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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Self Help Book Blitz: Life Reset by Lisa Macedo

Burnout can be difficult to recognize when exhaustion has become part of the daily routine. Responsibilities still get handled, other people's needs still take priority, and personal well-being gradually slips further down the list. In Life Reset: A Guide for Women to Recenter & Overcome Burnout, licensed marriage and family therapist Lisa Macedo examines what it means to recover from that pattern. Drawing on professional experience, personal insight, and practical exercises, she approaches recovery not as another demand to meet, but as an opportunity to reconsider the habits, beliefs, and boundaries shaping everyday life.

A Guide For Women to Recenter & Overcome Burnout

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Date Published: April 29, 2025

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Recovery isn't about doing more. It's about doing things differently.

If you've been holding it all together while secretly running on fumes, you're not alone. Burnout means you're giving too much and not allowing space to care for yourself.

Life Reset: Overcoming Burnout is your guide to reclaiming your energy, balance, and joy. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Lisa Macedo draws from her own experience and evidence-based practices to help you:

· Identify how burnout shows up in your daily life so you can take charge and begin to heal;

· Understand how your nervous system and beliefs affect your well-being;

· Set boundaries and live according to your values;

· Restore rest, energy, and emotional resilience; and

· Reconnect with your true self and rediscover joy.

With gentle guidance and practical exercises, this workbook helps you move from surviving on autopilot to thriving with clarity, purpose, and intention.

It's time to pause, reset, and choose yourself. Your healing starts now.

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One of the more useful distinctions in Life Reset is its emphasis on changing patterns rather than simply finding ways to accomplish more. Lisa Macedo connects burnout recovery with several areas that are often considered separately: the nervous system, personal beliefs, boundaries, and the ability to recognize one's own needs. That broader approach encourages readers to examine not only how exhausted they feel, but also what may be contributing to their exhaustion.

The workbook format is another important feature. Instead of limiting the discussion to explanations of burnout, Macedo includes practical exercises intended to help women identify their experiences and consider meaningful changes. Her background as a licensed marriage and family therapist informs a book that places emotional well-being and personal values alongside the more familiar concerns of rest and energy.

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Life Reset is especially relevant to women who recognize the experience of managing responsibilities while neglecting their own need for rest and emotional support. Those interested in understanding how personal beliefs and nervous system responses relate to well-being may appreciate Macedo's approach, while readers who prefer guided exercises over purely informational self-help books will find the workbook structure appealing. It may also be a useful resource for women beginning to examine their boundaries, reconsider long-standing expectations, or develop a more intentional relationship with their time and energy.

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Lisa Macedo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over fifteen years of experience. She is certified by both the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the International OCD Foundation. Lisa earned her bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in applied developmental psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She went on to receive her Master of Arts in clinical psychology with a specialization in marriage and family therapy from Notre Dame de Namur University. A first-generation American with roots in the Azores Islands, Lisa travels there annually to reconnect with her heritage and return to her center.

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The central question behind Life Reset is worth considering: what needs to change when the effort to keep everything running has become unsustainable? Lisa Macedo approaches that question through boundaries, emotional resilience, personal values, and an understanding of the habits that can contribute to burnout. For women who want a structured way to reflect on those concerns, her workbook offers a place to begin. Its focus on doing things differently, rather than simply doing more, is what makes this approach to burnout recovery particularly relevant.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Angela Thompson 7:17 AM 0

Nonfiction Book Blitz: reclaim by Heather Henderson

Attention is remarkably easy to surrender without noticing it happen. A notification becomes a quick check, a recommendation leads to another, and minutes that seemed available for living are suddenly gone. In Reclaim: How to Stop Scrolling Through Your Life and Start Living It, Heather Henderson examines that familiar pattern from the perspective of someone who spent years inside major technology companies, including Google and Uber.

Her focus is not simply the amount of time spent looking at a screen. Henderson is interested in what she calls “unconscious time”—the moments we give away without deliberately deciding to do so. That distinction leads to the question at the center of Reclaim: Did I choose this, or was it chosen for me?

