In this world of constant chaos and overwhelm, Kristin believes that connecting with your inner peace and calm is the key to being able to thrive in your purpose and shine your light. This can be done through a variety of alignment, integration, and mindset practices shared in this book. The whispers from your heart and soul are so much more clear when you are truly connected with and loving towards the one person you will always be with - yourself. Like having coffee with a friend, Kristin shares her stories and insights on living each day with more awareness, intention, and vision. She also shares her favorite tools to easily implement and integrate these concepts into your daily life. Her goal in writing this book is to help you see that it is from this place of reconnecting with who we truly are and creating the picture of who we want to be that we can design the life that we really want. We can make our own world that much brighter, both today and tomorrow. This is for every woman who is ready to press pause on the hamster-wheel of life and proactively choose more inner peace, joy, and fulfillment. She hopes you become more grounded in loving kindness, centered in harmony, and uplifted by light. It’s all around you and within you. And you are worthy of choosing to step into it. She also included a few poems throughout to celebrate and inspire the creativity that flows from each of us when we open ourselves up to it. You are Designed to Shine and she hopes this book sparks that light within you.

Every child is born with his or her own unique gifts and talents. With the support of the adults in their lives, children can have the opportunity to explore their interests. This story is designed to highlight the importance of being unique and embracing your passions. Travel along as we see how doing the things that come naturally to you can lead to amazing careers that you love. You Were Designed to Shine is a book that will transcend throughout childhood. It can be read to young children and emergent readers and later read by skilled readers on their own. This journey will build self-esteem, introduce professions that may align with passions, all the while building vocabulary. So go ahead, open your mind, develop your talents, and shine!

Open any page of Designed to SHINE! for a rhyme with art for your heart. Topics lead you and your loved ones into fun, laughter and joy. You'll receive ideas to pay attention in new ways, reminders about kindness and more. It's a book, a guide and a teacher for you, your child and your inner child about loving who we are to shine in the world.

Made to Shine is based on Jesus' instructions in Matthew 5:16 to reflect the light of Jesus in all that we do. Focusing on key Scriptures that associate light with the character and person of Christ, the ninety devotions in this uplifting volume are meant to empower women of faith to creatively carry His light wherever they go. They might be working women striving for excellence with intense deadlines, college students standing firm in their faith on a secular campus, or stay-at-home moms, sleepdeprived and living off of tea and toast. Each situation offers numerous opportunities to take Christ's light, not just into their going-to-work/school/church life, but into their everyday, ordinary, sleeping-and-eating, groceryshopping, coffee drinking life . . . and let it shine.

An art workshop in a book! Readers will shine bright and experience the joy of creativity as they work their way through the creative ideas, exercises, and prompts featured in this deluxe book from internationally-acclaimed artist Jessi Raulet (EttaVee). Organized into eight chapters, it features creative opportunities such as journaling, collage, drawing, painting, and writing. Themes include: nurturing the artist within, exploring various art techniques without self-judgment, identifying and expressing an authentic style, harnessing the creative energy of travel/movement, experiencing the powerful effect of color on emotion, developing creative confidence, and sharing the joy of creativity with others. Designed to inspire, it's filled with the author's vibrant art and features gilded pages, ribbon bookmark, and high-quality textured art paper.

Happily-ever-after is never quite what you expect in this hot and gritty romance.

In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet entrances that are designed to ensure they are seen being photographed. Throughout the United States and Jamaica friends pose in front of hand-painted backgrounds of Tupac, flashy cars, or brand-name products popularized in hip-hop culture in countless makeshift roadside photography studios. And visual artists such as Kehinde Wiley remix the aesthetic of Western artists with hip-hop culture in their portraiture. In Shine, Krista Thompson examines these and other photographic practices in the Caribbean and United States, arguing that performing for the camera is more important than the final image itself. For the members of these African diasporic communities, seeking out the camera's light—whether from a cell phone, Polaroid, or video camera—provides a means with which to represent themselves in the public sphere. The resulting images, Thompson argues, become their own forms of memory, modernity, value, and social status that allow for cultural formation within and between African diasporic communities.