Courage to Shine - by Sara Regester (Paperback)

About the Book

In this inspiring story by a self-proclaimed Stress Junkie, you will learn new ways to approach your stress more productively, to re-wire stress responses and grow beyond your comfort zone.

Book Synopsis

Stress is an invitation from Spirit to grow beyond your comfort zone and step into the unknown where the greatest gifts of transformation are possible. In this inspiring story by a self-proclaimed Stress Junkie, you will learn new ways to approach stress more productively, to re-wire stress responses, and be more resilient.

This message of hope comes with pragmatic tools and practices, so you can grow from your stress and stretch beyond your comfort zone without paralyzing anxiety.

You will discover how to:

- Increase your health, harmony, and happiness, even when things are difficult with your kids, partner, or work.

- Transform the shake of anxiety into inner courage and outer confidence so you can stretch beyond your comfort zone.

- Learn new truths for yourself that will empower you to pick up these tools and break free from your sabotaging stress patterns

- Fuel your heart's desire and reignite your life force energy to restore your passion, creativity and spontaneity.

This book shares my story of how as a Registered Nurse, I wiped out my health from my stress as I pushed myself to be a successful healthcare professional. From a lack of boundaries and patterns of over working and over-giving I faced significant stress related illnesses repeatedly.

Eventually I would step back, focus on my healing, and then return back into the patterns that wiped out my health.

My illumination was when I saw the true connection of the mind-body-spirit and how we are naturally wired to evolve and grow through our physical health, the vehicle of our work and through our personal relationships. My epiphany was to recognize the bridge between Western medicine to assess and diagnose and Shamanic Healing of the mind-body-spirit.

Many of us have been impacted by people and events in our life that cause broken heartedness. The broken heart manifests in wounded self-concepts and a lack of self-acceptance and self-love. This results in a drive to fix ourselves by pushing and striving to feel happy about who we are and how we are seen in the world. This is the internal stress that is often hidden by high achievement and pushing for performance. This is the stress that this book offers solutions for.

Our wounded self-concepts are the cause of our insecurity which is underneath the veil of what we identify as stress. Confidence is the victory over our insecurity and is the transformation we imagine. We open the door to our confidence through courage. That transformation is our freedom when courage turns our insecurity and doubt around into confidence.

For every traumatic or peak life event, there is an opportunity to integrate that experience as a life lesson. We can turn around past trauma or shock points into greater understanding when we glean the wisdom we gained from the experience and catch a glimpse

Review Quotes

"There is deep wisdom on every page. Sara is a spiritual and

health leader for our time. Read this empowering book to

design your life into greater happiness and fulfillment."

Rachael Jayne Groover, bestselling author of

Powerful and Feminine

"Sara Regester says she is 'inspired by stress, ' and she means

it! In Courage to Shine, we learn that stress is, indeed, an

invitation to spiritual growth. Sara shares her own tender

journey, loads of practical tips, and fresh ideas for deepening

in our spiritual growth and enjoying greater self-mastery in

our relationships, professions, and more. Read this book

and thrive!"

Rev. Karen Russo, MBA, author of The Money Keys

"This book helped me recognize the patterns I'm stuck

in that create stress. I learned new wisdom and tools to

transform my stress into growth. I recommend this book to

anyone who wants to experience freedom when you stretch

outside your comfort zone."

Susan Raymond, Landscape Architect

"Thirty years of career stress, on top of the regular

challenges of life, steered me to a pattern of overworking,

over-giving and codependency in order to feel safe and

needed. This book highlights exactly how to move out of

my stale, confining and limiting comfort zone to previously

unimaginable opportunities. Now, every day, I remind

myself that Attention = Power and that what I focus on,

I get more of. I am learning how to bring my light back to

myself."

Mary, Market Manager

"If you want to live your most authentic, courageous, and

purpose-driven life, Courage to Shine is for you. Most of us

can relate to the many glimpses of how we sell ourselves,

and those in our lives, short. Having lived much of my life

as a perfectionist people-pleaser, I know that I do. It takes

mindfulness, vulnerability, bravery, and practice to step

into both the light and shadow aspects of our true selves.

In doing so, we empower ourselves to live consciously,

powerfully, and courageously choose how we want to show

up in the world."

Jocelyn Weiss, PhD, MPH, NBC-HWC