Bøker av Samantha Ruth

This is YOUR life. Are you living it your way or are you getting distracted by all of the noise?It took me losing my husband for me to reevaluate everything. Myself. My future. My friends. My everything. It took being in such deep pain for me to not only find the answers - but to actually stop and ask myself the questions. Why am I doing this? Am I doing this for me or because others want me to? Do I even know what I want?I became absolutely Ruthless - about healing. About living my life my way. About being my true self - not who anyone else expects me to be.About doing things I enjoy. Being with people I enjoy.About NOT doing things or being with people I don't enjoy.Up until that point - we'll call it Life Before Ruthless -life wasn't about any of these things - not even a little. For the first time in my life, I was taking care of me - without worrying about what my family or friends or colleagues thought and expected. And guess what?I wish I'd done it sooner. I realized that Life Before Ruthless isn't really living. I figured out things that no one ever taught me. The lessons that are more important than anything we can ever learn in books or classrooms. "Life Before Ruthless" is my opportunity to share these lessons with you...Stay tuned for Redefining Ruthless

Women Who Illuminate is a collection of 30 illuminating stories to inspire your soul's journey. In this special edition cover, we dive deeper into the story from co-author Samantha Ruth.About Samantha RuthWhat you think of me is none of my business. I have spent my life in a mental tug-of-war about this. I don't care what you think about my style. Or my personality. But I've always cared what my parents, mentors and teachers think. It took my world shattering for me to realize that I've been distracted by this outside noise my entire life. I had to make the conscious decision to tune it all out. To listen to my voice only. To pick up the pieces and find a way to put them together. And that's when things began to change. I realized that so many of us live life the way we think we're supposed to. The way others expect us to. Confining ourselves to their visions, rather than living our own.

I thought I knew what grief was. After all, I'm a Psychologist who is trained to deal with such traumas. None of that mattered when I lost my husband, best friend and soul mate Jim, on a typical Wednesday. In the blink of an eye. My world exploded in that blink, and I've been picking up the shattered pieces ever since. Grief is lonely. Suffocating. It knocks you to your knees and consumes your entire world. And the journey through it is different for everyone. I learned this the hard way, after many months of trying to grieve the way others expected me to. After months of torturing myself, honestly. Until I literally couldn't stand it anymore. I hurt so much that I stopped listening to everyone except myself. That's when my healing journey began. This is my story of grieving MY WAY. I hope it helps you learn to listen to yourself, to live life YOUR WAY, and to find hope that whatever you're currently facing, you will get through it.