About The Courage to Shine: Find Your Voice and Discover the Healing Power of Your Words
The Courage to Shine is a powerful and inspirational memoir by Eileen Forrestal, a former anesthesiologist who transforms her life. From a lifetime of ‘putting people to sleep’, Eileen is now in the business of ‘waking people up!’ As a young child Eileen accidentally overdoses on junior aspirin and suffers a subsequent speech impediment which she deals with by remaining silent to hide her voice. 40 years later, she finds herself unfulfilled and dissatisfied, in an outwardly ‘successful’ career but with a failed marriage and a strained relationship with her aging mother, and she wonders as so many of us do, how did this happen to me? Following a ‘verbal’ wake-up call, she leaves her career in medicine and starts a business writing and publishing inspirational and popular Get Up and Go Diaries, now on a mission to heal the world with words, not drugs! In The Courage to Shine Eileen retraces her journey, She shares her story of finding her voice and discovering a powerful communication tool. She acknowledges the courage it takes to tell the truth about one’s own life, and the rewards of healing her mother-daughter relationship, and delights in the freedom to shine as the person she naturally is.
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Author Bio:
Eileen Forrestal is a retired Medical Doctor and Co-founder of Get Up and Go Publications Ltd. Having spent years in the background, both in her medical career (as an Anaesthesiologist) and growing her business, with the release of The Courage To Shine, Eileen is now coming out into the spotlight. She shares a message of the power of words as access to healing personal suffering, through powerful, courageous and authentic self-expression. Determined to hide my own voice for many years, reluctant to speak up for fear of being embarrassed, mocked, or pitied as a ‘stammerer’, the result of an accidental Aspirin overdose necessitating a stomach washout, aged three and a half, I suffered the pain of invisibility. After a long a career where I put others to sleep (the irony is not lost on me!) I am now at work ‘waking people up’ to the potential, responsibility and joy of their own self-expression, trusting the power of words to heal the past and build new relationships, positively impacting our happiness and personal wellbeing.