Editor's Letter #2: The book (and question) that started it all
Plus your invitation to meet my self-help hero with me TONIGHT
Hello everybody,
I’ve just announced Manifesto by Candice Brathwaite as our BOTM for March and April, and I’ll be sharing more about that (and why you absolutely should join us for the Read-along, starting March 10th) over the next week or so.
But first, before we start hanging out (literally and quite literally) with Candice, I have a VERY special author event - and a quite magical story on the power of self-help - for you.
Tonight, I’ll be hosting an online event for the Club with Paul McKenna to celebrate the launch of his new book, Power Manifesting, The New Science of Getting What you Want.
Paul is a ‘leading modern guru’ (The Times), Britain’s bestselling non-fiction author (15 million books sold in 35 countries) and runs the word’s number-one hypnotherapy training organisation with Mindvalley.
So, there are three excellent reasons to join our VIP event with him tonight, when he’ll be guiding us through some of his favourite mind programming techniques for manifestation, and you’ll have the opportunity to ask him anything.
And tonight’s session will also be an important ‘full circle’ moment for me, and the Club.
To illustrate, I will share a (grainy) bikini picture from 2015 NB: I promise that sharing bikini pictures on here won’t be a regular thing - is it weird that I find it MUCH easier to bare my soul than my body?! 😆 - but this marks a special moment in my - and Shelf Help Club - history, so we’re going with it.
In last week’s Editor’s Letter #1 I talked a lot about reframing and reclaiming.
And I’m now in the happy position of being (mostly) a master of my thoughts and feelings and behaviours.
But the caveat is that it’s taken me 10 years to get here. And that picture, taken just over 10 years ago, while on holiday/escape from THAT JOB in Thailand in January 2015, was the moment it all started.
If you’ve been here a while you’ll know the story about how Paul’s book, Change Your Life in Seven Days, was my gateway book into self-help obsession (and that it took me over a year to read 😄).
That book (first published 2004) opens with a question…