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    I Got This!
    I Got This!
    I Got This!
    Ebook90 pages37 minutes

    I Got This!

    By Eve Brownstone

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    During the drama of the campaign of 2016, I made a conscious choice to focus on Love, the many faces of love instead of the negative voices. I used the tools of words and art in a healing practice that I have developed over twenty-five years as an expressive arts therapist. I explored: romantic love, fears about love, feeling lit up within, what I call “heart fire” and much more. I drew on universal themes such as: loneliness, what is unconditional love?, self-love, self-empowerment, feelings, identity, home, choices and more.

    As I reached one-hundred and fifty blog posts, I decided to put together a book on self-love and self-empowerment called I Got This! I include writing from the blog but also writing from twenty-five years ago, ten years ago, five years ago, two years ago...

    I decided not to wait for an agent or publisher, but to publish myself with the help of an editor friend. I Got This! is something I have always wanted to write and to share part of my journey. I made a conscious choice to show up for myself. I created the keys to my own life by writing this book. This process makes me feel like I can do even more. I Got This!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEve Brownstone
    Release dateJul 20, 2017
    ISBN9781370036646
    I Got This!
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    Eve Brownstone

    Eve Brownstone is also the author of Opening New Doors, a book of poetry and process, which examines a journey from fear to love. Letting Go/Going On is a booklet for healing from sexual trauma. Born In Relationship tells the story of one identical twin's search for herself and healthy relationships. Her work has been featured in the Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune and the WGN Morning Show and Twins Day Festival. She has presented for: Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault Conference in Springfield, IL and American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama in Toronto, Canada. Eve is a certified Psychodramatist. Eve lives and works in Chicago. Most mornings you can find Eve down at the beach to greet the sunrise.

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      Book preview

      I Got This! - Eve Brownstone

      Thinking about Love

      This year I thought about love.

      I wrote a book of love poems.

      Thinking and feeling love are two different animals.

      One is full of tulips and chocolates the other has teeth and Dragon breath.

      For god sakes I was married.

      Not sure I know what Love is….

      Love can be Scary

      This year I received over 200 happy birthday wishes on Facebook.

      The next day I sobbed.

      My heart was overwhelmed with so much love.

      What’s wrong with me?

      Why does love freak me out?

      This is Where it Started

      Imake people prove themselves to me with money, food, time, or feelings. You must love me exactly the way I want. In turn, I feel like I have to be a certain way to be loved. It has been hard for me to see others as separate from me. This could be due to being an identical twin. It has taken me longer to grow up. I am growing and learning to be Eve.

      I decided this year to stop pushing myself into my constant dance of doing and just give myself time to: sit with me, learn about me, and maybe even learn to trust me. Wow, what a concept! I can trust and even like me. But, it takes daily commitment to show up for me and not everybody else.

      Maybe if I give myself a break from being a certain way I can give others a break.

      Taking care of everybody else even if they didn’t want or need my help just comes naturally to me. It often goes like this:

      EVE: Let me help you!

      THEM: NO!

      EVE: Let me help you!

      THEM: NO! I don’t need anything from you. I don’t love you. I don’t care about you. You are unlovable! ( What I hear.)

      The worst! It feels like bumper cars. I never hear:

      I am not interested. I am ok. I don’t need your help, but I would like your company.

      Someone really seeing me scares the shit out of me. It’s also what I long for the most. My idea of love pushes back and teaches me to stop and listen to my own heart. I need to just stop

      running from my feelings,

      running from myself,

      running from my own life

      This book is my personal journey, but it pulls on universal themes of connection, identity, love, freedom, loneliness, and choice. As you read it just ask yourself:

      What does love feel like for me? How can I love myself more?

      A Little Self-Love

      This week I got back to the beach.

      I got back to the sunrise.

      It’s a time of day between 5am-8am

      when I feel most connected with myself and my higher power.

      I sit in the quiet of the waves and the seagulls and hear myself breathe.

      For me a perfect day starts and ends at the beach in stillness or play.

      More of what I love:

      Hanging out with family and friends

      Laughing

      Hearing people’s stories

      Being myself

      Writing in a coffee shop

      Painting on canvas

      Dancing with silly partners

      Not taking myself

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