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    Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity
    Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity
    Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity
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    Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity

    By SARK

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    Though SARK has empowered millions to live their creative dreams, manage their businesses, and savor personal connections, the deaths of her mother and cat and the end of a treasured relationship tested her ability to walk her talk. But as Glad No Matter What shows, she journeyed through the spirals and layers of grief and loss and emerged stronger and more whole. In this inspiring book, she shares the insights she found along the way — practical strategies we can all use to cultivate profound, positive transformation through, rather than despite, life’s inevitable travails.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateDec 16, 2011
    ISBN9781608680344
    Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity
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    SARK

    SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is the bestselling author and artist of eighteen books, including national bestsellers Succulent Wild Woman, Eat Mangoes Naked, and Make Your Creative Dreams Real. Her art, programs, products, and services have been treasured around the world. She is an acclaimed teacher and mentor whose wisdom has touched and transformed the lives of millions. She is also the founder and Creative Fountain of Planet SARK, a thriving business that creates innovative products and services to support empowered living. She lives and creates joyfully in San Francisco with her beloved partner David. You can visit her website at PlanetSARK.com.  

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    • 3/5
      This was my first exposure to SARK's writing, aside from her posters. It was a gift from a former co-worker as I left my job at the San Francisco Public Library. At the time, I didn't feel very gracious about the transition, and so it has taken me a while to finish reading this.

      "Glad No Matter What" is primarily a book about the type of loss and change that surrounds the death of a loved one, but I could apply some of it to the loss and change I am currently experiencing as I transition to my new home. SARK's unbridled enthusiasm and good nature bursts from every page, and it is difficult not to be cheered by her multicolored scrawls.

      My favorite portion of her book was about her "emotional GPS" and how she notices negative thought patterns and reactions as she is having them, then tells herself "recalculating" as she finds a new "emotional route". I chuckled over this, and then gave it some thought. Sometimes I feel very guilty about my negative responses to things while feeling helpless to change them. But with the emotional GPS idea, I can recalculate negative reactions into less negative responses.

      I admit to skimming over some parts that were simply too spiritual for my tastes, but I remain an admirer of SARK as a creative force and a positive influence in a cynical world.

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    SARK has done it again. She’s taken the harrowing life challenges of dealing with loss and change, turned them upside down, and created a powerful healing path that will calm fears, warm hearts, and transform lives forever. Way to go, SARK!

    author of Take Time for Your Life and The Art of Extreme Self-Care

    SARK lives her words — that’s the most important thing — and her authenticity lends authority and power, and beauty and joy, to her writing. Whether you read through or dip into this book, you’ll find helpful, life-affirming reminders on any page — not about positive thinking but about positive living.

    author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior and The Four Purposes of Life

    "In Glad No Matter What, SARK reminds us that life presents each one of us with unique and incredible gifts all wrapped up in different ways. We each must delve deep down and find the courage to open those gifts and rejoice to see how they will change our soul. This book is your guide on how to open those gifts!"

    spiritual medium and author of Unfinished Business

    "SARK has birthed yet another profound gift in her latest work, Glad No Matter What. She shows the gifts in healing from loss with her approachable and simple language, illustrating the kind of transformation that is possible as we dare to mend our broken hearts."

    author of Heartbroken Open and Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff for Women

    "SARK’s wisdom, compassion, joy, and humor are among the brightest lights I know. In Glad No Matter What, she offers outstanding tools and inspiration to make everything you encounter work in your favor. I wish everyone would read this book and bring these heartful lessons to life!"

    author of A Daily Dose of Sanity

    SARK gives you practical, real ways to find your joy. Happiness is in your ability to navigate the real-life ups and downs in a way that is honest and generates more ‘gladness’ and gratitude by being truthful about where you are. This is a wonderful and tangible book that will help so many authentically smile from the inside.

    author, actress, health enthusiast, and adventurer

    "Glad No Matter What is a powerful and honest companion on the journey to emotional healing. The book resonates with compassion and wisdom. Each page seems to say, ‘You can trust me. I have been there. I will guide you.’"

    author of Forgive for Good

    "Glad No Matter What is a profound and important book. SARK’s passion, vulnerability, and wisdom are on display, as always! With this book, she shows us how to see the gift in difficulty and to transform loss in beautiful ways."

    author of Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken

    "This reassuring,

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