How to Stop Scrolling Through Your Life and Start Living It

Personal Development / Digital Well-Being (Narrative Nonfiction)

Date Published: Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Publisher: Fernlight Books

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You’re not broken. You’re overstimulated.

They sat on the beach with their backs to the ocean, faces in their phones, watching clips of someone else’s vacation. As Heather Henderson stood a few feet away, ready to capture the perfect Cabo moment, she realized we were promised more: more connection, more freedom, more possibility — not a life spent refreshing feeds.

Handed devices before we were taught how to live with them, most of us inherited this algorithmic world. We learned to let notifications and endless recommendations choose for us in small, quiet ways, until the choices no longer felt like choices at all, and we found ourselves scrolling through life instead of living it.

The problem goes beyond casual screen time. It is unconscious time — the moments we surrender without realizing the cost.

Drawing from her years inside major tech companies, including Google and Uber, Heather Henderson invites readers to ask:

Did I choose this, or was it chosen for me?

If you feel wired but tired, connected but lonely, or busy but empty, this book is an honest look at how we lost presence — and a guide to reclaim it.

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The idea of “unconscious time” gives Reclaim a sharper focus than a simple discussion of reducing screen hours. Henderson asks readers to notice the point at which intentional technology use becomes automatic behavior—the quick checks, recommended content, and habitual scrolling that can consume time before we have consciously decided to spend it.

Her years working inside major technology companies, including Google and Uber, add another dimension to that examination. The book is not built around pretending technology can simply disappear from modern life. Instead, Henderson’s central question—“Did I choose this, or was it chosen for me?”—offers a way to examine who is directing our attention whenever a device, notification, or algorithm asks for it.

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Reclaim will speak most directly to people who recognize the strange experience of being constantly connected while not always feeling fully present. Those interested in digital well-being, attention, personal development, and the influence of algorithms on everyday decisions should find Henderson’s central premise especially relevant.

It should also appeal to people who are not interested in abandoning their devices but would like a more deliberate relationship with them. Anyone who has opened a phone for one reason and surfaced several minutes later somewhere entirely different will recognize the kind of “unconscious time” Henderson wants readers to notice.

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The beach scene behind Reclaim makes Henderson’s argument unusually concrete: the ocean is right there, yet attention remains fixed on a screen showing somebody else’s experience. It is a small image with a much larger implication about how easily being connected can compete with being present.

Henderson’s question—“Did I choose this, or was it chosen for me?”—is therefore more than a line from the book’s description. It offers a simple test for those ordinary moments when a notification, recommendation, or feed begins deciding what happens next. For a book concerned with reclaiming “unconscious time,” noticing that moment may be exactly where reclaiming it begins.

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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Angela Thompson 9:04 AM 1

Self Help Spotlight: The Needs of the Heart by Phillip Anderson

Phillip Anderson begins The Needs of the Heart with problems that can feel overwhelmingly large—war, political corruption, economic hardship, social injustice, and civil unrest—but his focus ultimately turns inward. The question at the center of the book is not simply what is wrong with the world, but what individuals might cultivate within themselves if they hope to improve it. By examining emotions and principles Anderson believes can cross racial, religious, ethnic, and demographic boundaries, the book approaches social change through the more personal work of understanding the human heart.

Self-Help / Philosophy

Date Published: May 30, 2023

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Living in this world is hard, no matter the point in history or the dominant culture which governs how society conducts itself.

Wars, famine, political corruption, economic depression, social injustice, civil unrest, all of which leads to the spiritual, personal unrest of the human soul.

And it makes us wonder... How do I, as a person, and we as human beings, work together individually yet collectively to make the world a better place for those who live here today and for those who will be born into this world tomorrow?

Aspiring author Phillip Anderson, author of The Needs of the Heart, provides deep insight into the human emotional spectrum as well as giving deep introspective insight into the emotions and principles he believes people of all races, religions, ethnicities, and demographic backgrounds need to not only make themselves better people, but the world a better place.

