Where are you on your priority list? A key question in measuring self-care. Uncover your own customized strategies for moving further up that list as you bring this thought provoking and interactive book to life around your own kitchen table. Connect with friends and get your sense of self back with doable self-care strategies. Author Lorrie Forde invites you to break all the old rules about not writing in books-this one is yours to write in, reflect back on, and share as you choose. Make it work for you!

This is not another thing to add to your 'to-do' list. Let the pages do the work and before you know it, you'll be laughing with friends, reconnecting with your passion, and the envy of your peers as you figure out what 'feeds you' and where your 'weak spots' are. How long will it take till you're using "F" words all the time and your cookie jar is overflowing? Analogies like this cookie jar and using really good "F" words help us to laugh at reality and a little laughter really can make all the difference.

Lorrie Forde is a daughter, a mother, a sister, a grandma, and a friend. She learned the hard way that balance is her secret ingredient in the analogy of a full and healthy 'cookie jar'. During a twenty-five year career in post-secondary education and through her work as a professional Executive and Life Coach, Lorrie has gathered the research and the tools she needed to bring this book to life. "I believe everyone deserves to have a coach and this book was a way for me to make that possible. I invite my readers to have fun with the process and to trust that their answers will come-they always do." Lorrie loves to fill her days with adventure and laughter. She enjoys her work and says, "I work hard but I work to live-I don't live to work." She has many favourite quotes but the one she would like to share on the jacket of this book is by Adlai Stevenson who said, "It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."

Preface Chapter One: The Groundwork Chapter Two: Welcome to My Self-Care Club Chapter Three: Curveballs Can Change a Game Chapter Four: Beating the Bad Chapter Five: Your Turn Chapter Six: What Feeds Me? Chapter Seven: Stop the World; I Want to Get Off! Chapter Eight: Don't Should on Yourself Chapter Nine: Guys Need Self-Care Too Chapter Ten: Fill Up on Life! Chapter Eleven: Three Fingers Chapter Twelve: My Favourite F Words Chapter Thirteen: Ready, Set, Go! Chapter Fourteen: The Law of Action Chapter Fifteen: Core Connection Chapter Sixteen: Begin Before You're Ready Chapter Seventeen: Command and Control Chapter Eighteen: Your Life Is Your Job Chapter Nineteen: Where Are You on Your Priority List? Chapter Twenty: You Can't Make Time, But You Can Take It! Chapter Twenty-One: Follow the Leader Chapter Twenty-Two: Dream Big! Chapter Twenty-Three: Embrace the Fear Chapter Twenty-Four: Rewrite the Rules! Chapter Twenty-Five: Disconnect to Reconnect Chapter Twenty-Six: There Is Nothing New in the World Chapter Twenty-Seven: Suffering Is Optional Chapter Twenty-Eight: Everybody Deserves a Coach! Chapter Twenty-Nine: In the Beginning, There Was Self-Care and It Was Not Selfish!