Own Your Life : Lise Porter : 9780692861851 : 0692861858 : 12 Mar 2017 : For everyone who's ever wanted their life to be different but feels like they're stuck in gear, Own Your Life explores how we can leverage adversity and move from crisis, challenge, or loss to a place of thriving in our lives. There is no easy way out of pain yet we often think something is wrong if we find ourselves revisiting the same old stories with no new ending. We're told that if we just think happy thoughts, all will be well, and then feel like failures when it isn't. How then do we transform our narratives and embrace our strengths and weaknesses? In Own Your Life, Lise Porter, a licensed psychotherapist and survivor of her mother's suicide, passionately asserts that when we fully own the ups and downs of our lives, our personal wounds actually become gifts that serve us and the world at large. Through thirty-five short narratives all dealing with specific themes and tools pertaining to transformation,