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The questions raised in The Needs of the Heart operate on two levels at once. Anderson looks outward at persistent problems within society while asking readers to consider what happens internally when people live amid conflict, injustice, instability, and division. Rather than separating the condition of society from the condition of the individual, his premise connects the two.

That connection gives the book a philosophical dimension beyond personal improvement alone. Anderson is interested in the emotional spectrum and in principles he believes people can share despite differences in race, religion, ethnicity, or demographic background. The resulting question is a demanding one: if people want a better world for themselves and for generations that follow, what responsibilities begin with the way they understand and develop themselves?

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The Needs of the Heart is likely to resonate with those who enjoy reflective nonfiction that asks them to examine both their inner lives and their relationship with the larger world. Anderson's interest in the emotional spectrum makes the book particularly relevant to readers who appreciate self-examination but also want that reflection connected to questions about community and society.

It may also speak to readers drawn to philosophy centered on common human concerns rather than one particular demographic experience. Anderson explicitly frames his ideas around principles he believes can matter across racial, religious, ethnic, and demographic differences. Those interested in considering how individual character and collective responsibility might intersect will find that question at the heart of the book.

  ༺ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ༻  

Hello, my name is Phillip Anderson. I am a young Author from New York City. My love for writing started when I was 16 years old when I was writing in my journals rather than thinking about publishing a book as a professional Author. I graduated high school in 2014 and later in that year was accepted into Morehouse College where I would graduate with a Bachelors degree in Kinesiology.

However, It wasn't until I was in grad school where my passion for writing truly took hold. After completing the first year of my 2 year master's program, I dropped out of the program to pursue my passion of writing. A year and a half later, I would go on to complete and publish my first book titled The needs of the Heart in 2020 with the intent to pursue writing as a full time endeavor.

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One of the more challenging ideas behind The Needs of the Heart is that improving the world and improving ourselves cannot be treated as entirely separate projects. Anderson begins with social conditions that can make an individual feel powerless, then redirects attention toward the emotional and philosophical territory where a person can still examine choices, principles, and relationships with others.

That makes this a book centered less on escaping difficult realities than on considering how human beings might respond to them. Its questions reach from the private life of the individual to the kind of world inherited by future generations, giving readers an opportunity to consider what the needs of the heart might demand not only from society, but from themselves.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Angela Thompson 6:02 AM 0

Self Development Book Blitz: Born to be (Unconsciously) Biased by Fabi Fugazza

This morning, I have a business self-development book to share! Learn about Born to be (Unconsciously) Biased and author Fabi Fugazza.

Strategies to Unbias Your Business Decision Making

Business, Business Diversity & Inclusion, Self Development

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No activity in organisations is more important than decision making.

Unconscious biases, however, cloud our view, and threaten our ability to make optimal, rational decisions. These biases impact our thinking without us even being aware of it, so, because we don't see our own unconscious biases, we often feel our decisions are based purely on "merit".

This is not so. This book will lift the cloud, explain why decisions made purely on merit are generally a "myth", and show you how unconscious bias impacts your decisions. This book will then provide you with practical strategies to minimise bias in your decision-making processes, helping you to optimise your organisational decision making and your organisation’s outcomes.

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Fabi Fugazza ANZAM LLB BBusComm MMgmt GDLP is a management expert, author, international academic and lawyer with extensive experience in equity initiatives, human/civil rights and organisational management.

She has owned unconscious bias consulting and training business jObjective since 2018, is Co-Executive Director of the Italy-based human/civil rights coalition CILD and is a multi-award-winning academic at two universities based in Australia. She has taught unconscious bias, law, business, and social sciences in undergraduate and graduate programs across three continents, and in executive education programs. She is a former Lead Scientific Adviser of New York University’s Public Interest Law Clinic in Paris, has delivered several CPDs on unconscious bias, and has worked with non-profit organisations for over 15 years.

