About Make Joy From Sh*t (Prequel): A Counterintuitive Approach to Living Your Best Life:
Turn Sh*t Into Sunshine
Life throws curveballs—often when you least expect them. Cyclones destroy towns, fires devour homes, kindhearted partners face betrayal, and conflicts rage across the globe. In this chaotic world, it’s inevitable: sh*t happens.
But what if you could turn life’s messiest moments into fuel for growth, joy, and resilience?
Bestselling author, award-winning artist, and creativity expert Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych) offers a revolutionary approach to overcoming life’s challenges. Combining practical strategies with her personal journey and professional expertise as a holistic therapist and self-empowerment coach, Cassandra reveals the secrets to:
• Transform setbacks into stepping stones for growth.
• Harness the spiritual superpower of finding joy in the midst of chaos.
• Heal from disappointments, trauma, and heartache with creativity and resilience.
• Reclaim your happiness and peace as an act of rebellion against fear and misery.
This book is your guide to living a joyful, purposeful life—even when everything feels like it’s falling apart.
Perfect for fans of self-help, personal growth, and creative healing, Make Joy From Sht* empowers you to rewrite your story, make peace with the past, and find happiness in the most unexpected places.
Don’t let life’s challenges hold you back. Start creating joy from sh*t today.
Showing up for joy is an act of rebellion—the perfect feel-great act of defiance in a world drunk on fear and misery.
Bestselling author, award-winning artist, holistic therapist, and creativity expert Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych) shares strategies that have worked for her through many of her own life challenges and for her clients in her professional work as a counselor and self-empowerment coach.
Discover the spiritual superpower of making joy from sh*t and learn how to find joy in disappointments, setbacks, and trauma in this empowering book.
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Author Bio:
New Zealander Cassandra Gaisford is a best-selling author, award-winning artist, mentor and intuitive guide. She is a former holistic counsellor and integrative therapist. She’s is known as the Joyful Artist and The Queen of Uplifting Inspiration.
Cassandra is a corporate escapee who now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. She ‘walks the talk’ – having reinvented her working life multiple times in the search for career nirvana and she’s happy to say she’s found it. Equally satisfying to her is that she’s been able to share the knowledge she has gained. Over the years she has helped thousands of people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances find or create work they love, and to enjoy their lives.
Her journey and lessons learned are shared in her books “The Joyful Artist”; “Word by Word: Some Thoughts on Writing, Love, and Life”; and “Mid-life Career Rescue: How to confidently leave a job you hate and start living a life you love before it’s too late.”
Her other non-fiction books include How to Find Your Passion and Purpose; Mind Your Drink: The Surprising Joy of Sobriety: Control Alcohol, Discover Freedom, Find Happiness and Change Your Life; and a range of other self-empowerment titles.
Cassandra also writes romance novels under her pen name Mollie Mathews (www.molliemathews.com) She loves travelling, the arts and anything that is beautiful and uplifting.
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