You're Here For a Reason by Rebecca Kirk~Blog Tour(extract)

 Publisher: Bannister Publications Ltd

Publication Date: 23rd September 2023

Genre: Spiritual/Self Help

Review:
Something a little different for today's tour! My copy of the book hasn't quite made it into my hands yet(I think the postman is having a read before handing it over) so instead of a review, I'm going to post an extract of the book provided by Random Things Book Tours and Rebecca Kirk so you can all have a sneak peek of what's inside. But I will be reviewing as soon as I get my hands on the book, so look out for my review coming soon!
Extract

Practices for trusting your path

Here are some suggested practices for you to try, which can help you let go of attaching and grasping and begin to trust your path more.

1. Observe your thoughts and feelings

·        Begin by identifying the thoughts you are having about your next career move or those which underly any actions you might currently be taking, such as searching for new jobs.

·        Do you suspect that those thoughts come from a place of trust or from a place of fear? Is there a sense of flow and ease behind them? Or do you suspect you might be chasing or hustling in some way?

·        Now tune in to the feelings and the energy in your body when you think about your career path and any changes you are trying to make.

·        Is that energy light and spacious? Or does it feel heavy or burdened, perhaps with a knot in your stomach? Your body will always give you the clues you need.

·        Once you have observed any thoughts and feelings stemming from attachment and grasping, you then have a choice to instead call in trust.

2. Visualise letting go

• Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths to connect within.

·        Set your intention around what you want to create, achieve or experience (you could start out with something smaller and more immediate than finding your purpose)

·        Imagine putting that intention and all that you hope it will bring you into a balloon. Fill the balloon with your deepest wishes and any associated positive emotions.

·        Tie the balloon with a piece of coloured string (whatever colour you feel drawn to).

·        Visualise the details on your hand as you loosen your grip on the string and then let the string go and the balloon be taken by the wind.

·        As it soars into the sky, trust that Divine Timing is at work and that the Universe where it will be received with love and support.

·        As it soars into the sky, trust that Divine Timing is at work and that the Universe will support you with your intention in a way which is for your highest good.

 
I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek at You're Here for a Reason, and look out for my full review coming soon!

Krystina xx

No More Faking It by Magda Kay~Blog Tour

 

Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: 25th April 2023

Genre: Health and Wellbeing

Summary:

No More Faking It: A Woman's Guide to Getting the Love, Pleasure, and Fulfillment She Deeply Desires

Are you tired of pretending everything is okay in your relationships? Do you find yourself putting others' needs before your own and feeling unfulfilled? Do you feel stuck in the same dynamic where your needs always come last? No More Faking It is your ultimate guide to breaking free from this cycle and embracing the love, pleasure, and fulfillment you deserve.

Written specifically for women seeking dating advice and relationship advice, this powerful guide teaches you how to live your most authentic life, honor your needs, and reclaim your power. Intimacy coach and founder of the School of Intimacy, Magda Kay, shares her revolutionary "F" power method to help every woman stop settling – because you deserve to get everything you desire in your relationships, in the bedroom, and in life.

Inside No More Faking It, you'll discover:

• Practical advice for choosing the right partner and building healthy, loving relationships
• Inspiring stories that demonstrate the power of authenticity and self-love
• Guided exercises to help you honor your truth, needs, and boundaries
• Strategies for making sure your needs are met and living a truly fulfilling life
• Empowering insights to break free from the cycle of bad relationships

With No More Faking It, you'll learn how to prioritize yourself and your own needs, ensuring that you never again settle for less than you deserve. Say goodbye to picking the wrong partners or giving bad partners too many chances – it's time to take control of your love life and embrace the power of authenticity!

Whether you're single, dating, or in a committed relationship, this insightful book is a must-read for every woman who wants to experience the love, pleasure, and fulfillment she deeply desires. Don't wait any longer to transform your relationships and start living your best life 

Review:
Firstly thank you to Love Books Tours, and Magda Kay for having me on this tour and sending me the book.

I wanted to read this book because of one specific line in the blurb "Do you find yourself putting others' needs before your own..." because, as I'm sure other mums will attest, when you become a mum you do then tend to put yourself to the back of the queue when it comes to importance. And you have a habit of using up all your spoons making sure others get when they need and then not having enough for your own self-care. So I thought this might be a good book to help me refocus and reorganise my internal importance list.

