Today is the Day!

Hello, friends!

Today is the day!

My new book, Turn Toward the Sun is now available in bookstores everywhere!

Why did I want to write a book about releasing the WHAT IF and embracing the WHAT IS? Here’s why.

The “what if” is where comparison happens, and discontentment happens, and bitterness happens, and unhappiness happens. You’re so stuck in wishing to be somewhere else, doing something else, with someone else, living someone else’s life, that you never learn to appreciate or value or even like your own life. You spend so much time glancing over the fence to where the grass is seemingly “greener,” your own lawn becomes neglected, uncared for, unattended, and overgrown with thistles and weeds. While the “what if” might feel warm and fuzzy and safe and secure for a little while, it’s actually where dreams and happiness go to die.

But the “what is”? Yes, it might be where bad things and heartbreaking things and life-altering things sometimes happen…but it’s also where immeasurably good things, and breath-taking things, and life-affirming things happen. Because your life, just as it is, the good and the bad, is precious and wild and wholly unique and entirely worth embracing and celebrating and living. JUST AS IT IS.

In the what is, you stop fighting against the wind and you learn to turn toward the sun. Did you know that when sunflowers are baby flowers, they actually physically turn toward the sun to help elongate their stems? In other words, turning toward what is, and toward what’s real, even when it hurts…actually helps you grow. And yes, much like turning your face toward the sun on a hot summer day, accepting and learning to live in the what IS might feel like trial by fire at times…but it’s where necessary growth happens, and change happens, and life happens.

The “what is” is also where you discover your own inner fire, your own courage, and your own strength.

I never considered myself a particularly strong woman. Even when I wrote blogs and tweets and books encouraging other women to tap into their inner strength, I didn’t really feel like I had mastered tapping into my own. I think, perpetually living in the “what if,” I was writing more about the self I wished I could be than the self that I really was.

Then 2020 happened. A year that crashed into me and my family like a freight train. A year that would have left Mandy from even one year earlier flat on her back on the floor.

But 2020 Mandy?

Yes, she might have doubted and feared and worried and wavered.

But eventually, she stood and she dealt. On her own, without anyone helping her up.

Yes, the princess rescues herself in this book.

If you’re ready to stand and deal and Turn Toward the Sun…order your copy today.

If you’d like to get the book for 30% off + FREE shipping PLUS a signed bookplate for your book…you have until Monday to order directly from Baker Books and claim this deal!

ALSO! Please join me THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, June 17th, for my Live Virtual Book Launch Party! It’s going to be a great big Girls Night In full of inspiration, humor, encouragement, and real talk with real women about real issues. Plus I’m giving away some really fun prizes like a sunflower tote bag, a grow your own sunflower kit, signed books, and more! It’s FREE, you just need to click the image below to reserve your spot.

The light at the end of the tunnel is here,

Mandy