Black and White Version: Synopsis: Imagine how it would feel to be thrown the lion's den and you were the main course. It would be terrifying and life changing right? Divorce, heartbreak, low self-esteem, and loneliness often times feel the same way. What if you can change the way you feel by learning to let go of all that emotional baggage you have been caring with you for all those years? What happens when or if you're special someone decides "they don't love you anymore!" Can you really just "un-love" someone you gave your heart too? How do you "get over" love or should I say "recover" from love? You've spent months maybe even years caring, adoring, putting them before your own needs, constantly seeking new ways to express your affections and devotions for them. Then in a blink of an eye, you must give that up. Most times it's so abrupt your just left devastated with your eyes puffy and bloodshot along with sleeves filled with mascara. There has been no shortage of the amount of advice from different versions basically telling you to just "find someone else." How do you just "STOP" loving someone who has become part of your own soul? My heart didn't just break, it completely stopped. It has been said Love is the world's strongest force and I am just supposed to whip up the strength to WILL it away Is this a more formidable foe this thing we call Love or maybe it's just a monster that eats its own heart. The aching and emptiness that clutches your heart tight, how do you escape? I feel we are really misled as kids, we're taught the Princess kisses the frog and get a Prince. But in my reality, I kiss the frog and get a leech, a pig, a dog or a jackass! So come take a journey with me to discovering the keys to overcoming all the roadblocks that prevent us from having the relationships and healthy emotions that we want and need. With the increasing trend of divorce for the late Baby Boomers of Generation Jones, Generation X and Generation Y, women are crying out for a niche specialty such as self-help. Let's face it, we all have emotional baggage. When choosing a self-help book, not all books are created the same, just as not all people are the same. With that being said, my book offers help to the working class, middle class, and the common people that can't afford help from a high paying Psychologist or Therapist. The language is set in a tone that is easy for the reader to understand, as if I were speaking to you as if you were one of my closest friends giving you advice. For I am, the common people, my advice comes from my own personal life experiences or the life experiences that some of my friends and family have encountered. Real life issues explained with humor, sarcasm, wit, charm and compassion. The book also helps women to avoid the common pitfalls that most "Newbies" to the single world encounter such as the "Serial Dater", "The Player ", "the Cougar Status", "the Momma's Boy", "The Control Freak" "The Knight in Shining Armor" and many more types of men we single gals encounter.. Finally, let's face it. With the increasing trend of divorce, long-term relationships ending, mid-life beginning, marital affairs, broken hearts, social media, on-line dating and all the "BROKEN" men of the world. What woman isn't looking for SomeThing More So let your own personal Journey begin and remember, this is Not your Momma's Self-help Book
About the Author: Sherry Forler, currently resides in Michigan. Freelance Writer, Blogger, Songwriter, Seasoned Social Case Worker, Pathways to Potential Success Coach. The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again, and then tell myself that the mended whole was as good as the new. What is broken is broken and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best, then mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived. Sometimes, divorce is a sign of God's mercy and grace and not a symptom of human failure. So when it's finally over, you need to just step back, reassess the situation, and figure out just who you really are and what exactly you're looking for. The journey to finding SomeThing More, often times left me with a visible sign on my back reading "Welcome to my playground, I have giant mood swings and emotional roller coaster rides!" Enjoy! At one point it was my main goal in life to have a psychiatric condition named after me. I have always written, from poems to songs to "screw you" letters (never sent ha ha), it wasn't until my father became ill that I took writing seriously. I wanted to remember everything about the last days of his life with me, how he felt, how I felt, our talks, our time spent in the hospital. I never wanted to forget the "feelings". So I wrote all my feelings down. Often times we get caught up in the "heat of the moment", or never get to say "goodbye" to loss, or have those " I should of said this or that" moments then we dwell on the lost moment, obsess over it and hold tight to the hurt. For me, writing all those "feelings" of "lost moments" has been a truly positive way to release all the negative and unhealthy feelings of remorse, grief, desperation, loss, abandonment, rejection and guilt. I write about everything from day-to-day life mishaps, to occurrences relating to my job, during my divorce and till now, Life after Divorce. So, I thought I would share my dad's dry sense of humor to the equation, talk about life issues regarding relationships and dating, add a little wisdom from life experiences, and maybe, just maybe, help someone along the way to start their own journey to finding Something More. ajourneytosomethingmore@yahoo.com