It is an interesting method and not one I've heard of before, and think it sounds like a good way to reconnect with yourself. We all have points in our lives where we feel disconnected from ourselves and working through each of the four Powers I think would definitely help with that. It's written in a very easy-to-read and digest style, Magda wanted it in an informal chatting-with-your-friends style and she has achieved that, it reads as such.
The quiz in the middle of the book was fun, but I didn't feel it pinpointed anything for me Personally I'm not sure the book is for me. Whilst it was interesting and written in an easy-to-digest way, I really struggled to connect with it, i read it from cover to cover but I'm not sure I would go back and do any of the meditations again.

Krystina xx

Heal Your Body and Mind with Yin Yoga By Miranda Mattig Kumar ~Blog Tour

 Publisher: Quadrant Books

Publication Date: 1st March 2023

Genre: Mind-Body Medicine

Summary:

This new book by Yin Yoga expert Miranda Kumar helps achieve deep relaxation in an overstimulated world through the power of Yin Yoga. This simple, well-designed, and fully colour illustrated guidebook is a detailed handbook to practising Yin Yoga relaxation techniques with ease, and its many benefits are provided by comprehensive Yin Yoga illustrations, diagrams and additional interactive online exercise sessions available via our YouTube channel, which can be easily accessed by QR codes through your mobile phone. Stress, pain, anxiety is all a result of our fast-paced and sometimes impersonal and unforgiving society. If you add a lack of physical activity, recurring ailments like back, hip, or shoulder pain may affect your quality of life. It is important to understand how essential it is to adopt regular movement and activity that helps to reintegrate the mind-body connection. You will then begin to experience the benefit of that integration in your daily life through better sleep and enhanced mood. That is why Yin, a Yoga discipline, can be beneficial to young and old, male, and female alike and is easily accessible to everyone. Practising Yin Yoga postures which are maintained for several minutes allows the mind to calm and reconnect. You will also discover a particular meditation or creative visualization that works well for you to integrate your mind, body, and spirit. See more at www.yin-yoga.pro

Review:

Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Quadrant Books and Miranda Mattig Kumar for having me on this tour and for sending me a copy of the book to review.
Now I have to admit that I love the idea of doing yoga but I'm so bad at keeping up with a yoga practice! So I do love a book that I can use to try and keep one going. But I do have to say this was a little more than that, it's got a really thorough explanation of what yoga is, to begin with, and before we even get to any yoga poses she explains all about human anatomy and physiology. And it's a nicely-thought-out explanation, we get very medical textbook-like images combined with easy-to-follow explanations, and seemingly very minimal medical jargon which makes it a much easier read. Each section is really well written, you can tell she knows her subject very well, and I haven't yet but I will use the QR code to watch some of her video tutorials. That said I loved how detailed the description of each of the poses were and that it had Alterations and modifications for each one so you could fit your own abilities.
Its a book I defiantly look forward to trying yoga from, and I might even manage to stick with it this time!

Krystina xx

Learn to Let Go by John Purkiss~Blog Tour

 Publisher: Aster

Publication Date: 6th April 2023

Genre: Self Help

Summary:

If you learn to let go, your life will take off.

How is negative thinking affecting your success? Are you holding on to a story about your life? Are you allowing judgement and pain to weigh you down?

Learn to let go and turn your dreams into reality with this beautifully illustrated, guided journal from the bestselling author of The Power of Letting Go. Learn how to stay present, let go of the thoughts that keep you stuck, and tune into something far more intelligent than your brain using the creative exercises, writing prompts and techniques in this journal - and start living a life of freedom and success.

Review:

Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Aster and John Purkiss for having me on this tour and for sending me a copy of the book to review.
Now I haven't read The Power of Letting Go, but after reading through this journal I think I might have to pick it up. Not because you can't read one without the other, this journal is defiantly something you can read and work through without having read The Power of Letting Go but because after going through the journal I think I might benefit from being able to use both together. It's a lovely-sized book and feels really nice in your hand because it fits so well, and the cover is kind of what you'd expect from a self-help book it's nice and calming. 
I've read through the whole book cover to cover but I do think its the kind of book you can dip in and out of, and as the author says you can come back to exercises if you don't feel you've gained anything from it when you've done it this time. And I really liked that about it, it has an easy flow to it. Now I'm not one for writing in books and that combined with the fact that these are exercises you can do multiple times means I just grabbed a notebook to keep with the journal to write in, and I think that its good to reflect back on the last time you did the exercise and see what's changed.
I've really enjoyed reading and working through this book(not that I'm done yet), it's a book you can work through at your own pace taking as long as you need and whilst I've read it all to be able to review it's now something that I'm going back over to work through at a slower pace. I think this is a really good book for the current climate, with all that's occurred over the past few years I think a lot of us are holding onto fears and worries and this book can help us shed them and move forward.


