I wrote a BOOK... and it's about to be published!
I am really proud and excited to share with you all that I wrote a book, titled The art of rewriting your story. I wrote it as a therapist, as well as a person who has been on a healing journey for the last 17 years. In this book I share what I have learnt so far in order to live an aware life and to express ourselves authentically. I suggest ways to change perspective, to read your own story in a whole new light: to become its protagonist and choose its direction - instead of being pushed and pulled by others or by events. In each paragraph there’s a practical exercise to enact a transformational process and start rewriting your story.
My story, for instance, used to be a really sad one, as I have felt unhappy for more than half of my life. I was unable to express my emotions, I was relentlessly clinging to the need of control and I was living in constant fear: fear of what people could say or think of me, fear that people could abandon me, fear not to be liked and so on. The turning point, for me, was realising that I myself am solely responsible for my own narrative. This awareness allowed me to take things in hand and to move toward a deep transformation. I went through each and every step of which I talk in this book. Eventually, my story has changed.
Italian publisher Bookabook loved this project and together we have started a crowdfunding campaign to publish the book: the goal is to get to 200 preorders in 100 days. We have reached 65% of the goal just in the first 10 days! I am really excited for it to have started so amazingly and I am very grateful to all the people who have supported me so far. If you want to see the campaign’s page and read an extract of the book, this is the link . The book is in Italian and I hope that it will soon be translated in English. It is possible to preorder either the paperback copy or the ebook version - both will be available in their final version in September 2023. However if you make a preorder you will able able to download a PDF copy straightaway. Paperback copies cannot be sent to the UK - unfortunately.
Why have I written this book and what is it about?
As a therapist I see roughly 25 clients a week and I get new requests almost every day. I’ve recorded more than 1000 requests in the past few years that I could not fulfil. It gave me a lot of frustration at first, until I realised that I could turn that frustration into a desire to reach as many people as I could with a book.
This book is a healing journey that can help bring awareness to transform your life for the better and it is accessible to everyone. In it you will find practical tools that are here to guide you make little, but significant, changes to your life. It covers many different topics such as dealing with difficult emotions, relationships, anxiety, stressful thinking, judgment, sense of guilt, perfectionism, and many more. You can almost pick and choose to read what resonates with you. With each topic, I offer a guided exercise to help you being more aware and bring positive change to your life. This book will help you own and then transform your story. I’ll give you my personal example: things that have happened to me in my childhood led me to see myself as a victim. For a long time, anything and everything that happened to me, made me feel as if everyone was against me. This narrative led me to think that that was my identity, most of my life I saw myself as a victim. Until I realised that this was just a narrative, one of many that I could choose and create for myself.
This is what my book is about: taking ownership of your story. Which means not being at the mercy of events happening in our life, but rather learning how to react to them in a different way: it’s a shift in perspective that can change your whole life. Is that a journey you are willing to take?
Last but not least, I want to share this piece of music that perfectly reflects my buzz for this project and I hope it will be infectious!
With love,
Francesca