Seven Soulful Secrets: For Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission

By Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Book Overview

From the author of Daily Cornbread, Seven Soulful Secrets will motivate women to become not just better than they are but the best they can be. In a tone that is as encouraging and comforting as your favorite quilt, veteran journalist and NiaOnline editor in chief Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows women of all ages how to get the most out of life by finding their purpose and minding their mission. In seven wonderfully crafted chapters, Stokes Oliver reveals her soulful secrets in a simple but potent acronym that spells PURPOSE. * P urpose: plan, persevere, and follow your own personal mission * U ltimacy: release your best, "ultimate" self * R elaxation: reduce stress and incorporate daily self-care into your routine * P ositivity: claim the joy in your life and celebrate yourself * O ptimum health: make the commitment to self-improvement, health, and fitness * S pirituality: develop and maintain a connection to God/Spirit * E steem: boost your self-esteem and create healthy relationships At once a practical how-to book and a spiritual guide, Seven Soulful Secrets speaks directly to the African American women who embraced Daily Cornbread and to all women eager to live a life that is authentic, vibrant, and fulfilling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767905822
• ISBN13: 9780767905824
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Magical Book For Finding One's Life Purpose

With the explosive arena of self-help and self-empowering books in the literary marketplace, Stephanie Stokes Oliver's Seven Soulful Secrets is a refreshing self-improvement guide for all women. The author communicates in a reader-friendly voice interspersed with examples of individuals' positive transformations, exercises to begin a new path of purpose and insightful questions to begin daily journals. There is much to interest everyone who wants to glean insights from the keen and sage wisdom contained within these pages.This book has seven chapters detailing each letter of the word purpose. Purpose is an acronym for the words purpose, ultimacy, relaxation, positivity, optimum health, spirituality, and esteem. Purpose is pursuing your soul's higher needs. Ultimacy is maintaining a kinship with your spirit in a uniquely ultimate way. Relaxation is explained with stress-prevention strategies and an award-winning rose petal footbath recipe. Positivity shows the shaping of joyful, uplifting, and affirmative self-talk to manifest positive energies within you and toward others. Optimum health is achieved by a commitment to physical and mental fitness. Spirituality is the basis for attaining and finding your life's purpose. Esteem knows your lovability and worth.Words have wings, like birds, to fly through the sky of the mind. With Seven Soulful Secrets, you'll be soaring above the clouds with the confidence and knowledge to strengthen your life's mission. This is an inspiring and extremely enlightening book that I highly recommend.Reviewed byLottaHoneyAPOOO BookClub

A Magical Book for Finding One's Life Purpose

... With the explosive arena of self-help and self-empowering books in the literary marketplace, Stephanie Stokes Oliver's Seven Soulful Secrets is a refreshing self-improvement guide for all women. The author communicates in a reader-friendly voice interspersed with examples of individuals' positive transformations, exercises to begin a new path of purpose and insightful questions to begin daily journals. There is much to interest everyone who wants to glean insights from the keen and sage wisdom contained within these pages.This book has seven chapters detailing each letter of the word purpose. Purpose is an acronym for the words purpose, ultimacy, relaxation, positivity, optimum health, spirituality, and esteem. Purpose is pursuing your soul's higher needs. Ultimacy is maintaining a kinship with your spirit in a uniquely ultimate way. Relaxation is explained with stress-prevention strategies and an award-winning rose petal footbath recipe. Positivity shows the shaping of joyful, uplifting, and affirmative self-talk to manifest positive energies within you and toward others. Optimum health is achieved by a commitment to physical and mental fitness. Spirituality is the basis for attaining and finding your life's purpose. Esteem knows your lovability and worth.Words have wings, like birds, to fly through the sky of the mind. With Seven Soulful Secrets, you'll be soaring above the clouds with the confidence and knowledge to strengthen your life's mission. This is an inspiring and extremely enlightening book that I highly recommend.Reviewed byLottahoney ...