When love transforms your relationship with yourself, it transforms your personal life, your work, and the world.

When your birth includes a near-death experience, you know you are in for a wild ride. A fifty-five-year roller coaster of triumph and burnout led to finding my life purpose more than five decades later. Mine is a story of hope. Yours can be too. As a life coach, organization transformation consultant, Reiki master, artist, author, and broadcast personality, I have pursued a lifelong passion for the transformative power of love. I help people who are stuck in the "hamster wheel" approach to life. Trapped by fear and the mistaken belief that busyness is the same as purpose, they can't stand the way they're living but feel powerless to stop. As we work together, my clients discover what I discovered: when you fall in love with yourself, everything else falls into place, personally and professionally. Choosing love as your core energy automatically enhances every aspect of your life: your perceptions, opportunities, relationships, and priorities. You get unstuck, reclaim your personal power, and recapture your zest for living, moving yourself forward into a life you love. Instead of choosing to live as a victim of circumstance, consider embracing the transformative power of loving yourself unconditionally through insights, encouragement, clear strategies, and practical tools built on

- my personal journey, including a sustained eighty-pound weight loss, freedom from a ten-year bout of debilitating depression, and finding my purpose guiding others on their journeys; - living in flow, a fluid Journey to Wholeness grounded in who you are being not what you are doing; - the Discovery Framework that grew out of my experience, including core energy, sensory balance, and your personal board of directors; and - Lessons in Living inspired by the journeys of my clients.

What's love got to do with it? Everything

When love transforms your relationship with yourself, it transforms your personal life, your work, and the world.

When your birth includes a near-death experience, you know you are in for a wild ride. A fifty-five-year roller coaster of triumph and burnout led to finding my life purpose more than five decades later. Mine is a story of hope. Yours can be too. As a life coach, organization transformation consultant, Reiki master, artist, author, and broadcast personality, I have pursued a lifelong passion for the transformative power of love. I help people who are stuck in the "hamster wheel" approach to life. Trapped by fear and the mistaken belief that busyness is the same as purpose, they can't stand the way they're living but feel powerless to stop. As we work together, my clients discover what I discovered: when you fall in love with yourself, everything else falls into place, personally and professionally. Choosing love as your core energy automatically enhances every aspect of your life: your perceptions, opportunities, relationships, and priorities. You get unstuck, reclaim your personal power, and recapture your zest for living, moving yourself forward into a life you love. Instead of choosing to live as a victim of circumstance, consider embracing the transformative power of loving yourself unconditionally through insights, encouragement, clear strategies, and practical tools built on

- my personal journey, including a sustained eighty-pound weight loss, freedom from a ten-year bout of debilitating depression, and finding my purpose guiding others on their journeys; - living in flow, a fluid Journey to Wholeness grounded in who you are being not what you are doing; - the Discovery Framework that grew out of my experience, including core energy, sensory balance, and your personal board of directors; and - Lessons in Living inspired by the journeys of my clients.

What's love got to do with it? Everything

The Hunger Games is on fire. This series of novels and movies is attracting millions. Jane Wells offers an exciting new perspective on novelist Suzanne Collins' complex world. Readers and moviegoers, young and old, continue to cheer for her hero Katniss Everdeen, a teenager fighting forces of injustice in a bleak future version of our world. Now, Jane Wells delves into this dystopian realm from a Christian perspective, exploring themes of social justice, transformation and unlikely heroism. In the novels and movies, Katniss is not content with the tragically unjust world in which she finds herself. Instead, she is on fire for justice and transformed by the love and loss she encounters. Jane Wells' new book, Bird on Fire, is thought-provoking for the individual reader, but the chapters also feature discussion questions, making this book an excellent option for small group study. The book opens with a description of the Mockingjay, the revolutionary symbol of hope that gives the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy its title. Jane Wells recounts several other tales of "unlikely heroes" from The Hunger Games (often paralleled by examples from scripture), including Katniss' own journey. Katniss risks her life to fight for justice. When Katniss emerges from the arena, she finds herself changed. She witnesses the death of her friend, Rue, and she experiences things no teenager should have to encounter. She also learns to appreciate the differences in those around her. Wells invites readers to reflect on these eye-opening experiences of love and loss, both in The Hunger Games-and in readers' our own lives. Then, Jane Wells invites us to take action. The fictional world of Panem is full of inequality and desperation-and Katniss fights desperately to make her world better for everyone. Wells guides us through issues of social justice featured in The Hunger Games, inviting us to model our actions on Katniss Everdeen-and our faith.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone