Proof of life

Proof of life Let go, let love, and stop looking for permission to live your life

Jennifer Pastiloff

Large print - 2025

"This is Pastiloff's account of how she reclaimed her voice and desire by radically changing her life. She did this despite believing that change equaled death ever since her beloved father died when she was eight. (Much to her shock, change did not equal death.) She shows us it is never too late to begin again, or to let go of stories like: I don't deserve this; I don't get to be happy; no one will love me; I'm too old, to name a few. Through this book, you'll quiet your Inner Asshole, participate in the cathartic process of Shame Loss, ignore the Imaginary Time Gods, use creativity as a portal into healing and connection, and become your own permission slip. Complete with takeaways in Jen's signature sty...le, creativity prompts, and poetry, Proof of Life is funny, inspiring, and full of love. This book is a reminder that your birthright is not stress or shame and that you don't have to show proof that you are worthy or deserving. You are your own proof of life."--

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Subjects
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Self-esteem.
Life change events.
Shame.
Self-doubt.
Emotions.
Happiness.
Large type books.
Large print books.
Self-help publications.
Genres
Large print books
Self-help publications
Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
Jennifer Pastiloff (author)
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition
Item Description
Regular print version previously published by: Dutton.
Physical Description
439 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9798891646506
  • Introduction: Do It Before You Run Out of Light
  • Poem: Proof of Life
  • Glossary of Terms in Proof of Life
  • Chapter 1. You Get to Have This
  • Poem: Changing Lanes
  • Chapter 2. You Are Never Lost
  • Poem: Show-Off
  • Chapter 3. The Era of Because I Want to Do It This Way
  • Poem: Kinds of Afraid
  • Chapter 4. Leaving The Land of Fine
  • Poem: Shame
  • Chapter 5. Shame Loss
  • Poem: Altering Time
  • Chapter 6. You Are Right on Time
  • Poem: How to Get Connected
  • Chapter 7. Love Is a Verb
  • Poem: The Coal Town Bus Route from Lewisburg to Philadelphia
  • Chapter 8. The Will to Grow Must
  • Outweigh the Need to Stay Safe
  • Poem: To Be Spoken in a Whisper
  • Chapter 9. Chasing Goats, Finding Compassion, and Ending That Lonely Life of Self-Abandonment
  • Poem: Perspective
  • Chapter 10. Suppose
  • Poem: When We Really Look
  • Chapter 11. Find a Way In
  • Poem: Afterbirth
  • Chapter 12. Keep Bending
  • Poem: It's All Ours
  • Epilogue: Eat the Cake
  • Acknowledgments

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