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    Stepping out of It All…: A Guide to Recovery from Life Concerns
    Stepping out of It All…: A Guide to Recovery from Life Concerns
    Stepping out of It All…: A Guide to Recovery from Life Concerns
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    Stepping out of It All…: A Guide to Recovery from Life Concerns

    By A. Woman

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    Stepping Out of It All. A Guide to Recovery From Life Concerns is a book designed to help people to get through and over the things in their lives that prevent them from attaining their personal best. It is a quasi-autobiography that highlights the challenges and successes of a woman who has found a way to recover from a number of issues, problems and life concerns that seemed insurmountable. The book is about change why and how to change. It is about the recovery process and the guidelines that make recovery from anything possible. It is a book that leads the reader to do personal introspection and reflection, and seek ways to make personal changes based on the things that they find in that search. The book is about finding a new way to live / think / be / act, about pursuing better living.
    Stepping Out of It All. A Guide to Recovery From Life Concerns is a womans personal journey and her ability to move out of an ordinary existence and find the extra-ordinary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 5, 2012
    ISBN9781469181639
    Stepping out of It All…: A Guide to Recovery from Life Concerns
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    A. Woman

    A Woman is a 52-year old native New Yorker who grew up in Queens, NY. She attended NYC public schools from elementary to high school, and attained her undergraduate and graduate degrees from various City University of New York (CUNY) institutions. She is proud to be a successful product of the undervalued public education systems. A Woman is an Educator, a licensed Social Work practitioner, and a long-term social service administrator. A Woman has had many challenges and struggles throughout her lifetime, but she believes that she was strengthened and developed, not by the numerous falls that she experienced, but by the ability to get back up despite the circumstances and try again. A Woman is divorced and has one son. Her son, she believes, is her greatest work, and that he is a testament that single mothers can raise children successfully and lead them toward a life of greatness – despite the odds. She believes that “It takes a village…”, and in her heart, she’s certain that during her challenges, it was God and The Village who stood in the gap until she was able to stand on her own. This is A Woman’s first published work.

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      Stepping out of It All… - A. Woman

      Copyright © 2012 by A. Woman.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2012904415

      ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-8162-2

                         Softcover                                 978-1-4691-8161-5

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4691-8163-9

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      Contents

      DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER

      FOREWORD

      WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS…

      HOW I GOT TO HERE…

      WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WAS…

      HOW THE TRANSFORMATION BEGAN…

      HOW RECOVERY PRINCIPLES TRANSFORM ME

      AFTER THOUGHT…

      FINAL THOUGHTS…

      DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER

      Mom, I never thought that I could become who I am, think like I think, or have the incredible ability to do what I do. I never would have made it without your loving support and never-ending encouragement. I never could have made it without you… !

      This book is dedicated to my mother, Juanita, who was, by far, my biggest fan and perpetual supporter. She sincerely loved me far more than I loved myself, constantly told me that I could do anything that I put my mind to, and took great care of me until the day she died. My Mom believed that I was exceptionally talented, brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary, special—long before I recognized or believed in my own gifts, talents, strengths and abilities. Because of her belief in me, I am self-assured and confident. I am blessed with substance, integrity, vision, power and purpose. I am a woman blessed with untold strength. I am much more than I could have imagined!

      Mom, thank you for your guidance, for all the needed care, and for loving me in ways that I couldn’t even see.

      God, thank you for your Love, and for the unmerited Grace and Mercy that covered me. Thank you for ordering my steps according to Your Will and purpose for me. And thank you for helping me to see Your Hand in every thing that I do.

      This book is a reality because of these things!

      —A. Woman

      Make the most of yourself. For that is all there is of you.

      —Emerson

      FOREWORD

      I have put together all of the information that I could think of, to provide you with a basic guide to help you with any thing that gets in the way of your greatness. I assure you, it will help you in ways that you cannot imagine, in this moment… .

      I wrote this book because I felt compelled to tell my story to help others. It makes no sense to have learned so much, and then, to keep such significant life lessons to myself. I began this work in 2008, a year after my mother passed away. I was not inspired to write again until New Year’s Day of 2011. It is 2012, and I am motivated to finish what I started… I am writing to share insight, countless lessons, revelations, spiritual awakenings and inspiring moments that changed the course of my life journey.

      I have been so many different versions of myself—The Teenaged Me, The Me of my Twenties, of my Thirties, my Forties, and now, the 50’s-version of Me. And right now, I am the best that I have ever been. I feel like I am finally becoming A Woman in and of myself. I have gone through quite a lot in my life, and have had quite a broad range of ways that I’ve thought about life, people, things, about stuff. I have experienced radical transformations of my philosophies, my values, my core beliefs, perspectives and views. Change just keeps happening, and as change occurs, every thing that concerns me changes, as well. Sometimes, change happened without my permission. Sometimes, it was a conscious effort to produce changes that were necessary. Today, I try to embrace change as it comes, as it is so much less painful to embrace it than it is to fight against the inevitability of change.

      _________________________________________________________

      I have self-loathed and self-loved. I’ve had a sense of superiority to some, and felt irrationally inferior to others—during my intermittent battles with low self-esteem. I’ve valued no thing, and had times when I was full of gratitude about every thing. I’ve been suicidal and homicidal, at times; sometimes, both—at the same time. I have loved and lost and loved again. I’ve lost love and was left with no one to love but me. And I didn’t.

      I’ve been self-righteous, and then, humiliated by egotistical pride and arrogance. I’ve been miraculously lifted out of devastatingly horrific circumstances, and brought back to life like the phoenix from the ashes. I’ve been so low, and was forced to seek a way to get out. I have heard a Quiet Voice in the still of the night, and acted like it was not a message to me. I’ve ignored the things I knew were done to get my undivided attention. I’ve been deeply hurt by unanticipated life disappointments; yet now, I’m grateful for those experiences because they shaped me, molded me, made me who I am today. I am grateful to have learned what I learned from all my life lessons; to have come to a place where I embrace my life for all it’s been and for what it is. Now, I recognize wholly that my present life is the sum total of all of those moments: of all the extraordinary and ridiculous choices; of every thought, every failure, every success, every hurt, every tear, every joy, of every decision that I’ve made. I have learned that it was all necessary. I have learned to embrace it all. It was all good. It is all good.

      And now, after all the living, after all the decisions, after all of the substantial life changes that I’d gone through, just when I thought that my life just wasn’t enough, another change happened while I wasn’t paying attention. I started thinking about my life—that it was getting shorter by the minute, and that I was wasting my time here, my minutes, obsessing over and being consumed by the most ridiculous nonsense. I had read somewhere or heard on some talk show that I have the choice to be sad and dissatisfied or to be happy and grateful. I have the choice to be happy and joyous from the inside. I have the choice to forego the obsession over men, money, menopause, moods, my mid-section, and other stuff that instantaneously takes my attention hostage. I have a choice. I can decide how I want to live. I can decide how I want to be. I can decide that I am worth more than anything else in my life. I can choose to love myself, and am responsible for treating myself as though I love myself. I can choose to believe that I am enough, that I am more

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