Live Like You Give a Damn
25 Bold Moves to Get Honest, Face the Hard Stuff, and Show Up for Yourself
Andrea Owen’s Live Like You Give a Damn is a bold, irreverent, and encouraging guide to meeting life’s conundrums and challenges with courage, strength, and a good dose of humor.
The book targets the limiting beliefs that sabotage attempts at personal growth and authenticity. It suggests twenty-five ways to break out of the “comfort zone” trap. Taking a no-holds-barred, full-on charge against the fears, lingering traumas, lack of self-trust, and excuses that forestall efforts to rise to personal greatness, it demands honesty and the courage to show up for oneself every day, even when life gets complicated and messy.
Relatable anecdotes humanize the information-rich text, whose twenty-five chapters can be read in any order. Provocative titles give clues to the type and depth of the inner work that is required in each. For example, “Stop Just Pretending You Want to Change” invites rigorous investigation of hidden fears and resistance, while “You Will Disappoint People” examines the way seeking to please others can sabotage one’s growth and authenticity.
Conversational, direct, and persuasive, the book includes tips for identifying a problem and understanding and admitting the consequences of ignoring it, backed by personal and client experiences and the work of experts in the field. Visualization exercises, prompts for journaling, and questions for reflection are present to guide the imagination in envisioning a brighter, better future. Among the lessons emphasized in the book are the importance of self-trust, the need for healthy, values-based boundaries, and the power of asking questions over making assumptions.
Live Like You Give a Damn is a powerful guide to making bold, transformative changes, living by intention rather than by default.
Reviewed by
Kristine Morris
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