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    Unlabeled Life: How to Shred Your Labels and Reveal Your True Self!
    Unlabeled Life: How to Shred Your Labels and Reveal Your True Self!
    Unlabeled Life: How to Shred Your Labels and Reveal Your True Self!
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    Unlabeled Life: How to Shred Your Labels and Reveal Your True Self!

    By LeeAnne Mendenhall

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    Who are you, really? Short. Tall. Fat. Attractive. Boring. Shy. Fun. Bossy. Inept. Clumsy. Untalented. Athletic. Ditzy. Timid. Weak. Smart. Immature. Bitchy. Cold. Failure. Religious. Geek. Perfectionist. Lazy.
    Labels are a smokescreen. They don't tell us anything that truly matters about the person being described. We've all been labeled in our lives. We wear these labels that mold our perception and influence all our choices.
    LeeAnne Mendenhall knows this all too well, because she has battled labels her entire life. About family. About faith. About her choices. The debilitating effects of a rare autoimmune disorder, combined with the importance added to these labels, almost pushed her to end her own life. She has since come to appreciate the amazing lessons learned from rebuilding her life back up from rock bottom, free from the burden of labels.
    As a Certified Professional Coach, LeeAnne has helped others fight the false labels that imprison them and prevent them from becoming who they were meant to be, that keep them from reaching for their dreams, and that stop them from living the life they deserve.
    Unlabeled Life: How to Shred Your Labels and Reveal Your True Self! is a journey through LeeAnne’s personal struggles and the wisdom gained through these trials. With insightful questions at the end of each chapter, the lessons within can provide encouragement and understanding to others struggling with the mislabels in their lives.
    Are you ready to live a life of freedom, clarity, and purpose? Let’s get started!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781483586526
    Unlabeled Life: How to Shred Your Labels and Reveal Your True Self!

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      One grey autumn day in 2012, I stepped into the shower and slid down to the floor. I let the hot water pour over me while I wept. I had sunk into a depression so deep that I was seriously thinking of ending my life. The only thing that stopped me was my children. There was no way to end my pain without damaging them for the rest of their lives.

      Earlier that day, my husband had come home for lunch and we had chatted like I wasn’t dying inside. But he must have seen how low I was, and something prompted him to come back just twenty minutes later. When I saw him, I crumbled into hysterics. He picked me up, and laid me on the bed, holding his body close to mine. He whispered comfort that I couldn’t compute. He texted his boss that there was an emergency at home and he stayed with me until I could calm down enough to talk. We agreed I needed help.

      The antidepressants the doctor prescribed took the edge off my depression. They eliminated my suicidal thoughts. Good days outnumbered the bad days more often than not. But something was still missing. Once upon a time, I had been a romantic who would get swept up in passionate moments. I used to write poetry, novels, and songs. I could reach into the depths of my soul and find a feeling so big that I had to express it in the written word. When I danced, joy and passion became tangible. Moving in tandem with the music, I cherished the connection I felt with the audience.

      One summer day in 2013, I wrote in my journal:

      "I no longer have my spark. I have lost it in the last ten years. Slowly living life and being exposed to the realities and consequences of my life choices, I extinguished my spark. I chose to let it die. The difficulties of marriage has extinguished my youthful ideals of love and romance. Prayers gone unanswered has hurt my faith. Being a mother has limited my ability to express myself, because I am consumed with the children I have promised to love and nurture. I have let my spark slip away.

      In one month, I turn thirty. My twenties have been eventful, but difficult. No longer will I sit idly by while my spark is smothered. I have the ability to do and be much more than I am currently. I will find my spark. Never again will I lie, fetal, on the shower floor in a hopeless pit, waiting for my soul to be taken up by God. I am the master of my fate. I will ignite my spark and I will document my journey so that I may look back and see the ability I have to change my own life. I begin today. My first task is done: begin to write again. More shall come and my spark will come with it."

      The moment I penned those thoughts was the beginning of a journey to shred my own labels. My transformation didn’t happen overnight. But line upon line, I began to see myself with truer eyes, with more kindness, with grace and acceptance. When I was ready to receive what God was waiting to teach me, the knowledge and experiences came. I didn’t realize He was showing me that it was the labels that were smothering my spark until I was free of them. Once that epiphany arose, I couldn’t hold it in any longer. What I had learned, what I knew to be true, and what I couldn’t allow to stay inside of me.

      Over time, I was led serendipitously to share my journey with others. I gained experience coaching others at various points in their own transformative journeys. I spoke. And I wrote it down. Because I realized that if I selfishly clung to my privacy, and secreted away what I had discovered, I would be changing only my life. But by writing it down and sending my experiences out into the universe, I could possibly save someone else from making the same mistakes I had made. Like rock cairns left by previous travelers along a trail to guide those who follow, it is my hope that this small offering will help, enlighten, and inspire fellow travelers.

      So now I invite you on the same path I’ve been traveling. In the pages that follow, you will discover how to move past the labels that prevent you from living an authentic life. You will learn to break the cycle of negativity that holds you back from a full and happy life. You will even see how a simple habit can replace the fear in your life with hope and enthusiasm.

      The Chinese philosopher Loazi said a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. If you’re ready to explore the infinite possibilities of your life, it’s even easier. Just turn the page.

      If you tell, Midget, your ass is grass!

      A full head shorter than the three ten-year-old girls in front of me, I cringed, making myself look even smaller. I was trapped. The bad girls had been smoking behind the school, and I had chosen that inopportune moment to go to the bathroom and catch them.

      My eyes widened as I watched the girls rapidly throw their cigarettes on the ground and cover them in dirt. Just as quickly, they enclosed me in a

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