LAUREN BLANCHARD ZALEWSKI is the founder of the Facebook group, Attitude of GRATITUDE with Chronic Pain, and the host of the weekly live broadcast, Gratefully Living the Chronic Life!, which streams on both Facebook Live and YouTube. She's also the author of 5-Minute Gratitude Journal for Teen Boys. Visit her at GratitudeAddict.com.
In her user-friendly intention journal, Lauren guides us on a path toward living with greater meaning and purpose. She has taken her love for gratefulness and expanded it to a yearlong guide for discovering greater self-compassion, emotional flexibility, and joy--and we can all benefit from more of these values in our lives. Highly recommended for learning how to open our eyes to those moments in life we often overlook but that matter most. --Bruce F. Singer, author of Black Duck Moments Every Day Lauren's inspiring, thought-provoking, and life-affirming prompts are essential for anyone looking for guidance on how to live with intention and gratitude. You will find yourself growing week after week as this journal helps you discover one of life's most priceless gifts--the courage to be your most authentic self. --Luyi Kathy Zhang, MD, palliative care physician and host of The Purpose Filter Podcast This is a truly inspirational resource that gently invites us to consider the crucial question of how to allow our true self, our higher self, to take us courageously and confidently into our daily life. Here, Lauren Zalewski draws on her deep, practical wisdom to offer us many rich and novel ways to answer this calling. --Dr. Kerry Howells, author of Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? This journal is the perfect tool for anyone looking to elevate their life, find their purpose, and learn to live their life with intention. Creating lasting change takes time, and if the reader follows the book and completes the exercises each week for one year, it will change their lives in ways they cannot even imagine. Life is short and we have one chance to get it right! --Sandee Sgarlata, author, America's Happiness Coach, speaker and podcaster With loving intention and gratitude, Lauren Blanchard Zalewski shares her secrets to help people become thriving and successful despite what they may be dealing with in life. Lauren lays out weekly prompts with a theme for the reader to reflect on their own to enable them to realize ways that they can live a life with intention. With gentle challenges across several domains, Lauren supports readers to journal their thoughts in response and spurs them to become greater versions of themselves with encouragement and positivity. This journal is a great self-help book, but it could easily be used in partnership with counselors, therapists, and mentors to help others on their journey as well. Do yourself a favor and enhance your own life by getting this journal for yourself or a loved one and explore the many ways that you can live an intentional life! ---Lacy Mucklow, MA, ATR-BC, LPAT-S, LCPAT, ATCS, licensed art therapist and NYT best-selling author