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“…a voice of encouragement for those who believe success is impossible.”Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. author of Feel the Fear and Do It AnywayIt is famously written and quoted that we are more scared of our power, of our light than our dark, but here is something else: I think that many of us are ashamed of our power.  Because we were not always powerful.  We were all small once, we have all been scared, of something real or unreal, usually both, we have all had to hide or run.This is just one of the origins of fear of success.  This book is written to shed light on:-- The problem – what is fear of success?- The solutions – how do we get through our fear of success to embrace our authenticity?- The origins – what are the causes, the roots of our fear, sometimes we have to address the problem at its source.To enjoy life.Anything is possible. Pearl has travelled around the world to learn from healing masters: a Sikh yogi, a Toltec family, a Bhutanese monk, a Vietnamese nun, an African shaman, a Native American healer, an Indian guru and experts in Borneo, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Hawai’i…She has excelled as a Zumba® Instructor, not just teaching master classes and in schools, but also pioneering Zumba Gold® and chair classes for people suffering from multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.Pearl is also a filmmaker, with a Masters in Film who independently produced Everything To Dance For starring Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole.  Her first feature film Cheating Nature was one of the first digital features to be shot in the world.She also has a BSc (Honours) in Pure Mathematics, but it took studying Buddhism to even begin to understand quantum theory.Pearl is also a living kidney donor, having donated a kidney to her brother in 2002, eight years later she wrote the first book about donation in the UK by a donor.She is the award winning author of 70 books, of which more than 35 are officially best sellers.Previous reviews“Having read your book this morning online, you have given me so much hope and the reason to keep going now.  I cried loads… and then I laughed out loud at some of the expressions you used.  You are an inspiration to me already.”“Just wanted to say a HUGE thank you.  I have just read your book… found it very informative… and funny too - couldn’t help sniggering at some bits!”“She writes with great humour… couldn’t help laughing in parts!  This is an honest and inspiring account of an amazing woman.  Thank you Pearl, you are a true inspiration.”“I am writing to tell you just how fantastic your Zumba classes have been for our children!  After 3 weeks of lessons we are still receiving glowing reports…  The children who usually do not enjoy physical education have been very positive about Zumba because they find it so much fun.”“You give us our va va va voom.”

A powerful and inspiring collection of poems dealing with love and loss from the death of her mother who died of a stroke and a dear friend, of cancer, to ageing and to the book's main focus - caring for a spouse while he succumbs to Parkinson's, a degenerative disease.Joyce Chiu Broadbent has been a psychotherapist for 18 years, counselling and teaching thousands of people as well as becoming a Mindfulness Teacher and Reiki Master, yet in 2016 she had to retire from working with clients because the challenges of her own life were all she could cope with. She dived deeper into writing poetry as a way of handling her own pain and anguish. Words illuminate and heal and she drew strength from them. She came to terms not only with her own mortality and humanity, but also with that of others.Her husband Mike, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, fought back and underwent Deep Brain Stimulation at the end of 2016. Inspired by his courage and by calls from students who needed her help, Joyce has not only returned to counselling and teaching, but also produced this heart connecting book of poetry to help others dealing with love and inevitable loss.Originally planning to publish privately, Joyce was urged by Rachel Kelly (Sunday Times bestselling author of "Black Rainbow - How words healed me - my journey through depression") to give the book a global release and it is now available in both hardback and eBook."Wow, Joyce, these poems are amazing! So poignant and powerful. Huge congratulations. You write straight from the heart in every sense - your own and your heartfelt love for Mike."Rachel Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of "Black Rainbow - How words healed me - my journey through depression"

What divides us?What sets us against each other?What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves?I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul.There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything.I had started in Spain, this Camino de la Luna, though it started long before and will not end until I die, but where next? Would I finally cross the equator to the Southern Hemisphere, to Africa and could I ever heal the new wounds in my relationships, could I find reconciliation, or as they call it in South Africa, Ubuntu? Would I ever find peace... Would I ever put down my rucksack?

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicistThe moment I felt my real feelings, back in a Native American healing in 2016, I discovered what a great liar I was. Lonely, depressed, desperate… the lowest of the low… No matter how my life looked to anyone else the only thing that mattered was being real with myself.But I was still lying, so poetically, so romantically, tricking myself, that my lies grew even more dangerous. Luckily life protected me from myself, from acting on what I thought was real. Instead I got on a plane to Spain and started hiking, each step bringing me closer to the truth, which I would finally understand on the other side of the world.

WARNING – this book contains strong language. Because when you wake up to yourself after forty years “dear me” just isn’t going to cut it. I wrote this to express everything I felt on waking up and as a manual for myself on how it feels to be free (just in case I ever forget).My practice, whatever it is on any given day, is to help people feel alive, to wake them up. The tragic part is that they often wake up for a moment; for one second, for a song, for an hour, for a day or a week, they wake up to themselves and then they disappear again.I don’t want to live like that any more. So this book is for me and it is for you, because I want you to wake up too and stay awake. Maybe you are my beloved, maybe you are my sister, my friend, a stranger who I will never meet, but I want you to wake up. This world is too miraculous for you to miss it.

In June 2016 I decided to sell my house of 22 years and leave my comfort zone. Slowly the Camino de Santiago showed itself and I decided, with no rucksack or hiking experience to start... But that's another story, the one that led to this one.My Camino in Spain taught me to let go of everything I didn't need, to travel light and wash my clothes in the shower, but most importantly it taught me to trust my heart and my feet, to let my journey unfold naturally, instinctively, intuitively.In the words of the theme song from my favourite TV show, "Nobody knows where they might end up" when they follow their heart.Riding high on reaching the true destination of my Camino I raced to the airport to leave a country I had fallen in love with but which I'd had enough of (for the moment). There were two flights out that night; Seattle or Vancouver.Which country would I end up in next?My heart was calling me to Seattle, the Emerald City, the home of my TV family, but it all depended on my cab driver and how fast I could run with a loaded rucksack.

Japan was the beginning of something extraordinary.Much of who I was on that trip has disappeared. Relationships, business, home, beliefs have all gone or changed radically. But Japan was not my trip, this was the escape of a lifetime for a client.I discovered that amazing things don’t just happen when you follow your dreams, they also happen when you help others follow theirs.My guidebooks have always been “an escape in a box” a tour you can follow and do yourself – this one is eight nights in some of the most beautiful places (and hotels) in the world. (It also helps if you eat fish and aren’t scared to get naked in front of others.)

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." So said Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1933 Inaugural Address when he first became US President. It was a year when almost 1 in 3 were unemployed in the US, a year when a Jewish pacifist called Albert Einstein left Germany to work at Princeton, a year when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and opened Dachau, the first concentration camp.The money changers, as Roosevelt called them, had created a Great Depression. "Happiness" he said "lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." Having left Sri Lanka, I was about to explore Malaysia, Borneo, Bangkok and ultimately visit the almost mythical Kingdom of Bhutan, reported to be the Happiest Place on Earth. I was about to confront my own deepest fear.

What is compassion? Something alive perhaps, that can only be understood in practice. So often confused with pity or the self-sacrificing impulse to take on another's burden, to make things better, to fix. It takes strength and delicacy and it doesn't mean giving away your life savings.Self compassion is sometimes the place between pushing through and giving up, the moment we can recognize our true needs, not our desires even if they're for further suffering. Sometimes the moment we find self compassion is the moment we stop and walk away. I had found forgiveness in Switzerland and now I was heading to friends in Rome before taking the leap to South East Asia, to Sri Lanka, to a new understanding of compassion and self compassion.