Krystina xx

Maybe you should give up by Byron Morrison~ Blog Tour

 Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Publication Date: 27th June 2023

Genre: Self Help

Summary:

After years of being his own worst enemy, Byron Morrison knows exactly how frustrating the never-ending cycle of hard work, expectation, and minimal results can be. Maybe You Should Give Up is Morrison's answer to the question: how can anyone achieve their dreams if hard work isn't enough?It seems like every self-help book and personal development program is the same these days, preaching that if someone just does more and pushes harder, they can achieve the life of their dreams. This expectation doesn't often work with long-term results, which leaves many people to face the unfortunate reality of never reaching their goals.Why? Because despite their good intentions, they get in their own way, sabotaging themselves and becoming the biggest stumbling block in the way of their success.Tired of going 'round in circles, Byron Morrison realized he needed to do something different. He gave up--not on his goals and dreams, accepting a life of mediocrity lying on the couch--but on being controlled by fear. He gave up living in the past. He gave up comparing himself to others. He gave up on being so hard on himself. And he gave up putting off his happiness.And it worked. He was able to get out of his own way and finally take control of his life.Maybe You Should Give Up explains how to throw out the rule book, break the mold and do something different. Byron Morrison's approach helps readers identify 7 areas of their life that cause them to get in their own way and keep them stuck in a self-destructive cycle; he models how to give up on what holds a person back--to finally take control of the life they want and deserve.

Review:

Firstly thank you to Love Books Tours, Morgan James Publishing and Byron Morrison for having me on the tour and sending me a copy of the book to review.
I was really intrigued by this book, from the moment the email hit my inbox to see if I wanted on this tour I was eager to read it. And I'm really glad that I have, it's brilliantly well-written and to me everything Byron Morrison says makes sense. At the beginning of the book, the author asks you to raise your hands if what he's saying is familiar and I have to admit my hand was raised ( which caused my small one to ask what mummy wanted) because I am guilty of getting in my own way when trying to succeed with goals. So I knew from the introduction that this book was defiantly for me.
Aside from being well written, it's written in such a nice easy-to-follow way, it's been broken down into steps and each step has its own chapter, nothing feels too overwhelming. And unlike most self-help books that sit and tell you how wrong you've been doing everything and berate you for not making changes sooner, I don't come away from this book feeling like I've been told off. I feel like I have someone there (admittedly in book form) to help me move through these challenges to change my way of thinking and stop self-sabotaging. 
It's a book that defiantly needs another read to take it all in properly and make changes and so I'll be keeping it on my shelf for now.

Krystina xx

The Wisdom of Flowers by Liz Marvin ~ Blog Tour

Publisher: LOM ART

Publication Date: 6th July 2023

Genre: Well-being/self-help

Summary:

Taking sixty of the world’s most amazing flowers and flowering plants, including the corpse flower from Indonesia, the bat-face cuphea and the chocolate cosmos flower from Mexico, the Pohutukawa tree from New Zealand, the lipstick tree and the giant water lily from South America, the voodoo lily from the Mediterranean, the lesser-known plum blossom and the skeleton flower from Japan, and not forgetting the beautiful jade vine from the Philippines, this book will share their unique symbolism and the characteristics and strengths that allow them to thrive, inspiring us to follow their example and make the most of every moment.

Review:
Firstly thank you to Love Books Tours, LOM ART and Liz Marvin for having me on this blog tour and for sending me a copy of the book to review. It's a stunning book, the illustrations are unbelievably beautiful.Even if there was nothing else you liked about this book its worth having it on your shelf for the illustrations alone! But the book itself is brilliant too, i read it cover to cover but i think its much more a dip in when you feel like it kind of book. Its the kind of book where you'd grab it and randomly flick to a page to see what wisdom and stories its going to give you today. The flower facts were really interesting and i learnt about flowers i didn't know existed, whilst i do enjoy gardening my knowledge is by no means extensive so i also learnt about the flowers i was aware of.
I loved the language used in it too, it felt kind of soothing, which i know is an odd thing to say about writing but its true. Its a book that i think would be a lovely gift, especially for a gardener but i think anyone would enjoy its soothing effects.

