some years later to move away from the UK and start a new life for ourselves away from the influences and reminders of the life I had, I guess you could say I was running away hoping that things would change.

They didn't, if anything running away from my issues just