As I continue down the road of getting my book, Rumble Tumble Joy: A Journey for Healing, Inspiration, and Wholeness, ready to go out into the wider world, I have met my vulnerabilities and fears many times and have been called to move through them and grow through them again and again and again.

I’m now at the stage where I am gathering endorsements and testimonials for Rumble Tumble Joy.  I’m truly grateful for the people who have read my book with sensitivity and openness and shared what they have found and received from my book and their own self-explorations while reading it.

As a preview, here’s what people are saying so far:

To read more endorsements, click here.

My vision is that by releasing Rumble Tumble Joy for a wider readership it can help women and girls look more closely at how they are treating themselves and others (often brutally) and thus make empowering changes in their thinking and behavior so that they can live more joyful and fulfilling lives.  Although this book is primarily written for females, I know many males suffer from these same issues and I am grateful if my book can provide even wider support.

My book can be utilized in book clubs, women's and teenager's classes, college and university course work, retreats, writing workshops, healing circles, and other places where individuals are seeking ways to begin conversations about body image and increasing self-esteem and self-love.

I’m expecting Rumble Tumble Joy to be released in 2014.  

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Thank you for your interest and support.

Namaste.

Are you bored with the same old doodles you draw on napkins, notepads, and meeting agendas?

Do you feel anxious or stressed and need a cheap, easy outlet to release these emotions?

Do you want to do something creative and satisfying?

Try Zen doodling!

You just need paper, pencil, and a pen or marker.  The paper can be cheap or more durable and expensive like watercolor or drawing paper.  You can use a regular ball point pen, but Sharpie markers in fine and ultra fine sizes or the waterproof archival Sakura Pigma Micron pens tend to create more durable and pleasing lines.

At the top of this blog is a photograph of two Zen doodles I recently completed.  The steps:

1) With a pencil, I placed a dot on each corner of my journal page. I did the same with the paper tile.  

2) I connected the dots to form a rectangle or a square (though you can do this zen doodling in any shape such as hearts, circles, and squiggles).  

3) I then started playing with a variety of shapes and lines to create  sections as well as micro designs within sections of my rectangle and square. 

4) Sometimes I used pencil to create the designs and then went over them with the Sharpie marker.  Sometimes I just used the Sharpie marker directly.

As you doodle, you become focused and relaxed.  It's like the wonderful “flow” state that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about in his book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.

Need some doodle design ideas to help with your creations?

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Chapter titles include: Feeling Good About Bad Emotions, Relating to the Imperfection in Others, Creating Through Uncertainty, and Finding Meaning in Mistakes.

With each topic, Polly offers helpful tips and practices to change your unsupportive belief systems, shift your perspectives, and enjoy your life more.  And it's all shared in a cheerful, down-to-earth way like talking with your best friend while indulging in a big slice of delicious chocolate cake. 

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And as we watch the interweaving of these threads of specific lifetimes, we see actions, reactions, and consequences.  Yet, how direct are these linkages and how much is meaningful, meaningless, fate, destiny, personal evolution, and societal evolution remains somewhat obscure.  

This film includes an all star cast: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, and others.  Each actor is transformed by make-up and prosthetics as they become a new person in another lifetime—linked, but different.

Watch this film, discuss it with others, and/or read the book.  The message is provocative and inspires meaningful conversation.

Bush has a secret, something he has carried with him for years.  It has burned a hole in his psyche and life, so much so that he has hidden himself away from society.  In the absence of his presence, all sorts of stories are circulated about him—none of them good.

One day, feeling his mortality, Bush enlists the help of Quinn and his assistant to gather everyone who has a story to tell about him to his “funeral party.”  This party will be held with Bush attending while he is still alive.

And as the details of the funeral party are dealt with, revelations unfold about Bush and several other characters.  

By the end of the film, you will deeply understand Maya Angelou’s statement that “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

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