Follow Your Bliss

Lead a life full of passion and confidence with Follow Your Bliss, an amazing collection of empowering words of wisdom from 60 influential, trailblazing women that will guide you through your day. Do you wish you had a big sister or a have-it-all-together kind of friend to give you some encouraging advice on your next big move? Are you trying to find the right words to inspire a loved one? Follow your Bliss features timeless wisdom to inspire at every stage in life, whether you’re a recent graduate, transitioning into a new stage in your life, or just looking to encourage someone else. Spark bravery, joy, and clarity into your life while fostering a community of sisterhood and comradery with these powerful words. Whether you’re looking for advice on your career, self-love, happiness, gratitude, positivity, embracing change, or paying it forward, you’ll discover that a little encouragement is all you need to lead a life of purpose and fulfillment. Some of the trailblazers who will be inspiring you throughout the book include: Amanda Lepore, transgender model, singer, and performance artist Sharon Isbin, Grammy Award–winning classical guitarist and the founding director of the guitar department at the Juilliard School Lauren Singer, environmental activist, entrepreneur, and blogger in the zero-waste movement You’ll be able to easily flip through each gorgeous chapter and find aspirational quotes or advice as quick reminders to yourself to get out there and make the most of your life. Read it from front to back, backward, or flip through aimlessly until you find what you’re looking for. Follow Your Bliss is your on-the-go friend to help you power through the day with potent nuggets of motivation. Words of encouragement and inspiration from women around the world come together in the Everyday Inspiration series from Rock Point. Follow the journeys of hundreds of strong female leaders from past to present through thoughtful biographies and empowering quotes, and receive advice for how to live a more thoughtful and fulfilling life overall through performing acts of kindness for other or various methods of self-care. The perfect gift for family and friends, these gorgeous hardcovers featuring foiled covers and full-color interiors bring these amazing words of wisdom to life. Other titles in the series include: Grit & Grace; Find Your Glow, Feed Your Soul; Beautifully Said; Find Your Calm; and Hello Gorgeous!

'I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYES Professor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime. In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra begins to reassess his life, his career and his relationship with his three children. He’s just missed out on the Nobel Prize (again). All this work. All this stress. It's killing him. Professor Chandra needs to take a break, and reluctantly agrees to visit a Californian retreat, to follow his bliss. And so he must try to crack the most complex problem of all: the secret to his own happiness

Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as ''other people's religion.'' But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment - or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic bestselling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from Campbell's popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable storytelling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Here he anchors mythology's symbolic wisdom to the individual, applying the most poetic mythical metaphors to the challenges of our daily lives. Campbell dwells on life's important questions. Combining cross-cultural stories with the teachings of modern psychology, he examines the ways in which our myths shape and enrich our lives. He explores the many insights of Carl Jung; the notion of self as the hero; and how East and West differ in their approaches to the ego. The book also includes an extensive question-and-answer session that ranges from mythological readings of the Bible to how the Hero's Journey unfolds for women. With his usual wit and insight, Campbell draws connections between ancient symbols and modern art, schizophrenia and the Hero's Journey. Along the way, he shows how myth can help each of us truly identify and follow our bliss.

Life is too short to be spent at a job that holds no personal value—or, in the worst-case scenario, a job that evokes apathy, misery, or contempt. And yet, many of us feel painfully insecure about our abilities to find meaning and satisfaction in work. Everyone deserves that joy and satisfaction, but many people behave as though they don’t deserve it. In Follow Your Bliss!, author Haley Fox shows that you deserve more than just a job. You deserve bliss, and you have the potential to achieve it. You have an obligation to use the gifts and talents that uniquely equip you for soul-nourishing work. This second edition, first published in 2000 under the author’s former name, Helen Nienhaus Barba, has been updated and expanded, offering more current information about the working world. This volume journeys through the entire job-seeking process, beginning with getting a lay of the land, then taking stock of who you are and what you have to offer, and finally acquiring the skills to master the nuts and bolts of job hunting. Topics include preparing a portfolio of application materials, goal-setting, and fine-tuning interview skills. Imaginative exercises offer practical guidance grounded in an awareness of bliss as a guiding force. Drawing upon years of experience as an artist and psychotherapist, Fox offers a unique, heart-based, antichecklist approach to career-life planning.

Let your spirit soar with colors using these 30 empowering illustrations.

A guidebook for discovering how heartbreak can become the doorway to profound meaning and joy from the bestselling co-creator of the Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Series In 2006, after building the bestselling franchise Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff with her husband Richard, Kristine Carlson faced a shattering loss—the sudden death of her beloved spouse. Woven together with the remarkable stories of others’ loss and recovery, her deeply moving story reveals a clear process of healing that is common to everyone and goes far beyond ordinary prescriptions for getting through hard times. In her new book, From Heartbreak to Wholeness, Kristine offers a life-altering map for navigating the heroic journey from loss to joy—one that ultimately awakens readers to a deep love affair with life. Every day, people suffer heartbreaks of some kind—loss of a loved one, divorce, illness, loss of a job or home—and seek to understand why these losses and traumas have befallen them and how they’ll make it through in one piece. For readers who have endured loss of any kind, Kristine takes them by the hand, showing them how to traverse their own jagged edge of growth and emerge as the hero whole, happy, and empowered. Each chapter of From Heartbreak to Wholeness includes powerful exercises in self-inquiry and reflection, along with step-by-step guidance for writing one’s own heroic story of healing. Journey with Kristine Carlson and learn how you can walk the path from heartbreak to wholeness.

If you knew how to turn on "Happy" at any time, you'd spend your entire life just feeling good. The technique is simple and unforgettable.This book is not a typical self-help book. It is profound, funny, and can instantly shift your perspectives and behavior in all areas of your life. I call it the Happiness Trifecta: Clarity. Joy. Mental Fitness. You will no longer struggle wishing conditions were different. You will navigate to better choices and relationships when you Follow Your Bliss, Not Your Blisters.The happiness I speak of is not a mood or a mercurial emotion. It's a foundation and character trait on which you build your future. It becomes your True North, your guide and soul whisperer. Even when I am sad over an event, my core is strong and happy and resilient.Happiness is not shallow. It is the deepest form of humanity you can offer yourself and others. You deserve a lifetime of happiness You are just a few thoughts and an "Aha!" away. Life is supposed to feel good. Don't settle for less.The whole purpose of your life is the evolution of you. Follow Your Bliss, Not Your Blisters is your companion guide on that personal journey. Live with more joy than pain and a greater purpose than simply aging into a seemingly compromised future. So many of us are sitting back waiting for things to come to us and complaining about our lives and the other people in them. Our thoughts are rampant and untamed. When we understand where they come from and how they limit us, we become wise with a whole new set of skills to navigate the waters to the land of "What I Really Want." There is such a place. If you can imagine it, you can live it. To raise your consciousness is to increase your grand potential. The secret to happiness is being in control of how you feel regardless of conditions. Freedom and joy are just an "Aha!" away. To live a life you love is to recognize that happiness is an inside job. The happiness most people think about is the carrot on the stick kind. "If you buy me this, I'll be happy. When I have kids, I'll be happy. When the kids get out, then we'll be happy again." I call that kind of thinking "If Consciousness," dependent upon conditions outside ourselves, giving control of our mood over to others. We must understand why we think the way we think, act the way we do, and have what we have or don't have. Once there is clarity, there can be happiness. Once you know how to navigate the trail to happy, you will finally know freedom. And power. And joy.Happiness is our destiny, but we often bump against reasons and obstacles for why we can't achieve it in our lives. This book is a "happ" for that."Shift" happens.Wishing you every happiness.