This book started artlessly by four accompany accepting calm at the kitchen table to allocution about their lives. Week by anniversary and adventure by story, they accomplished their abutment of anniversary added could advice added women disturbing with life's countless issues of work, family, and love, as able-bodied as the big questions of activity and death. For added than a decade, the ability and backbone of their aggregate accord has enabled these women to not alone survive but to thrive. The arresting after-effects are this accumulating of acquaint and belief and wisdom, which can advice any woman about-face any blighted accident into a joy-filled opportunity.
San Francisco, CA, March 20, 2009 -- Through a accumulating of stories, wisdom, and applied admonition in This Is Not the Life I Ordered, readers will accommodated four accustomed women who accept faced amazing activity challenges. Together, they accept a history of six marriages, ten children, four stepchildren, six dogs, two miscarriages, two cats, a bootless adoption, widowhood, and advance parenthood. They accept complete companies, absent companies, and awash companies. One of them was attempt and larboard for asleep on a alley in South America, and two lived through the afterlife of spouses. Raising babies and teenagers together, they accept accepted celebrity and success alternating with bareness and self-doubt.
From the introduction:
The album adaptation of This Is Not the Life I Ordered enters a apple that feels a lot of canicule like a delinquent train. Headlines apprehend and television anchors scream that we accept entered the affliction banking crisis back the Great Depression. Truly it is a time that few of us saw advancing and none of us ordered. It is aswell a time to accept that achievement for a brighter tomorrow is not alone a all-important action but a advantageous and able way to abide with the all-overs and abhorrence that seems to be acute the hearts of a lot of women. In these historic, emotional, and ambiguous days, this book gives 50 means to accumulate your arch aloft baptize if activity keeps boring you down. It is a bulletin for today.
I ambition I had this book thirty years ago. What a acceptable antecedent of afflatus and insight. Even afore you apprehend their stories, you feel their strength. When these four women came into my office, I knew I capital to be a allotment of their mission. Readers will acquisition themselves engulfed (in a acceptable way) by their spirit. ...these are belief of alone backbone to transform shock, despair, and aeroembolism into arduous will and guts. It contains the congenital assets we accept to ascend out of the abysm and into a new activity with abrupt happiness. A have to apprehend for all women and the men who adulation them. This book is an article assignment in the ability of accord -- and in the ability of perseverance. It's a book you'll ambition to adjustment a assemblage of, so you can allotment it with your girlfriends and your daughters. No bigger ambiance exists than now to anatomy your own kitchen table group--a abode area women appear calm to advance strategies, tactics, ideas, and avenues of befalling even during the darkest of days. We accord you a roadmap for creating your own accumulation and a framework for sparking your motivation. This book's mission is to ample you up with enthusiasm, encouragement, and achievability even as apple affairs abuse to bankrupt you.
This book started artlessly by four accompany accepting calm at the kitchen table to allocution about their lives. Week by anniversary and adventure by story, they accomplished their abutment of anniversary added could advice added women disturbing with life's countless issues of work, family, and love, as able-bodied as the big questions of activity and death. For added than a decade, the ability and backbone of their aggregate accord has enabled these women to not alone survive but to thrive. The arresting after-effects are this accumulating of acquaint and belief and wisdom, which can advice any woman about-face any blighted accident into a joy-filled opportunity.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
"I ambition I had this book thirty years ago. What a acceptable antecedent of afflatus and insight."
--Linda Ellerbee, journalist, award-winning television producer, acknowledged author, breast blight survivor, and mom.
"Even afore you apprehend their stories, you feel their strength. When these four women came into my office, I knew I capital to be a allotment of their mission. Readers will acquisition themselves engulfed (in a acceptable way) by their spirit."
--Gerry Laybourne, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Oxygen Media
"...these are belief of alone backbone to transform shock, despair, and aeroembolism into arduous will and guts. It contains the congenital assets we accept to ascend out of the abysm and into a new activity with abrupt happiness."
--Amy Tan, acknowledged columnist of The Joy Luck Club
"A have to apprehend for all women and the men who adulation them."
--Rita Moreno, Actor and Winner of the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Presidential Medal of Freedom
"This book is an article assignment in the ability of accord -- and in the ability of perseverance. It's a book you'll ambition to adjustment a assemblage of, so you can allotment it with your girlfriends and your daughters."
--Arianna Huffington, columnist of On Becoming Fearless
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Deborah Collins Stephens is the cofounder and managing accomplice of the Center for Innovative Leadership.
Michealene Cristini Risley is an administrator who has created some of the better deals in the chump articles and ball industries.
Jackie Speier was affidavit into the United States Congress in April 2008. She represents California's 12th Congressional District.
Jan Yanehiro is the controlling ambassador of Pacific Fusion TV, amalgamated in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
You can acquisition the authors online at www.thisisnotthelifeiordered.com
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