Where Do We Get on the Guilt Train?
HEALING: OWNING YOUR OWN EXCELLENCE
BEYOND FEAR: TRANSFORMING THE DRAGONS
Living and Loving from Overflow
Thinking Is the Birth of Feeling
What You Think You Are, You Will Become
Developing into a Healthy Thinker
Positive Self-Talk Affirmations
Creating Your Own Affirmations
Risk: Taking Responsibility and Making Creative Choices
Speaking Out Without Blowing Up
Tools for Constructive Communication
Honoring What We Want and Need
BEING A LOVING AND ACCEPTING FRIEND TO YOURSELF
Accepting and Bestowing Support
The Art of Emotional Maintenance
Honoring Your Past, Present, and Potential
INTRODUCTION TO THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
SHARING THE JOURNEY
My heart swells with gratitude as I revisit The Courage to Be Yourself, to revise and update it for this Tenth Anniversary Edition. I'm grateful for all the people who from the very beginning encouraged me to write when I didn't have a clue how to begin or the confidence to believe that I had anything worthwhile to say. And most of all I'm grateful to the women who have read the book and, in doing so, have given it a life of its own.
Receiving letters and talking with these readers has been a continual and invaluable reminder to me that no matter how diverse we may seem, women share very similar journeys. In essence, we want and need to gather the courage to be whom we were born to be.
As is often the case, we teach what we most need to learn, and that was certainly true for me in
