Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal with It

by Roz Van Meter

Overview

"Roz Van Meter offers solid advice on how to face life as a grown-up based upon her years of experience as a life coach… Simply put, Roz is warm, wise, and the girlfriend you have always wanted."—Reader Review

With this insightful, touching, and often hilarious guide, Roz takes you from Training Pants straight through to Big Girl Panties, with plenty of laughs and lots of valuable advice along the way. This book will help you embrace self-care but also give you the tough love you need to escape your self-defeating patterns. Figure out how to tackle your problems like an adult, while protecting and cherishing your inner Little Girl.

Rife with deeply personal, perhaps slightly embarrassing and often hysterical personal stories from the author herself, Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal With It is the guidebook for real women ready to take charge of their own lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402250446
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	203 KB

About the Author

Roz Van Meter is a licensed marriage, family and sex therapist, and a certified Life Coach. She has counseled 10,000 people in 28 years of private practice. She has been featured in USA Weekend and Family Circle, and is a source for Cosmo and Redbook. She lives in Dallas, Texas.

Roz Van Meter is a licensed marriage, family and sex therapist, and a certified Life Coach. She has counseled 10,000 people in 28 years of private practice. She has been featured in USA Weekend and Family Circle, and is a source for Cosmo and Redbook. She lives in Dallas, Texas.

Read an Excerpt

Introduction

Life itself is the proper binge.
—Julia Child

Becky and her husband Greg were walking through the mall one day, heading for a movie, when a girl walked toward them wearing a T-shirt that said, "Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!"
Greg laughed. "Somebody ought to write a book with that title."
Becky answered, "And I know just the person who could do it, my old buddy back in Dallas."
The movie they went to see featured Barbra Streisand as a flamboyant red-headed sex therapist named Roz. She was a hoot. As they walked out, Becky looked up at Greg and said sweetly, "Did I happen to mention that my buddy back in Dallas is a flamboyant red-headed sex therapist named Roz?"
They phoned me with the idea, came down from Colorado to talk about it, and the next thing I knew, I was writing this book.
Big Girl Panties is a story salad. As books will do, it took on a life of its own, informing me as I wrote. I'd started with the attitude of "Big Girl Panties are mature and capable, Little Girl Britches are childish and ineffective." Before long, though, I rediscovered an enormous truth: they are both wonderful and amazing, when worn at the right times.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Women Rule!

Chapter Two: A Loving Letter

Chapter Three: The Kid in the Pull-Ups

Chapter Four: Rewriting Your Story

Chapter Five: Shuck Those Procrastination Panties

Chapter Six: Untwist Your Knickers

Chapter Seven: Aunties in Panties

Chapter Eight: The Penny Stretch

Chapter Nine: Who Gets Past Your Gatekeeper?

Chapter Ten: Big Girl Valentine Panties

Chapter Eleven: Your Passion Quotient

Chapter Twelve: Bodacious Beauty Britches

Chapter Thirteen: Alphabet of Self-Care

Chapter Fourteen: In Defense of Little Girl Britches