Books

Masters of Change: Why today’s most successful individuals learn to harness life’s most challenging moments to become who they want to be

This book helps people reinvent themselves after the rug’s pulled out from under them. Any catalytic event—loss of a relationship due to death or divorce, loss of a job or career, a serious change in one’s health or health of a loved one—can cause this kind of forced identity transition. 

Masters of Change expands on the conventional focus of grief and loss, limited to death and dying, moving the conversation to loss of identity. To help reduce despair and disorientation and adapt faster to unanticipated role changes and challenges that come with one’s new life trajectory, it teaches a framework with 8 principles. The framework normalizes one’s experience by putting it in a container with labels and sign posts. Browne’s goal is to help people avoid settling, on a long and often lonely journey, so they transform into radiant, previously unimaginable selves. 

https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Change-Successful-Individuals-Challenging/dp/B0CGGFJN93 

Clothing, Mindset & Value: Achieving freedom to dress with confidence and joy

On Browne’s journey to reinvent herself after losing her social work career to an injury-turned-disability she reconnected with a 25-year-old vision. She met and studied with the woman in the vision and became the couturier she’d pined to become. The book tells of her journey, but more importantly, how individuals can avail themselves to the services of highly skilled home sewers and why it’s a smart choice. 

Julie Browne wrote the book to help people understand the value of personal image and how a handmade, signature wardrobe takes them to a new level. It not only helps readers know what to look for in hiring a couturier, it gives ideas about how to make the working relationship most effective with the least disappointments. 

Bonuses include worksheets and instructions on evaluating your current wardrobe for best styles, purging the 80% of garments not regularly used, and developing a needs list so everything left in your wardrobe becomes more useful. Her hope is to lure you into the delightful thrill of becoming a co-creator and wearing handmade, quality clothing.

https://www.amazon.com/Clothing-Mindset-Value-Achieving-confidence/dp/1537709283/ref=sr_1_1