Courage and Grace: From Broken to Blissful, The Journey of Building Joy During Your Recovery from Abuse

by Unize, NÃra Bean Mhic Dhonnchadha (Editor)

Overview

You want the freedom that comes from controlling your life. You also crave joy in life; the type only achieved when you accept and learn to love and honour yourself.

You can achieve ALL these goals with the newest release from Susan Ball; Courage And Grace. Based on her personal experience and practical coaching she leads women recovering from domestic violence, to discover their courage and embrace their grace. In her book, she guides you on your continuing healing journey, to move you from the place of feeling broken to an empowered, healed woman, who embraces the blissful life she has created for herself.

This book is built around a very clear, concept: Surviving is not enough! If you have always craved more, follow Susan as she guides you to grow, stepping into the life you create as a strong, thriving, and valued individual.

It's not just about moving from the level of a victim, or survivor, to thriver. You have the right to a great life and by learning to believe in, embrace, and love yourself, warts and all, is the foundation of Susan’s Broken to Blissful program. When you leave the victim'hood behind and embrace your goals and aspirations, you change and so does your life.

This book covers the crucial steps to be taken to support and rediscover your dreams, reclaim your goals, and finally rejecting the notion that being a survivor is as good as it gets. It isn’t. If you’re craving more from your life today, it’s time to step into your courage. Your only risk is success. There is no advantage to staying stuck in the victim'hood. If you're feeling the need to grow, change, or just be more, this book will give you back the grace that was always in you.

In Courage And Grace, you'll find the bases covered, giving you everything you need to know to rediscover the woman you were born to be. And, you’ll learn you are much more than you’ve been told. Now it's time to embrace who you really are. Recover your tough, smart, resourceful, and strong blissful thriver, and create a life far and above the victim’hood you have endured until now.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780994025791
Publisher:	FORT MAY Corp.
Publication date:	06/07/2017
Series:	Courage and Grace , #1
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Susan Ball is the founder & CEO of Broken to Blissful™. She is an author and sought-after international speaker, sharing her message of building joy on the journey from victim to survivor to thriver. She brings her experience, insights, and proven strategies to her work much to her clients' delight.
In a nutshell, Susan helps women heal. Whether a woman is in need of support following a divorce or toxic relationship or recovering from an abusive relationship, Susan welcomes everyone and works with them using the tools and concepts from her ground-breaking book: Courage and Grace, From Broken to Blissful, The Journey of Building Joy During Your Recovery From Abuse
Susan is a regular contributor to LifeGrid, Huffington Post, and Thrive magazines. She lives joyfully ensconced with her soul mate, off the grid, snug at Tiny Wrecky House on Canada's Atlantic coast.
Susan graduated with Honours from the University of Toronto and holds a B.A. with majors in Anthropology and Aboriginal Studies. Susan co-founded the Aboriginal Research Organization mandated to research and document tribal family lineage in support of land claims. Her work often took her to remote First Nations communities where she was a respected researcher and liaison between the community, the media, and the government. Her paper on Connecting Historical Oral Life Stories with Current Life Strategies was published in the Journal of Anthropology.
As a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Susan is recognised as a multi-million-dollar fundraising professional. Raising funds in support of youth, homelessness, women's issues, and food security, Susan collaborated with Farley Flex and Michael Pinball Clemons to maximise funds raised. She successfully pursued and established mutually beneficial relationships with the Toronto Maple Leaf's, Toronto Raptors, Blue Jays, and Marlies. In combination, with developed media relationships, Susan ensured that all fundraising events were well publicised and attended.
Susan continuously updates her skills. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, Reiki Practitioner and Indigenous Justice Circle Facilitator.

Born and raise on Toronto's Urban Rez, Sheryl struck out at the tender age of sixteen to find her path. In those early days, she worked as a roving studio photographer, traveling all over the country including the far north. As a Militia Trooper, she completed several full-time postings with the Canadian Forces, plus a tour as a Peacekeeper on the Golan Heights. In between those temporary postings, she tried her hand at several other jobs from selling cars to flipping houses, all with one goal: To save enough money for Fight School. "I was determined to learn to fly, and I wouldn't let anything stop me." By age 25 she had her tuition, studying aviation at the American Flyers Academy in Florida, while also completing an Electrical Engineering degree in her spare time. Her flight experience includes Canadian Airlines, Bearskin Airlines, and Her Majesty's Canadian Armed Forces, in which she served as both a member and a junior officer.

After a lengthy flying career, she suffered a serious health challenge and on October 13, 1999, she was clinically dead. While successfully resuscitated by the heroic efforts of the Nursing staff, this would not be her only Near Death Experience during this crisis. "No one sees a life challenge coming. How you face these trials forge your character. An NDE is the ultimate wake-up call. In the aftermath, I awoke with a new desire...write, write for others, share the journey, and mentor others to do the same."

