Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve
Discover the Seven Best Gifts You Can Give Yourself
Queen of Your Own Life is a philosophy, a decision and an invitation to happiness for women who have made the tough but rewarding journey to the midpoint in their lives. Kathy Kinney (best known as Mimi on The Drew Carey Show) and Cindy Ratzlaff (marketing genius behind the launch of The South Beach Diet) have been best friends for more than thirty years, and have helped each other navigate the ups and downs of their lives with humor and grace.
In this entertaining and inspiring book, they share the tried-and-true techniques they call "the seven best gifts a woman can give herself." They reveal how they learned to value themselves just the way they are—women in full bloom, sensual, vibrant, wise and more beautiful than ever—and they’ll show you how you can, too.
With these seven gifts you’ll discover how to:
• Claim your beauty and feel your power
• Clean your mental closet and find your queen voice
• Admire yourself for who you’ve become
• Build deep, fulfilling friendships with other women
• Establish firm boundaries that will strengthen all your relationships
• Learn the simple trick to finally being happy
• Place the crown firmly on your head
With humor, comfort and inspiration, Queen of Your Own Life offers easy step-by-step actions to blast away at the societal tall tale that young is beautiful and old is just old. If you’ve been feeling that the best part of your life may be behind you, then this book will prove to you just how untrue that is, and that the door to being happy is not only never closed, but just waiting for you to fling it open. Remember, you don’t have to be twenty to have your whole life ahead of you. Now is the time to become Queen of Your Own Life!
I have been reading a lot of heavy books lately, and while they are all wonderful, this book was an awesome change of pace. It was so much fun! Uplifting! Just something I think all of us women need (and need to do).
You’ll know Kathy Kinney from her role as Mimi on Drew Carey, and a variety of others. Her and Cindy Ratzlaff were friends who while on vacation decided they needed to queen up. (I totally had to throw that in. I love that phrase now!)
I’m 35 now. I’m kind of at the in-between stage of life. I can’t really call myself young (honestly, I still think of myself as young until a 17 year old cashier calls me ma’am. Where’s my mother? Oh you mean me!) but I don’t consider myself young. I catch myself wishing I was 23 again, back before 4 kids, when the body was a tad tighter, the wrinkles hadn’t started appearing yet, and Nice & Easy covered a strand of gray hair with ease.
Now at 35 with 4 kids, I catch myself analyzing my skin when I’m putting on make-up, cursing my hair color that won’t cover gray for more than a couple of weeks, and bemoaning the fact that I still haven’t gotten rid of the pooch from child number 2, 3, and 4. I obsess over creams, cleansers, foundations, primers, concealers. If someone could tell me why my make up now looks powdery on my face when it didn’t when I was younger and I slather myself in moisturizer all the time, I’d love to know. (Yes, I’ve tried different brands.)
This over analyzing, worrying, kicking our own selves when we’re down, that’s what Queen of Your Own Life
They came up with steps to take charge of their lives, go after the happiness they wanted, stopped beating themselves up, learned how to say no, and really came to know themselves a lot better. They did this in a way that was witty, light hearted, but also serious.
The easy part was reading the book. Now comes to the hard part. Taking those tips and applying it to myself. It sounds so easy, but when you’re confronting the person who probably tears you down the most (yourself) it’s never easy. The tips are so wonderful! I’m going to print out my declaration to type on my mirror after I decorate it, digiscrapper style, because that’s how I roll!
I’m excited to dive in and start doing these things because no one is a harsher critic of me then me. I need to stop and be my biggest supporter.
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Thank you to FSB Media for sending me a copy of Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve
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This sounds like a book I could certainly use – just this morning I told my husband that my belly is finally bigger than my boobs (I had four children as well and am now 55)! It would probably be easier to get implants than it would be to get rid of the belly! Or I could just embrace it until I get up the energy to exercise!
Thanks for the review.
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