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Friday, June 19, 2026

Angela Thompson 12:59 PM 0

Book Spotlight: Notes from Planet Widow: Finding My Way After Loss by Gwen Suesse

Some experiences are difficult to explain to anyone who hasn't lived through them. In Notes from Planet Widow, Gwen Suesse reflects on the emotional landscape that follows profound loss, exploring the uncertainty, loneliness, and gradual shifts that can emerge when life changes in ways that cannot be undone. This morning, we are joining the book spotlight tour for Notes from Planet Widow by Gwen Suesse! Check out the book, read an excerpt & learn about the author!

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What happens when the life you knew disappears overnight?

Gwen Suesse invites readers into the disorienting reality of grief after the sudden loss of her husband. As familiar routines, assumptions, and plans for the future begin to unravel, she finds herself navigating a world that no longer feels recognizable.

Drawing from her own experience, Suesse examines the many dimensions of loss, including loneliness, fear, anger, exhaustion, and the challenge of redefining identity after a life-altering change. She reflects on the quiet moments that often go unseen by others, the questions that linger without answers, and the emotional contradictions that accompany grief.

Rather than offering a roadmap or simple solutions, the book provides an honest account of what it means to keep living when certainty has disappeared. Through thoughtful reflection and lived experience, Notes from Planet Widow explores how small moments of understanding can gradually help create space for resilience, connection, and the possibility of beginning again.

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PLANET WIDOW. A desolate, hostile land. Bleak. Unfamiliar. Foreign. So far away until suddenly it was not; until, like Dorothy, picked up and deposited in Oz by a tornado, I found myself plunked down in a strange barren landscape, overwhelmed by unrecognizable terrain. I was awash in grief, heartache, and disorientation. How could I navigate this unknown land? How could I find my way forward when there was only half of me left to do that?

All I could see was grayness, everywhere grayness, obscured with apparitions of death, visions of loss, and specters of being alone pockmarking the landscape.

For Dorothy, there was a yellow brick road. I saw no roads of any kind or color. No way forward and no safe haven. I was consumed by desolation, loneliness, and cold fear.

That stark, terrifying, hard landing happened years ago. In time the edges softened, the landscape came into focus, and colors reemerged. It is a strange truth that human beings are endlessly adaptable, even when we don’t want to be. We become inured to our situations in spite of ourselves. Surviving grief is as old as humankind. Life does go on. Somehow, we manage to “continue to continue,” as the Simon & Garfunkel song goes.

Initial paralysis slowly morphed into a truce of sorts with this new terrain. Seeing no alternative, I reluctantly embarked on a messy, disorganized, nonlinear process steeped in a brew of grief, heartache, self-doubt, and gut-wrenching loneliness. This process entailed false starts, full stops, unexpected roadblocks, unforeseeable hurdles, periodic rebellions, hand-wringing insecurities, agonizing uncertainties, and all other manner of obstacles and challenges. One day followed another. Somehow life went on.

What makes such transformation possible? Surely Grace—Grace, capital-G—that unmerited, mystical assistance that defies explanation, surely that was at work, carrying me when I could no longer carry myself, shifting my spirit when life had ebbed to its darkest moments, revealing glimmers of hope, difference, love, and possibility.

Examples spring to mind: A friend showing up with a plastic produce bucket full of ice and a bottle of wine. Omnipresent friends—each helping in their own signature way—through phone calls or emails or sharing books or splitting wood for my wood stove. Nature stunning me with her resilience and outrageous beauty as dappled sun sparkled through the trees and onto the stream next to my favorite hiking path, reminding me of Light, Hope, and Buoyancy, hinting that despite everything, joy can still be found. Grace in plain sight alongside the grief, coaxing me inch by excruciating inch to stop staring at closed doors and turn to windows open with possibilities.

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Gwen Suesse is a writer, certified life coach, and grief support practitioner whose work focuses on helping people navigate life after profound loss and transition. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Wagner College and a master’s degree in teaching from Harvard University, and is certified as a Martha Beck Life Coach, a Creative Grief Support Practitioner, and an administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®.

