Do you want to survive . . . or thrive? Each day gives you the opportunity to consciously make this decision and Spiritual Living Press has the workbook that will help you joyously thrive and freely flourish! The soul craves freedom and joy the freedom of self expression and the joy of being. This is your inheritance and your birthright. Sometimes, though, it takes practice to recapture the joyous freedom of your true self. Explore and discover a unique path to joy and freedom through 365 days of thoughts designed to engage you and help you practice, respond, and explore new ways of moving forward in life. Run through this world with joy. Discover that you are truly free to create heaven on earth. Your joy and freedom bless you, those around you, and the entire world.

One of the greatest things in life is to start the day with the sheer excitement for all the good that Life has in store for you! The Joyous Abundance Journal helps get you on the right track for your next 366 days. Come to know a freedom beyond your wildest dream! There are no greater reasons for claiming abundance than to experience a richer quality of life; to live fulfilled, passionate, and successful; and to give more than you ever thought possible! Abundance is yours for the taking--not just for what you can get, but for what you can do, create, and give from it. Abundance is your birthright! Claim It! Live It Share It!

We all know that it is more pleasurable and fulfilling to go through life happy rather than miserable. In fact, we are designed and intended to live rich, full, blessed and prosperous lives. Taking joy from our inner being, sharing joy through our relationships, and bringing joy into the world through our meaningful contribution is what Spirit is trying to live and express through us, as us, in our everyday, ordinary experiences. Every moment we are invited to choose joy, love, peace, or simply the Presence of Spirit as our ground of being. When we do so, Joyous Living becomes our reality.

As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta--the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south--in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception--and at the heart--of the new south.

What gives you joy? This beautiful journal from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu gives you all the space you need to notice and record what gives you joy. Arranged as a 365-day companion, it prompts you with inspiring quotes from The Book of Joy to help transform their joy practices into an enduring way of life. It is the perfect companion for The Book of Joy's many passionate readers as well as the perfect gift for anyone looking to live a more joyful. Share the joy!

Joy Manifesto is a 90 day custom journal/planner to help you DESIGN and plan your joyous dream life. With tools to help reduce stress and cultivate the art of living. Step by step instructions on HOW to create and manifest what brings you joy. Each day has specific reminders and checklists for you to fill out as well as space to plan out your day.Using this daily planner will not only keep you organized and focused on your specific goals but also help train your brain to focus on being grateful, the joy of giving and using specific techniques to get you focusing on the positive in your life. What you focus on EXPANDS.This is a JOY action planner. Learn how to focus on what matters, increase success and manifest abundance. This organizational success tool has helped busy moms, entrepreneurs and professionals:-Increase productivity-Decrease stress-Cultivate JOY-Stay focused on top GOALS-Simple steps to prioritize-Daily use literally rewires your brain to focus on gratitude and brings abundance-Increase health and FUN-Become laser focused-Helps you set small attainable goals which compound into HUGE life goals!A little SCIENCE behind why I created the Joy Manifesto:We can read personal development books all day every day, go to conferences and seminars to increase your "success & happiness" and spend thousands of dollars but still not see a massive change in our life.WHY?Our conscious mind can intellectually understand what we've read and why it's important but us but we often have a lifetime of subconscious beliefs we are battling. Good or bad...our subconscious dictates our life. If we look around at what surrounds us ...that was created by our deep seeded belief system.If we have a "block" that's rooted in our subconscious holding us back...how do we fix that? One way is through repetition and forming NEW habits that are joy inducing and success building. Our subconscious didn't learn to walk, read or drive a car quickly right? It takes TIME.Cultivating gratitude, meditation, goal setting and achieving, visualization, daily FUN and prioritization is JOY inducing and creating this daily habit and discipline WILL change our subconscious.Do it every day for 90 days and share with us how it's changed your life. I'm a SAP for success stories!!With love,Gretchen

Explores the history of freedom and the battle to uphold the freedom in America.