Mary Shores - Conscious Communications: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life

Praise for Conscious Communications

Conscious Communications is a realistic, practical, and extremely powerful guide for turning your life into a joyful ride no matter how troubled it may be today. I will be keeping it by my bedside and referring to it often. You will want to as well.

Sonia Choquette,New York Times best-selling author of Your 3 Best Super Powers

Conscious Communications positively changes your association to the words you use for yourself and others.

Mike Dooley,New York Times best-selling author of From Deep Space with Love

Anyone who feels the itch to dig in and completely transform their own lives and create a glorious new reality will benefit powerfully from Mary Shoress new book, Conscious Communications. Mary provides acres of support and insight as she teaches us to journal our way to living powerfully and changing our destiny. Mary went from an unthinkable tragedy to a victorious and glorious life, and teaches us all to do the same.

Regena Thomashauer,New York Times best-selling author of Pussy

Mary Shores shares the treasure chest of transformative tools and lessons she learned along her own healing journey out of the darkness and into the light. Conscious Communications is a compelling compendium of stories, processes, and exercises creating a compass that leads right to the heart of what you can do to activate your greatest potential.

Nancy Levin, author of Worthy

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Copyright 2017 by Mary Shores

Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Published and distributed in the Republic of South Africa by: Hay House SA (Pty), Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.za Distributed in Canada by: Raincoast Books: www.raincoast.com Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Cover design: Karla Baker Interior design: Nick C. Welch

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

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, physical, and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

To protect the privacy of others, certain names and details have been changed.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-5213-6

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
1st edition, August 2017

Printed in the United States of America

This is for my two sons, my friends, and dedicated team who have always given me unconditional love and support.

CONTENTS

WHERE IT STARTED

Whatever made you pick up this bookwhether it was the cover, a friends advice, having nothing to read at the airportthere was a reason. Maybe youre finding it difficult to get up in the morning lately. Maybe you have goals but you dont know how to create a life that is in alignment with those goals. Perhaps you feelyou knowthat you have a bigger purpose in life but you dont know what it is. Or you might just be trying to figure out why you cant seem to feel optimistic anymore. Whatever the reason was, youre here now. Youre ready to take steps to change all that.

Ive been where you are, and I have gathered tools, advice, and exercises that have not only pushed me through my darkest days but have also propelled me forward so that I am living a life that is better than I ever dreamed it could be. Let me help you understand the thoughts, words, and actions that are holding you back and bring those thoughts, words, and actions into alignment with your dreams. Ill share with you my own experiences, some background on the way the brain works, and small, actionable steps that will help you move forward with such ease that you wont even realize how quickly your life is improving.

This is not a book full of empty promises. Im not going to tell you that youre going to be rich or that you will meet the love of your life after doing the exercises, but I can promise that if you read and complete this book, you will move in the direction you want to be traveling and you will be closer to your dreams than ever before. You may create new dreams along the way, or take steps toward goals you once felt were impossible.

A lot of these exercises will involve journaling. I truly believe the intimacy of writing to yourself is the best way to really examine your own thoughts and actions. Go ahead and pick out a notebooksomething beautiful that inspires you to write. Keep a pen and highlighter handy so that you can make notes and emphasize the sections that you want to remember. This journal is only for you, so please let yourself be honest while engaging in the exercises. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

By reading this book, you are committing to creating a better version of yourself. You have the resolve to take the necessary steps toward creating goals and achieving them. Lets get started!

HI, IM MARY SHORES

So what makes me qualified to write this life-changing self-empowerment book?

After a rough childhood, the devastating death of my first child, the creation of my own successful and unique collection agency, an unexpected and messy divorce, raising an autistic son, and the ups and downs of over 40 years of life, I discovered that I had an immense well of resilience. I had developed tools that could help others empower themselves to create the life they had always imagined. My greatest dream was for Hay House to publish my book, but there was a hitchI kept saying to myself,