Her professional background spans education, choral conducting, human resources, coaching, and leadership roles in nonprofit and community organizations. She has led workshops and delivered keynote presentations at women’s conferences and charitable events, bringing a thoughtful, experience-based perspective to topics of identity, resilience, and personal growth.

Gwen is the award-winning author of Womansong: Balance and Harmony in a Feminine Key, which explores women’s search for balance and self-realization, and Notes from Planet Widow: Finding My Way After Loss, a deeply personal reflection on rebuilding life after unexpected loss.

She lives in Tryon, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Angela Thompson 10:34 AM 0

Self Help Spotlight: Navigate Cancer by Teresa Ferreio-Valarino

This morning, I have a self help book in our book spotlight! Learn about Navigate Cancer by Teresa Ferreio-Valarino and be sure to enter for a chance to win a prize in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post.

Coaching for Resilience

Leadership / Self-Help / Health / Business

Date Published: April 29. 2026

Publisher: Serapis Bey Publishing, Arizona, USA

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This empowering book launches the new Cancer Compass; an essential self-leadership resource for people facing cancer. It extends its reach to caregivers, healthcare professionals, and organisations committed to offering meaningful support to anyone in their workforce dealing with cancer. It encourages us to see cancer not solely as a medical challenge, but as a profound moment to honour the resilience of our human spirit, embrace growth, and reclaim control of our lives for a brighter future.

Teresa Ferreiro-Vilariño challenges her readers to shift their perspective, prioritising personal empowerment, connection and purposeful living. Her insights about resilience coaching and each person’s human potential are uplifting. Her book is deeply rooted in practical application, including thoughtful exercises and tools that prompt us to access our inner resources, engage in self-discovery and cultivate our secure bases. These unique gifts guide us to align our decisions with our values and goals, helping us chart a path forward with choice, clarity and confidence.

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Teresa Ferreiro-Vilariño is the Founder and CEO of Kimberlite (https://www.kimberlite.es), an innovative organisation dedicated to providing comprehensive support to people navigating cancer—particularly within corporate settings—through professional coaching. A Master Certified Coach (MCC) accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Teresa brings more than 20 years of experience working with leaders and organisations worldwide.

At the age of 36, a breast cancer diagnosis marked a turning point in her life, redirecting her focus toward empowering people living with cancer. In the years that followed, she authored her first book, I Have Breast Cancer–What Now?, recognised for its inspirational and practical guidance, embraced motherhood, and founded a charitable initiative supporting young women navigating motherhood after cancer. She later earned a PhD focused on applying professional coaching methodologies to the specific needs of people facing serious health challenges. In recognition of her commitment to patient advocacy, she was honoured with the European Patient Champion Award by EyeforPharma in 2019.

Teresa is also an executive coach and coaches across multiple programs at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, including the flagship High-Performance Leadership (HPL) Program, supporting leaders in developing resilience, clarity, and sustainable performance.

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Angela Thompson 8:47 AM 0

Non-fiction self-help book teaser: Navigate Cancer by Teresa Ferreiro-Vilariño

Today, I have a non-fiction self help book to share in our book teaser spotlight! Learn about Navigate Cancer by Teresa Ferreiro-Vilariño and be sure to enter for a chance to win a prize in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post!

Coaching for Resilience

Leadership / Self-Help / Health / Business

Date Published: April 29. 2026

Publisher: Serapis Bey Publishing, Arizona, USA

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Navigate Cancer – Coaching for Resilience is an essential self-leadership resource for people facing cancer. Its reach extends to caregivers, healthcare professionals, and organisations committed to offering meaningful support to anyone in their workforce living with cancer.

The book invites us to see cancer beyond a purely medical challenge—to honour the resilience of the human spirit, embrace growth, and reclaim a sense of control, shaping the cancer experience from a place of agency and choice.

The Cancer Compass, which the book introduces, offers orientation: a way to move forward without denying fear, to reclaim agency without resisting reality, and to live—not just survive—while walking through illness. Teresa Ferreiro-Vilariño challenges readers to shift their perspective, prioritising personal empowerment, meaningful connection, and purposeful living.

