Regina Louise - Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love

If youve ever wondered how you can love and show courage even when things are not going your way, wonder no more. Regina Louise has you covered in style and with engrossing storytelling and encouraging words.

Susie Moore, author of Stop Checking Your Likes

You will be completely captivated by this book.

from the foreword by Dr. Margaret Paul, bestselling author of Inner Bonding

Anyone who has read and loved Regina Louises luminous self-revelations in her memoirs will need to have this book. Whether shes talking about power, loyalty, integrity, or of course love, Regina is sharp, witty, clear-eyed but never self-pitying, and frequently hilarious. This is a book that every woman should have. Her words will lift you up!

Jane Ganahl, author of Naked on the Page and cofounder of Litquake festival

There is no one better suited than Regina Louise to show us that we have the power to make our dreams come true. Her personal stories of thriving in the face of trauma, paired with her no-nonsense, practical advice, will motivate you to be inspired by your challenges and to embrace your best self with kindness and kick-ass courage.

Richard Dry, author of Leaving and professor of English and creative writing, Las Positas College

This is the kind of book that changes lives. Regina Louise not only gives us permission to live our best lives, she also offers chapter-by-chapter strategies for granting that permission to ourselves. Regina Louise is sassy, insightful, compassionate, wickedly funny, and a born storyteller. I guarantee: once you start reading this book, you wont be able to stop. Its that f**king brilliant.

Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters and The AfterGrief

Regina Louise has created an owners manual for personal empowerment and self-love. Ever met someone so fierce and fabulous that you wanted to know how to capture that light for yourself? That is how I felt when I heard Regina reading her last book. With Permission Granted she shares pages of strategies to find your own light source. During times like these, what could be more valuable?

Kari Byron, TV personality, producer, and author of Crash Test Girl

Regina Louise reminds us that self-love is the foundation of freeing our minds and souls from the binds that we place on ourselves. Granting yourself permission to love and appreciate who you are can be one of the hardest trials of your life.

Ashley Blank, founder of Adventures in Literature

Wow, wow, wow! Regina Louise is the real deal, a ray of sunshine in the self-help field! She has done the work of emotional mastery. Her audacity to love herself and give you strategies to do the same is genius.

Maureen Healy, author of The Emotionally Healthy Child

Part memoir, part speak up for yourself manifesto, Permission Granted provides a powerful blueprint for how to love yourself, love your voice, and use your one precious life to live your legacy. Regina Louise will help you heal from self-doubt and step into the life you were born to lead.

Alexia Vernon, author of Step into Your Moxie

Regina Louise takes us on a warriors journey and bares all in daring to share the anguish, pain, and ecstasy of her path to self-acceptance and self-love. She invites us to do the same with her handbook of tools to navigate that uncharted wilderness in each of us the interior of our own souls. Her words are an invitation and a challenge to be all that we can be and a celebration of the exultant triumph of manifesting our dreams. Permission Granted is a searing firebrand of a book, and even if you never practice one technique, to spend time here is to feel something unforgettable Reginas love.

Yvonne Chotzen, film producer, corporate trainer, and founder of Chotzen Communications

No matter what, a voice of truth and love will be heard above the din and noise of ordinary life. Thats why Regina Louise stands out as an authentic voice of intention and positive action. She has discovered and given herself permission to live the kick-ass strategies of self-love and courageous possibility. Now, with a desire to empower whoever seeks to know, she generously shares her strategies with us.

Liza Ingrasci and Raz Ingrasci, Hoffman Institute Foundation

In Permission Granted, Regina Louise relates the journey of her lessons learned and puts them right at your fingertips. Youll put this book down inspired, moved, and armed with practical strategies that will allow you to live your life in a fuller way!

Steve Pemberton, author of A Chance in the World and The Lighthouse Effect

Regina Louise is the real deal. She is the wise, irreverent, loving, funny aunt you always wanted. This book has so much wisdom packed into it, but unlike other self-help books, she offers real, accessible tools to make her wisdom your own. This is the permission slip we all need to live with unapologetic boldness.

Laura McKowen, author of We Are the Luckiest

Somebodys Someone

Someone Has Led This Child to Believe

Copyright 2021 by Regina Louise

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The material in this book is intended for education. No expressed or implied guarantee of the effects of using the recommendations can be given or liability taken. The names of some individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Louise, Regina, author.

Title: Permission granted : kick-ass strategies to bootstrap your way to unconditional self-love / Regina Louise; foreword by Margaret Paul.

Description: Novato, California : New World Library, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Real-deal ways to defy expectations and love oneself into a high-performing life, from a fabulous and fierce Black woman, speaker, teacher, and coach-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021007445 (print) | LCCN 2021007446 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608687268 (paperback) | ISBN 9781608687275 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Self-acceptance. | Self-esteem. | Self-actualization (Psychology)

Classification: LCC BF575.S37 L678 2021 (print) | LCC BF575.S37 (ebook) | DDC 158.1--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021007445

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021007446

First printing, June 2021

ISBN 978-1-60868-726-8

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-727-5