Embracing Your Story: How to Build a Great Life Out of Hardships

When you are poor everything seems harder, takes longer, and costs more. In fact, bad circumstances are just plain exhausting! Embracing Your Story is an honest depiction of a child experiencing the emotional, spiritual, and financial toll that poverty exacts. Smedley shares moving stories about growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother taught her that "tomorrow is your sacred armor against the hopelessness of today." Tomorrow holds your destiny. That is why surviving the obstacles of today is imperative. Embracing Your Story is a blueprint for how to survive hardships. In ten short chapters, Smedley shares stories, lessons learned, and provocative questions to ponder if you are trying to do better in life.

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Embracing Your Story: How to Build a Great Life Out of Hardships

When you are poor everything seems harder, takes longer, and costs more. In fact, bad circumstances are just plain exhausting! Embracing Your Story is an honest depiction of a child experiencing the emotional, spiritual, and financial toll that poverty exacts. Smedley shares moving stories about growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother taught her that "tomorrow is your sacred armor against the hopelessness of today." Tomorrow holds your destiny. That is why surviving the obstacles of today is imperative. Embracing Your Story is a blueprint for how to survive hardships. In ten short chapters, Smedley shares stories, lessons learned, and provocative questions to ponder if you are trying to do better in life.

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Embracing Your Story: How to Build a Great Life Out of Hardships

Embracing Your Story: How to Build a Great Life Out of Hardships

by Alisa Smedley
Embracing Your Story: How to Build a Great Life Out of Hardships

Embracing Your Story: How to Build a Great Life Out of Hardships

by Alisa Smedley

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When you are poor everything seems harder, takes longer, and costs more. In fact, bad circumstances are just plain exhausting! Embracing Your Story is an honest depiction of a child experiencing the emotional, spiritual, and financial toll that poverty exacts. Smedley shares moving stories about growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother taught her that "tomorrow is your sacred armor against the hopelessness of today." Tomorrow holds your destiny. That is why surviving the obstacles of today is imperative. Embracing Your Story is a blueprint for how to survive hardships. In ten short chapters, Smedley shares stories, lessons learned, and provocative questions to ponder if you are trying to do better in life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781953755018
Publisher: Alisa Smedley's Minus 20 Publications
Publication date: 09/26/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 94
File size: 951 KB

About the Author

Alisa Smedley grew up in Cleveland, Ohio surrounded by incarceration, abuse, and poverty. Having a learning disability contributed to her struggles in school. Through determination and grit, she was able to overcome the hardships she faced as a child. Embracing Your Story shares the secrets of her victory and a blueprint for others.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: Minus 20

Chapter 2: Reading the Sports Page

Chapter 3: School

Chapter 4: Summertime

Chapter 5: Push the Car

Chapter 6: Christmas

Chapter 7: A New Years View

Chapter 8: Shoes

Chapter 9: Home

Chapter 10: A Mother's Story

Conclusion

About the Author


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