Hello Beautiful: Break free from the chains of regret, comparison, and self-doubt, and discover the freedom, power, and beauty of being the real you.

by Keryl Pesce

You are not what happens to you. You are how you choose to respond. You are who you choose to become as a result.

If we stop resisting the reality of what is at the moment, trust what we experience will somehow serve us and choose wise responses, our lives can become meaningful and powerful.

Once you stop resisting and hating the reality of your experiences, the key is to then figure out how to leverage your conditions to your benefit. Wanna know how? Cool. Chin up, straighten your crown, and let’s keep going.

Then forgive into love and compassion. Keep shifting your perspective and asking different questions until you are able to do so.

You will feel lighter and at the same time, more grounded.

If you read my first book, you know my ex’s affair, which devastated me at the time, became the impetus for the life I now enjoy.

my focus from how wronged I was to how I could create good for myself and others from it. This book you are reading is but one example.

is feasible that some courageous exploring and creating new meaning can be handled on your own.

When you suffer, either at the hands or words of someone else, yourself, or circumstance, and you take positive, constructive action as a result, you create meaning in your

What if you accepted that your history, the sum of your experiences (both good and bad) contribute to your wholeness and strength, not your weakness?

The wounded, but healed and courageous warrior. All of a sudden, you strip your past of its power and claim it as your own. It’s yours for the taking. And now is the time.

we really love ourselves, everything in our life works. -Louise Hay

focus and purpose in life are to use my communication skills, either through writing, speaking, or radio, to empower women to see themselves in the best light, step into their power, and live happily.

But if we count on what’s around us to give us the internal feelings of confidence, self-worth, peace of mind, and happiness we desire, we give our power away.

But what happens if it doesn’t? Enter a sense of being a powerless victim of circumstance and worse, a failure.

The most valuable asset, regardless of what your resume and balance sheet may look like, is

My success investing in real estate involved seeing an opportunity to increase value with a vision for what could be and sticking to it no matter the obstacles, having the courage to take some calculated risk and take action, hard work, asking for and accepting help when I needed it,

one that looks and feels on the inside and on the outside as the highest and best vision possible.

Own you. Own your life. Recognize your power and create value. Step up. Show up as an investor in you. Appreciate your current value. Maximize your future potential. Why do many women fall short here? Because somehow, we’ve come to believe it’s selfish, and that our value lies only in what we sacrifice for others, thereby putting ourselves last. It’s total bullshit. Make yourself and your rising up to your potential a priority.

So you now realize the importance of taking care of and investing in you. Your physical health is the foundation.

book (prior to this one) or biography of a highly-successful person?

You may have a really intense schedule, but pay attention to the time you have in your day in which you have full freedom to choose what to do, such as the time spent scrolling Facebook or Instagram or watching television.

has allowed me to design the cover for this book, Happy Bitch, Pink Pretty Thoughts, and Share This Journal.

A major part of your worth lies in what you contribute, and what you contribute is based on a combination of your natural talents, skills, and knowledge. I want you to keep

Our physical appearance affects our mental state.

Happiness contributes to your success—big time. Success isn’t the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. It also opens the door to creativity.

Decide to invest in you. Self-appreciation and self-care is an act of love for all. The more you grow and learn, the healthier you are, the better you feel about yourself, the happier you are,

When things don’t add up, start subtracting. -Unknown

“Someday I’ll get to organizing all this stuff I have,” we tell ourselves while simultaneously believing we are lacking, thinking “Someday I’ll have enough.” We’ve oxymoroned ourselves into quite a conundrum, don’t you think?

Let’s back up for a sec and talk about goals, what it is you want.

In an ironic twist of fate, in our pursuit of that which we believe will make us happy, we often times end up overworked and overwhelmed.

Imagine a symphony or even your favorite song without the silence between the notes and words.

I’m talking about the physical space around you. Whether you realize it or not, there is an intimate, reciprocal relationship between your physical surroundings and your mental state.

There’s something else I want you to understand if it hasn’t already occurred to you as a result of this discussion, and it is perhaps the kingpin concept

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. -Thucydides

We’ve talked about how important it is to your health, happiness, and wellbeing to give yourself space and permission to feel “negative” emotions. In doing so, you take the pressure of judgment off of yourself and allow the emotion to be expressed

As you now know, the irony is that by not immediately trying to suppress negativ...

You are not being honest, and you communicate to yourself and those around you that what you want doesn’t matter.

It is your truth. Regularly not voicing your preferences atrophies both your courage muscle and sense of self-worth.

It’s been said that the number one fear is fear of public speaking, and that some fear it more than death.

If you ask me, it goes deeper than public speaking.

That’s what we are really afraid

There was a time in human history that if we were not accepted by the tribe, there was a high likelihood it would mean certain death. If the tribe ostracized you and sent you off into the wilderness,

literally and figuratively would become toast.

This book is about you finding your way back to you and that sense of being in the right skin and life. In the last chapter, we talked about how part of the code to unlocking the life you want to live involves less.

Our upbringing is another source of our adult fears. We are raised to be good little girls, to be polite, and not do or say anything that hurts the feelings of others.

“Courage is

the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear.”

We all experience fear. It’s just that some of us have developed the courage to act in the face of it because we know that what we want and what is...

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