{"id":7692,"date":"2016-08-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2016-08-01T21:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T02:18:47","slug":"how-to-be-you-by-jeffrey-marsh-book-review-life-on-your-terms-as-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7692","title":{"rendered":"How to Be You, by Jeffrey Marsh (book review) – life on your terms, as YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookStereotypes need not limit you,
\nperfection is a myth<\/a>,
\nlearning to respect and love yourself is priority #1!<\/p>\n

“Growing up fabulous in a small farming town” wasn’t easy for Jeffrey, but they learned to listen closely to the voice inside, become more confident, and stand up publicly as anti-bullying champion, calling on others to do the same. <\/p>\n

Just published on Tuesday (2 August 2016), How to Be You<\/em> is a question-asking, color-outside-the-lines, story-sharing personal journey that can help you “stop trying to be someone else and start living your life” as the subtitle states. <\/p>\n

Be sure to visit the publisher’s website here<\/a> to read an excerpt opening the book and experience Jeffrey’s writing style and backstory.<\/p>\n

What is holding you back from expressing your true self?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0How to Be You \/ Jeffrey Marsh. Tarcher Perigee, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Reject perfectionism and others’ expectations as you learn How to Be You<\/em> in this engaging journey of self-discovery and self-connection.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey embraces gender-neutral pronouns, created the #NoTimeToHateMyself and #DontSayThatsSoGay online conversations, and revels in sharing stories of hero\/ines who transcended race, age, and other stereotypes.<\/p>\n

Discover more about owning your own emotions, letting go of always being in control, and getting used to not knowing everything with this book of stories, writing prompts, fill-in charts and coloring vignettes. Especially useful: reframing the excuses you make to avoid new possibilities as positive qualities in your personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stereotypes need not limit you, perfection is a myth, learning to respect and love yourself is priority #1! “Growing up fabulous in a small farming town” wasn’t easy for Jeffrey, but they learned to listen closely to the voice inside, become more confident, and stand up publicly as anti-bullying champion, calling on others to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,23],"tags":[22,7,4,11,20,5,16,18,43,107,187,49,15,9,21,35,33,3,8],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-nonfiction","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-homosexuality","tag-lgbtq","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}