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Finding Your Authentic Self

More than 200 Unique, Focused Writing Prompts and Self-Exploration Exercises
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Finding Your Authentic Self by Susan Reynolds is a guide that encourages you to explore your true identity by examining personal values, passions, and strengths. It provides strategies and exercises to help you break free from societal expectations, enabling a more fulfilling and genuine life path. The book emphasizes self-reflection and personal growth, inspiring readers to live more aligned with their true selves.
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Finding your Authentic Self is guided workbook that will help you connect with your true self to help you lead a better, more fulfilling life.

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Stop curating your life as a perfect social media post, and start living authentically as who you really are. Social media and digital content are deeply woven into our daily lives. Reports suggest we check our phones almost 100 times a day! As a result of this, coupled with endlessly streaming shows, news, and gossip, we are bombarded with media that tells us how to look, act, and feel. The reality is that almost all media, and society, is like a house of mirrors, where images can be distorted.

Amongst all the photo filters, online shopping, and family and societal pressures, it's not hard for anyone to start presenting a heavily curatedβ€”but ultimately hollowβ€”version of themselves to the world. So how do you stop presenting who you think you should be and start living authentically as who you really are? How do you live your life according to your own values and goals, rather than those of other people? The answer is not to disengage from media or other people altogetherβ€”there's a better way!

Finding Your Authentic Self is a guided workbook that will help you connect with your true self, your better self. Through a series of writing exercises, you will:

  • Observe yourself objectively
  • Explore your values, strengths, and personality
  • Develop compassion
  • Live with integrity and take responsibility
  • Challenge belief systems and communicate honestly
  • Develop self-confidence and manage your emotions
  • Find your life's purpose

A layflat binding facilitates your progress by making it physically easier to write inside the book. Once you realise your true potential, you'll find you have the respect of othersβ€”as well as yourself. You won't care what others think because you will be living your own personal truth, a truth you can stand behind. With inspiring and uplifting quotes and affirmations throughout, you can discover the fulfillment and peace that comes from living as a more authentic person, a more genuine you.

With so much of our lives and contact going digital, the Guided Workbooks offer an intimate way to nurture your connection with yourself and the people around you. An entertaining way to get off your screen, the pages in these guided prompt books are great for writers and first-timers alike. Each workbook offers content around a different, compelling theme, filled with thoughtful questions, inspiration for composition, and interactive prompts to learn about yourself and the world around you. Beautifully designed on high-quality paper stock and full of mindful prompts, channel your inspiration as you put pen to paper to learn more about what inspires you.

Other books in the series include: The Adulting Workbook, Stop Overthinking, 5-Minute Productivity Workbook, 3-Minute Positivity Workbook, 52 Weeks to Better Mental Health, Tarot: A Guided Workbook to Unlock and Explore Your Magickal Intuition, Astrology: A Guided Workbook to Understand and Explore the Wisdom of the Universe, and Finding Your Balance: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook.

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  • The Empowered Empath
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  • 52 Weeks to Better Mental Health
    Nurture yourselfβ€”and your well-beingβ€”through one year of self-reflective writing prompts. Discovering who you really are is a powerful way to create change. Regularly writing down thoughts, feelings, and goals can ultimately help reduce stress, increase focus, ease anxiety, improve positivity, and make life work better overall. Following guided writing prompts takes the personal discovery one step further by helping you...
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  • 5-Minute Productivity Workbook
    Stop procrastinating, start accomplishing, and take charge of your life! This workbook's 130+ writing prompts and exercises will guide your way. In a Franklin-Covey survey of more than 350,000 people at all organisational levels from around the world, respondents reported feeling that they are wasting 40% of their time. With the overwhelming omnipresence of email, the internet, and social media,...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780785843474

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Chartwell Books Inc.,U.S.

Illustration: color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Susan Reynolds has written, co-authored, or edited more than 25 nonfiction books, primarily self-help books on everything from finance to meditation to neuroscience. Her most recent books include 5-Minute Productivity, Fire Up Your Writing Brain and Train Your Brain to Get Happy. She regularly blogs for Psychologytoday.com and on fireupyourwritingbrain.com.

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  • The Empowered Empath
    Learn how to embrace other people's feelings while validating your own with this guided workbook's 100+ writing prompts and activities. Empathy is the act of experiencing the world as you think or perceive someone else does. Many people try to improve their ability to empathise, with the goal of becoming a more compassionate, kind, and generous person. For empaths and...
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  • Overcome Your Anxiety
    More and more people of all ages and walks of life are experiencing anxiety. It can be debilitating, affecting motivation and quality of life. With Overcome Your Anxiety, readers learn techniques for breathwork and other anxiety-calming behaviours that will help de-escalate when anxiety begins to mount. Readers will become more aware of their bodies and their signals of stress such...
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  • 5-Minute Productivity Workbook
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  • 3-Minute Positivity Workbook
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  • The Loneliness Problem
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