Crystal Andrus - Transcendent Beauty: It Begins with a Single Choice...to Be!

Praise for

Transcendent Beauty

Crystal Andrushas written a deeply compelling book
that will open our eyes and help us allmen included
to embrace and honor the magnificence we already possess
a magnificence that is often overlooked and nearly forgotten,
yet nonetheless is just waiting for us to uncover it.
Debbie Ford, the best-selling author of
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers and The Best Year of Your Life

Transcendent Beautyelevates us to embrace the feminine
fullness and strength of mind, body, and spirit, ever reminding us
that true beauty is about loving and respecting the skin youre in.
Its beautifully writtena must-read for all modern women!
Colette Baron-Reid, international intuitive counselor
and author of Remembering the Future

Transcendent Beautygently guides us into the next era
of feminism, giving women everywhere the permission
we all need to feel beautiful, on the inside and out!
Caroline Sutherland, medical intuitive,
and the best-selling author of The Body Knows

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Simply Woman!The 12-Week Body-Mind-Soul
Total Transformation Program

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Copyright 2006 by Crystal Andrus

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Editorial supervision: Jill Kramer Design: Amy Gingery

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Andrus, Crystal.
Transcendent beauty : it begins with a single choice to be! / Crystal Andrus.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-0679-5 (tradepaper)
ISBN-10: 1-4019-0679-6 (tradepaper)
1. Beauty, Personal--Psychological aspects. I. Title.
RA778.A539 2006
646.7042--dc22

2005033543

ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-0679-5
ISBN 10: 1-4019-0679-6

09 08 07 06 4 3 2 1
1st printing, March 2006

Printed in the United States of America

I dedicate this book to my beautiful mother, Donna Andrus.
And the eagle with the broken wing was no more
Its time to soar!

Contents

The Thread Sewn into the Fabric
of You

Become the
I Am

The Eagles Broken Wing

by Donna Andrus

She sat alone, lame, in stillness and silence
Looking out at a world filled with foggy images.
She saw broken rivers and burned bridges,
Pastel shadowed rainbows and sunsets,
Hazy roses opening and closing, without acknowledgment.
So many gray, hollow, disappointments!
She felt very sad.
Yet she sat proud and strong,
On the highest peak
At the crest of happiness.
And the clouds and moon caressed her.
And the stars twinkled promise!
She could not remember how she got here, But she knew she was home.
So she heaved gratitude and curled up reclusive
And hid her head beneath her broken wing.
She could not fly!
Not until she healed!
Would she ever?
She thought about the mountains she had soared over
The tribulations she had endured.
The dark storms she had traveled through,
Inside clouds packed with failure.
But still she had plundered on to protect her family
In order to survive.
But oh my, how the fox had tricked her!
And now her feathers were tattered and battered,
And she was broken and alone!
No matter how hard she wished or how hard she tried,
She could not fly yet she was an eagle strong!
What terrible shame she felt.
So she hid her head beneath her broken wing
And finally she fell asleep!
When she awoke the sun was rising.
She fluttered herself, sighing wearily,
Remembering she was the eagle mother.
Looking over the horizon, she saw her son,
Soaring amongst a pink and purple sky.
And her daughters collecting food,