Table of Contents

Contents Dedication 6 Foreword 7 Why You Need to Read This Book 10 Surviving is Not Thriving! 10 Introduction 16 You Are Not Alone 16 The Victim Story 20 This Is Why I Do What I Do! 21 Chapter One 23 Finding Your Courage 23 Courage to Escape 28 Darkness Into Light 30 Kick Your Mind into Solution Mode 37 Chapter Two 39 Moving with Grace from Broken to Blissful 39 Getting Unstuck Starts Here 42 Who are you blaming? 43 The Broken to Blissful Method 45 Free Your Voice 47 Our Conscious Brain Voice 48 Our Gut Voice 49 Gut versus Ego 50 What is My Exciting, Juicy, Heart-Centered Goal? 54 Adopting Grace 55 Gratitude 56 Release 58 Authenticity 60 Find Your Authentic Self 61 Challenge 62 Embrace 64 Survivor versus Blissful Thrivers 66 Embracing Your Blissful Thriver 70 Sensational & Vivid Visualisation 71 Triggers 75 On Your Journey You Need to Celebrate 77 Chapter Three 83 How to Avoid Recapture 83 The Three Myths 87 What is love? 92 Why Making Him Happy Doesn’t Bring Happiness 94 REBEL SELF-LOVE 96 What You Reflect, You Attract 98 Launch Your Greatest Love Affair 101 Unwanted and Abandoned 103 Nurture Your Self-Love 108 Let’s Go to the Movies Scenario 116 Our Children 119 Break the Cycle 121 Custody, Visitation, and The Courts 123 His New Special Friend 125 Myth Three 127 Chapter Four 133 Leaving the Victim’Hood 133 Banish Your Lies 137 Anticipatory Fear 139 Activate and Embrace Your Blissful Thriver 142 The Anatomy of a Limiting Belief 150 Turn Limiting Beliefs into Validating Beliefs 152 Taking Action 156 Writing Your Dream Life 160 Resources 162 Appendix A 163 Broken to Blissful Foundational Toolkit 163 Writing from the Heart 175 Appendix B 177 The 7 Warning Signs of a Mean-Spirited Dick 177 Appendix C 183 Breathing Exercises and Self-Guided Meditation 183 Last Thoughts… 184 How to Contact Susan 185 I invite you to Reserve your VIP Session with me: http://www.susanball.ca/be-my-v-i-p/ 185

Editorial Reviews

Early Praise for Courage and Grace

“Susan Ball shares her own profound journey with her readers through compassion and love, as only a triumphant woman can -having walked the walk of abuse. Both women and men whom have a sense that there must be something more for them than living in abusive relationships, find hope in the support and guidance which is now available to them in Susan's book and companion workbook. Courage and Grace offers clear and tangible advice and self-awareness exercises on how to build their inner strength and identify a higher purpose to gain the incentive to release the hold abuse has had on their lives. This book is a true gift to anyone looking to embark on the journey of courage and living in grace outside abuse.”

Linda Berger, Women's Empowerment and Transformation Expert

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“What we've always respected about Susan Ball is that she's a strong, smart voice for empowered women everywhere. Since she's walked the path herself, she's also an informed voice. There's no better mentor anywhere for women who've experienced pain in their personal lives and choose to emerge victorious.”

Scot and Emily McKay

X & Y Communications

www.scotandemily.com/podcast

I was captivated by this incredible, eloquently written book from page 1! Susan Ball gives a very confronting insight into the world of domestic violence and yet it is fuelled with so much Courage and Grace. Susan tells her own story so powerfully while offering enormous hope, inspiration, and practical tools (including a workbook) for anyone ready to escape the horror of domestic violence. If that is you then this book is a must, I highly recommend it.

Jane Whiting

Courage and Grace by Susan Ball has a singular focus: to empower women through their own personal story. Yet, what makes Courage and Grace impactful is that Susan disallows any victimization to be a part of the solution. While Susan shares her own story--including when she was stuck in her own victim mentality--but where Susan lingers is in the energy of what's possible. If you are reading this and you feel stuck in a relationship that is abusive, buy a copy of Courage and Grace before night fall. While reading, Susan provides opportunities for readers to pause and reflect by using the Workbook exercises; do every one of these guided, insightful activities. Susan writes with honesty about the very, real fears she faced ("Courage to Escape" and "Break the Cycle") and offers her readers practical, specific steps to take to live in the energy of courage and grace.

Anella Wetter, M. Ed., RYT

Writer & Speaker, Empowerment & Relationship Coach

www.anellawetter.com

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