I recently had the opportunity to read April O’Leary’s book, Ride The Wave: Journey to Peaceful Living. O’Leary is a Certified Master Life Coach, author and speaker, specializing in helping people find their inner peace. Her book is a refreshing insight into finding happiness within yourself. How many of you moms wish that you could learn to be more patient, yell less and just let things go? If this sounds like you, read on.
As I read through the pages, I could relate with many of the women whose stories O’Leary featured. With everything that is going on around us, O’Leary gives us a method to S.T.O.P. the madness and start enjoying our lives more. What I liked most about this book is that the author gives you situations and also possible resolutions for how you can begin your transformation into a person that you like a lot better.
One of the biggest takeaways that I have gotten out of this book is to stop reacting to life by blaming. Sometimes, it is too easy to blame an external source for our unhappiness – be it a job we hate, a person who is on our nerves, or even a location that we think is holding us back. Because, even once the external factors are changed and we get that quick-fix we were hoping for, the internal ones still press on.
I felt that I learned a lot from this book, a lot about myself and quote a bit that is going to allow me to be more paient as a mother and wife. To find out more information, you can visit April O’Leary on her website or order her book from Amazon.
Disclosure: I was provided with this book in order to facilitate my review. All thoughts and opinons are 100% honest and are that of my own. This post also contains affiliate links.
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Sounds like a book I need! I do work hard at not doing the blame game though. Preschoolers learn it well early on, “You get what you get, and you don’t get upset!”
It was very insightful. I felt like she was speaking directly me sometimes.
Thanks Isra for the comment. I share a lot of my struggles to find peace in the book…I got really stuck in a pattern of yelling and frustration when my girls were preschool age and I was home with them, which was really not like me at all, and ultimately how I was able to get out of it. Amanda, thanks for the beautiful review. I am so glad you enjoyed it and could relate with it as well.
I’ve read this book twice now. I agree with Amanda, it’s like the author is speaking directly to me. I also thought it was courageous of O’Leary to be so honest about her path and feelings. I used to pretend those feelings didn’t exist, or that I was just having a bad day. Now I can be consistently at peace in my home and with my children. I’ve passed this book on to 2 friends too.
Thanks for stopping by Carolina. I agree, I think her honesty is what really helped me both recognize and accept my own behavior.