Believe It and Behave It: How to Restart, Reset, and Reframe Your Life

by Kate Harvie

Overview

Are you suffering through anger, self-doubt, and failure in quiet desperation? Discover how to conquer adversity and take back your life.

Are you frustrated that your brain and body seem to be failing you when you need them most? Coping with an unexpected injury, insult, or public humiliation? Author and speaker Kate Harvie lost nearly everything to a traumatic brain injury. Through countless mistakes and blunt perseverance, she reclaimed her life. Now she's sharing her no-nonsense process for recovering from any setback with you.

In Believe It and Behave It: How to Restart, Reset, and Reframe Your Life, Harvie shares how she came back from rock bottom to find herself again. With her take-no-prisoners attitude and a powerful sense of humor, you'll learn how to kick your inner shame and hatred to the curb. No matter what your personal setback, the author's anecdotes will help you find new opportunities to make yourself better and stronger than ever before.

In Believe It and Behave It, you'll discover:

- How to come back from being "off the grid" and re-acclimate to life

- How to flip previous failures into unexpected opportunities

- How to conquer a lack of support by standing up, showing up, and speaking up for yourself and others

- How to make peace with who you once were and who you are now

- How to reclaim your presence and your significance and much more

Believe It and Behave It is your roadmap to starting your successful second act. If you like inspiring real-life stories, practical blueprints for overcoming fear, and actionable advice, then you'll love Kate Harvie's message-packed memoir.

Buy Believe It and Behave It to formulate, activate, and live your comeback!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640851207
Publisher:	Kate Harvie
Publication date:	12/06/2017
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.29(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1. How It All Began . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2. Starting from Scratch – Making Sense of That (or trying to) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3. Time as a Gift and Time as a Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4. The Personal: Taking and Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

5. Socializing, or “Socializing” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

6. Dating: When You’re Ready and What Ready Actually Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

7. From Off the Grid to On the Grid: Recovery in the “Real” World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

8. The Job Thing: Looking for One and Needing One . . . 59

9. The Job Thing: “Getting To” Can Preclude Getting One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

10. The Personal, the Sequel: Quick to Talk Makes Quick to Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

11. Ghosts: How to Manage Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

12. Working: A Job Where the Puzzle Pieces Don’t Fit . . 89

13. Coaches, Guides, Teachers: Learning From Them and Refusing Them . . . . . . . . 96

14. Who is Important. Why is More Important. . . . . . . 106

15. Facts: What I Know Now and What I Will Always Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Editorial Reviews

“Yes. Finally a book that explores the complexities of guilt, insecurity, love, compassion, reflection, and resilience. Your nakedness had me in tears. The words on the page scream gratitude and acceptance. We want the ultimate life spree; this is the blueprint to do the work. Thank you, Kate, for sharing your journey and pivot with us in Believe It and Behave It: How to Restart, Reset, and Reframe Your Life.”

Karen Taylor-Bass

PR Expert and Bestselling Author

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“Starting over can be scary. When you’re letting go of who you once were and what life once was, it can be a vulnerable and lonely time navigating the negative self-talk. Believe It and Behave It: How to Restart, Reset, and Reframe Your Life is a book about hope and resilience. Kate Harvie’s story is not only jaw-dropping and inspiring because she cheated death and learned how to rebuild her life, the wisdom she shares will help you understand that you are not alone – and, most importantly, you already are enough.”

Berni Xiong

Author of The Year of the Brave Bear and The Way of the Brave Bear

Contributing author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time to Thrive

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