Krystina xx

The Clear Method by Carolyn Creel ~Blog Tour

Publisher: The Unbound Press

Publication Date: 21st March 2023

Genre: Mind-Body Medicine

Summary:

The CLEAR Method is for everyone.

The CLEAR Method is here to shake (and vac) up the way we have lived our lives for years – so much more than a book on cleaning your house; it will help you shift stuck energy and get into Flow.

On a practical level, it declutters the chaos of life. Energetically, it helps you focus and see more clearly. Emotionally, it helps to shift outdated ways of thinking that have kept you stuck in a rut.

Author Carolyn guides you through her tried and tested methods to Clear, Let Go, Energise, Act and Receive in all areas of life – to ease-fully declutter the physical and emotional clutter of life.

Review:

 First thank you to Love Books Tours, The Unbound Press and Carolyn Creel for having me on this tour and for gifting me a copy of the book to review.

So I was looking forward to diving into this book because it and the tour came on my radar as I was really in the mood to have a right good clear out! And I've really enjoyed reading it, the clear out less so because I've ended up reading ahead of where I was in the process and got a little muddled( my fault for poor time management) but I know ill be going back to this book and the method to help declutter my home and my mind.
I liked the little quizzes, though the get in the clear zone one I didn't find very helpful purely because I didn't have one clear winning outcome so I chose to read my way through the book instead of skipping to the indicated sections but the quizzes themselves I did like.
I loved having all the meditation and guided meditations in it, giving me new ways to switch up my meditation practice, I also really enjoyed the journalling aspects of it. I'm not much of one for journalling, but I liked that we had these elements in it to encourage us to reflect on what we'd done and I really loved that we had them all collected together in a section so you don't need to flip flop around the book to search for the one you need at that moment.
It's written in a really easy straight forward to follow way, much like the author's approach to decluttering (which I really appreciated) and their cleaning tips (gotta love a cleaning tip).
The tandem nature of decluttering your mind and home is one a really can get on board with and I loved the gentle spiritual nature of it(I know the spiritual aspect may seem full on to some but I thought it softly spread throughout in an accessible way).
It's a book that won't stay on my shelf long, purely because I'll be constantly picking it up to use!

Krystina xx

Finding your way Home by Victoria Nielsen ~ Blog Tour

 

Publisher: The Unbound Press

Publication Date: 2nd March 2023

Genre: Mind-Body Medicine

Summary:

You're more than your miscarriage, mama.

When a routine OB appointment brought tragic news in 2018, Victoria was left shocked, shaken, and cleaved in two. Instead of letting it make her feel small, she used this sacred loss as a catalyst to expand. To blossom. And to give herself the love she always deserved.

Find Your Way Home takes you through Victoria's journey of choosing joy, connecting with her intuition, and honoring her inner child after miscarriage, so you can learn to do the same.

This book of inspiring words, energy, and embodiment practices comes from Victoria's heart to help you navigate whatever part of the motherhood journey you're currently on. Allowing you to realize you are your own medicine and healer, and that you are so much more than the things that have happened to you. You can move through and come out the other side better than you ever thought possible. You can find the light again.

Review:

Thank you to Love Books Tours, Victoria Nielsen and The Unbound Press for having me on this book tour and for sending me a copy of the book to review.
I was slightly apprehensive about reading this book, myself having had miscarriages and not knowing how I would react to the book. And actually, I really connected with it and parts resonated with me. I really liked how it was written and the spiritual aspects to it, in fact, though I did like the poetry I felt there could have been fewer poems and more on Akashic Records and the journalling.
Personally, I feel a book with a journal aspect to it, using the practice that Victoria mentioned would be something that would benefit those struggling with the loss and grief of miscarriage. And I would definitely buy it, because this book brought forward things for me, and I'm grateful it did.
I have to say the cover drew me in first, it is beautiful and very much suits the book.
It's well-written, personal and beautifully spiritual, a book id defiantly recommend.


Krystina xx