Synopses & Reviews
Naomi Judd, affectionately known as the Star Next Door, is the mother of two talented daughters and an icon of the American heartland, but readers of her bestselling memoir,
Love Can Build a Bridge, know that she's also a survivor. Her admirers always ask: How did a woman who missed her high school graduation to deliver her first child, who endured domestic abuse, lived on welfare, and overcame a life-threatening illness, find the inner strength to persevere? As Naomi puts it, "a dead end is just a good place to turn around." Now in
Naomi's Breakthrough Guide she shares with readers the hard-won wisdom that helped her turn potential breakdowns into life-altering breakthroughs.
Awareness and responsibility are the foundations of Naomi's approach to personal transformation. As she'll tell you, change is the true nature of the universe, but it is how we choose to respond to change that determines whether or not we lead healthy, happy lives. In these pages Naomi outlines the twenty most important life choices that will help us become aware of the control we have over our lives and achieve life's greatest reward: peace of mind.
Informed by both personal experience and the latest mind/body research, Naomi's principles will help anyone looking to improve relationships, family life, career, health, or other areas of life. Naomi shows how to focus on your ultimate goal, know forgiveness, trust your intuition, embrace risk, free your body and mind from worry, and resign as the General Manager of the Universe. In her typically down-to-earth, practical style, Naomi reminds us that it's not until we decide to take responsibility for our own lives that we, like pebbles that make ripples as they hit the water, can affect the lives of others.
Blending candid personal stories and practical exercises with anecdotes about well-known friends and family, Naomi's Breakthrough Guide will act as an essential companion and mentor for all those seeking to revolutionize their lives.
Review
"[L]ively and inspirational....[T]his guide is uplifting, and one of the more solid of the various 'self-help' titles from celebrities." Publishers Weekly
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"[O]ne might think, Isn't it enough that Naomi Judd sings? Must she help people transform their lives as well? But she does a surprisingly good job of it." Booklist
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"Naomi Judd is an inspiration. Combining native intelligence, the wisdom of experience, good humor, and the collected advice of a remarkable set of friends and colleagues, she explains what she has learned and gives sound and sensible advice about how to find health and happiness in life." Andrew Weil, M.D.,
author, Spontaneous Healing and Eating Well for Optimum Health
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"Naomi Judd's remarkable life, including her recovery from hepatitis C, is living proof that she knows what she's talking about. Listen to her wisdom. She's been there. She can help you." Christiane Northrup, M.D.,
author, Women's Bodies,Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
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"Naomi Judd is proof positive that you can turn heartbreak into happiness. This is an inspiring book for anyone who wants to achieve a personal breakthrough of their own." John Gray, Ph.D., author, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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"Powerful, transformative, and healing. If you read only one book this year, this is it." Dean Ornish, M.D., author, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease and Love & Survival
Synopsis
Millions of fans know Naomi Judd as a country music superstar, television personality, bestselling author, and public speaker but above all she is a survivor. In this practical guide, Naomi reveals the key emotional, physical, and spiritual lessons she's learned in a lifetime of facing and conquering obstacles. Naomi's Breakthrough Guide takes a holistic approach to personal transformation using Naomi's experience of the mind/body/spirit connection as the basis of an accessible, achievable program for dramatic change.
About the Author
Naomi Judd, a country music superstar as well as one of the most admired women in the entertainment industry, has sold more than twenty million albums and won six Grammys and American Music awards. Author of the bestselling autobiography
Love Can Build a Bridge, Naomi has also written two children's books and
Naomi's Home Companion, a collection of recipes and kitchen-table wisdom. She lives with her husband outside of Nashville, Tennessee, on a farm that adjoins the homes of her daughter Wynonna and her two grandkids, Elijah and Gracie, and daughter Ashley and her husband, Dario Franchitti.
Table of Contents
Contents1 Peace of Mind Is the Goal
2 Change Your Mind, Change Your World
3 Life is a Series of Multiple-Choice Questions
4 You Can Reverse Any Curse
5 You can Be Anything You Want, but First You Have to UnderstandWhat's Standing in Your Way
6 Become a Detective and Investigate Your Past
7 Personality: It's all Relative
8 Know Forgiveness, Know Peace -- No Forgiveness, No Peace
9 Your Strengths and Passions Are the Essence of Your Happiness
10 Intuition Is Your Secret Guidance System
11 Risk Allows you to Become Who You Were Meant to Be
12 You've Got to Love That Person in the Mirror
13 You Become Whatever You Think About All Day
14 Your Mind Is in Every Cell of Your Body
15 Worry and Fear are Dispensable Parasites on Your Brain
16 Resign as General Manager of the Universe
17 Find a New, Stronger Life Urge
18 You andI May Not Have It All Together, But Together We Can Have It All
19 Develop the Eight Characteristics of a Survivor Personality
20 Love Heals the Giver as Well as the Receiver
Parting Thoughts
Acknowledgments
Index