Grounded in resilience coaching and a deep belief in human potential, the book is both inspiring and practical. It includes thoughtful exercises and tools that invite self-discovery, strengthen inner resources, and cultivate secure bases. These elements guide readers to align their decisions with their values and goals, helping them chart a path forward with choice, clarity, and confidence.

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Angela Thompson 3:57 AM 0

Self Help Spotlight: A Fragile Utopia by Nick Hanson

Today, I have a self help book in our book blitz feature spot! Learn about A Fragile Utopia: Escaping the Elaborate Facade of Alcoholic Bliss and author Nick Hanson!

Escaping the Elaborate Facade of Alcoholic Bliss

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For most of Nick's life, drinking was an integral part of family, friendships, and even professional success. Alcohol was celebrated among his elder millennial peers. Abstinence was not. However, there were breadcrumbs scattered across several decades that a lifestyle in alcoholic bliss was not sustainable. Reckless behavior, relationship woes, declining health, personal tragedy, and dreams unrealized began to fester. Eventually, a life in sobriety became the only option if Nick was to live a life full of meaning and love.

A Fragile Utopia is a turbulent and honest journey into the depths of alcoholism and the path to finding hope and purpose in recovery. The good news is, when we look inward, there is light. If we own our flaws, there can be redemption.

This memoir is a playbook for navigating early sobriety: how it will feel, obstacles encountered, how loved ones will react, insight into treatment, how AA and other fellowship recovery programs work, and examples of how most people fail in early attempts at sobriety.

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Nick Hanson is a passionate recovery enthusiast and advocate for people who are suffering from substance abuse and addiction. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and three children. He enjoys the outdoors, pop culture, reading, music, sports, fitness, cooking and is always up for learning something new.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Angela Thompson 6:54 AM 0

Book Release Blitz: You got this! by Lisa Bartley

There’s a moment—usually quiet, usually unexpected—when you realize no one actually handed you a roadmap for adulthood. Just expectations, pressure, and a whole lot of figuring it out as you go.

You Got This! leans into that uncertainty and reframes it as something powerful. Grounded in personal growth and real-life experience, this book speaks to women navigating transitions, ambition, and identity shifts with a tone that’s equal parts honest, encouraging, and grounding. It explores resilience, boundaries, self-trust, and redefining success—while embracing the messy, nonlinear reality of becoming who you’re meant to be. If you’re drawn to books that feel like a candid conversation rather than a checklist, this one delivers reassurance and motivation without the pressure to be perfect.

Honest Lessons on Life, Love, and Leveling Up

Personal Development

Date Published: March 24, 2026

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

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Your twenties and thirties are packed with big decisions, bigger emotions, and the pressure to somehow have life all figured out. But what if you didn’t have to learn every lesson the hard way?

In You Got This!, personal and professional development coach Lisa Bartley shares candid advice and empowering mindset shifts—through sharp honesty, laugh-out-loud moments, and the kind of wisdom that only comes with experience. Bartley tackles what no one prepares you for—setting boundaries, navigating relationships, rebounding from failure, and finding the courage to go after what you really want.

This is not a guide to becoming perfect. It’s a guide to becoming powerful on your terms.

If you’ve ever felt stuck or like everyone but you got the memo on adulthood, this book is your reminder that growth is messy, clarity takes time, and no, you’re not behind . . . you’re just getting started.

You Got This! is a must-read for every woman standing at the threshold of the rest of her life. It’s the permission slip, pep talk, and playbook every woman needs while figuring it all out.

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Lisa Bartley is an author and award-winning speaker who helps women break free from their comfort zones and step into the strongest, truest versions of themselves.

You Got This! began as an attempt to record words of wisdom she wishes she’d heard in her early adult years. Now, in its completion, it stands as a legacy of lessons written for her daughter and for every young woman finding her way.

Lisa lives in Southern California where she prefers her hikes coastal, her wine bold, and her dinner parties unforgettable.

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