Shine From Within

Shine from Within is exactly what teenage girls are looking for to help them navigate their teens with a positive, fresh take on self image and overall wellbeing. Amanda Rootsey brings a wealth of experience from her own teenage years and from her work mentoring teenage girls. This book is fun and relatable. If you’ve been looking for an inspirational gift for your daughters, grand-daughters, nieces, or a special teen girl, Shine From Within is the perfect choice. Every teenager deserves to be validated, accepted and to have strong self-esteem to ensure they build positive, healthy relationships with their peers, family and friends. This book is packed full of practical advice. It includes: * Steps to gain more self-confidence * Fun, inspiring breakout quotes * Relatable mini-stories from real teens * Tips for job interviews * Self-care tips using eco-friendly, natural ingredients * Fashion advice for every body shape * Etiquette for different social situations Shine From Within will help any teenager to navigate through these years with confidence and joy.

"You shine so bright, as you are right now, flaws and faults entirely." The debut book from the rising Instagram writer Walk the Earth offers a remarkable collection of poetry in the form of letters to touch your heart and inspire boundless hope. Nikki Banas speaks directly to your soul with every letter she writes. She reminds you of the light you already hold within and teaches you how to nourish your flame. In Shine from Within, she encourages you to celebrate your own beautiful spirit because only when we all shine our unique lights can we light up the entire night sky.

An instant New York Times bestseller Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this knockout debut about a Korean American teen who is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung, K-pop legend and former lead singer of one of the most influential K-pop girl groups of all time, Girls’ Generation. What would you give for a chance to live your dreams? For seventeen-year-old Korean American Rachel Kim, the answer is almost everything. Six years ago, she was recruited by DB Entertainment—one of Seoul’s largest K-pop labels, known for churning out some of the world’s most popular stars. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don’t date. Easy, right? Not so much. As the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful girls begin to bubble up, Rachel wonders if she’s strong enough to be a winner, or if she’ll end up crushed… Especially when she begins to develop feelings for K-pop star and DB golden boy Jason Lee. It’s not just that he’s charming, sexy, and ridiculously talented. He’s also the first person who really understands how badly she wants her star to rise. Get ready as Jessica Jung, K-pop legend and former lead singer of Korea’s most famous girl group, Girls’ Generation, takes us inside the luxe, hyper-color world of K-pop, where the stakes are high, but for one girl, the cost of success—and love—might be even higher. It’s time for the world to see: this is what it takes to shine.

Do you want to live a life of fulfillment and abundance? Do you want to discover the potential within yourself and unleash it into the world? Do you like to learn from the experiences and insights of others who have walked the path of self-discovery and growth? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Shine from Within is a remarkable collection of 28 articles touching every facet of life’s journey. Each article is a guiding light, offering practical advice, actionable steps, and inspiring stories that will help you navigate the challenges and opportunities of life. You’ll learn how to build confidence, resilience, and purpose, foster connections that enrich your life, and achieve abundance. Here is an invitation to a brighter, more purposeful tomorrow.

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“Rachel Macy Stafford's post "The Day I Stopped Saying Hurry Up" was a true phenomenon on The Huffington Post, igniting countless conversations online and off about freeing ourselves from the vicious cycle of keeping up with our overstuffed agendas. Hands Free Mama has the power to keep that conversation going and remind us that we must not let our lives pass us by.” --Arianna Huffington, Chair, President, and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ DISCOVER THE POWER, JOY, AND LOVE of Living “Hands Free” If technology is the new addiction, then multi-tasking is the new marching order. We check our email while cooking dinner, send a text while bathing the kids, and spend more time looking into electronic screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. With our never-ending to-do lists and jam-packed schedules, it’s no wonder we’re distracted. But this isn’t the way it has to be. In July 2010, special education teacher and mother Rachel Macy Stafford decided enough was enough. Tired of losing track of what matters most in life, Rachel began practicing simple strategies that enabled her to momentarily let go of largely meaningless distractions and engage in meaningful soul-to-soul connections. She started a blog to chronicle her endeavors and soon saw how both external and internal distractions had been sabotaging her happiness and preventing her from bonding with the people she loves most. Hands Free Mama is the digital society’s answer to finding balance in a media-saturated, perfection-obsessed world. It doesn’t mean giving up all technology forever. It doesn’t mean forgoing our jobs and responsibilities. What it does mean is seizing the little moments that life offers us to engage in real and meaningful interaction. It means looking our loved ones in the eye and giving them the gift of our undivided attention, leaving the laundry till later to dance with our kids in the rain, and living a present, authentic, and intentional life despite a world full of distractions. So join Rachel and go hands-free. Discover what happens when you choose to open your heart—and your hands—to the possibilities of each God-given moment.

shine is a guidebook for self-discovery and identity to help you find yourself, know yourself, and BE yourself! i like to think that your light is made up of many colours (like a rainbow) or facets (like a chandelier) or twinkling little bulbs all in a row... in other words, you contain multitudes! there is so much to who you are, and who you are is brilliant and unique and inherently enough... i promise you this. this guidebook has no author named on the cover because YOU are the author. this is the book of YOU and with it you will explore 21 themes and questions, along with inspiring messages, powerful lessons, and helpful strategies to help you learn about you. if you have felt like... you've lost your self, or want to embrace and honour yourself more deeply, or feel like you are ready to explore new layers of who you are here to be, or have experienced a change or period of stuckness in life and want to find yourself again, or wish to give yourself permission to be authentically you, or need to build your confidence, self-worth, and self-belief... this is the guidebook for you!

After captivating thousands of readers to embrace their own unique light in "Shine from Within", Nikki Banas returns with her much anticipated second collection of letters in "Along the Way" to inspire boundless light throughout every journey.You will embark on countless unique, life-changing, and transformative journeys throughout your life. Some will last a lifetime and some just a season. Some of them will begin by complete surprise and others will be carefully planned out and measured from the beginning. Some paths you will wish you could walk forever and some you will wish came to an end much sooner. Some will be full of wonderful highs and others will test your strength and courage through its lows. Whether the path you are on right now is easy or difficult, whether it is clear or foggy, whether you are trekking alone or with others, know that there is always, always, so much light, love, magic, and wonder to be found all along the way. So keep your eyes wide, your heart open, and allow yourself to experience all of the beautiful things this life has to offer along the way.