About the Book

Juicy Joy – 7 Simple Steps to Your Glorious, Gutsy Self is a penetrating exploration into your authentic core being. It’s an instruction manual for peeling away layer after layer of the stifling masks you’ve accumulated over your true, glorious essence. When you get savvy to these masks, you can deliberately observe them with curiosity; even with awe and admiration at their strength and cleverness. You can be amused by them. And from that vantage point you will realize that you are their creator and sovereign master . . . and wearing the masks or removing them is entirely your choice.

Developing a compass for Juicy Joy and learning how to follow it guarantees a life that is rich, real, and powerfully satisfying, and launches you into an enduring love affair with your biggest, gutsiest, most authentic self.

Hay House will release Juicy Joy – 7 Simple Steps to Your Glorious Gutsy Self in March 2012, but you don’t have to wait for the book to start experiencing your own delicious flavor of Juicy Joy!

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From Juicy Joy

A garlic-infused breeze kicks up the palm fronds beside the table at my favorite neighborhood bistro. “What do you want?” Sarah asks me. Her kids and my kids–all smart, sweet and beautiful–chase one another around the plaza fountain. Sarah gets up to bring them wishing coins.

What do I want?

I want more.

I want to crash out of this invisible armor I’m trapped in–to tear away the shackles and freefall, delirious and wild. I want uninhibited, unbridled, uncontained passion. I want to plummet naked into a velvet ocean at midnight and roll in the ecstasy of the waves.

I want to peel back my layers and hold my raw wounds up to the sun for healing.

I want to slice through these suffocating wrappings and grab onto core me–whoever that is–and never let her go; make her into the real me, the only me, for some to love and some not to love . . . and I want to not so painfully care who does and who doesn’t.

I want to feel, taste, devour it all–no filters, no censors, no gatekeeper telling me what is rightfully mine to take and what isn’t. I want rapture. I want free, primal, abandon at the top of a mountain under a full moon. I want to absorb me, embrace me, the light and the dark, the glorious and the hideous, and cherish it all and laugh at it all forever.

Sarah’s back. “So what do you want?” she asks.

What do I want? “Caprese salad and a cup of pasta fagioul.”

We close our menus and clink our chiantis as my daughter slides, sweaty and precious, into my lap.

I eventually did tell my friend what I truly wanted–after several years of clawing away at truths I had never before allowed myself to glimpse. Truths that tugged at me like a feverish itch, just under the skin, so close and ever-present, yet so ephemeral, so elusive when I chased them. This is the story of my journey, but it’s more than that. It’s a guide to accessing your own Juicy Joy. A direct, streamlined path you can follow, in case you’re wanting free of your armor, too. Come with me. We’ll start right here and end up on that mountaintop. You in?

Praise from Top Personal Development Masters for Juicy Joy– 7 Simple Steps to Your Glorious, Gutsy Self

“I challenge anyone to read this book and not be powerfully and blissfully changed by it! Lisa is a sparkling example of what she teaches. She excels at the art of being “happy for no reason.” When you read Juicy Joy, you’ll ride the joyful wave to experiencing self-love, authenticity and fulfillment.”

- Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Love for No Reason

"Lisa McCourt has developed a brilliant step-by-step system for relocating yourself as the juicy, delicious, vibrant creature you were born to be. Allow these seven steps to launch you into unprecedented heights of self-adoration."

- Regena Thomashauer, author of Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts

“Throughout our lives we’re faced with challenges to maintaining a positive and joyful outlook on life, and now we finally have a guidebook to turn to. Lisa McCourt has produced a simple yet profound manual for creating a happy and joyful life no matter what your circumstances. She shares vignettes from her personal struggles that readers can readily identify with and details in clear and straightforward language how you can empower yourself and fill your life with juicy joy. This book can change your life!”

- Dr. Steven Farmer, author of Earth Magic, Earth Magic Oracle Cards, and Animal Spirit Guides

“Lisa McCourt doesn't just write about Juicy Joy—she radiates it in her words as she lovingly leads us on a journey to create a satisfying life, full of joy and love. Lisa gently identifies the blocks that keep us from finding our Juicy Joy and shows us that by taking the small actionable steps she lays out, we can change our path. Lisa McCourt's spirit is Juicy Joy!”

- Daylle Deanna Schwartz, author of Nice Girls Can Finish First and How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways

“Lisa McCourt delivers just what the world needs, a great big juicy dose of love and authenticity. In Juicy Joy, you’ll learn the simple, essential steps you need to take to transform your world in the here and now. If you want a life of peace, purpose and breathtaking bliss, then listen to Lisa.”

- Debra Snyder, author of Intuitive Parenting: Listening to the Wisdom of Your Heart

“Juicy Joy is a fun and practical guide, generously sprinkled with brushstrokes of genius. You will never view yourself—or the world—the same way again.”

- Sunny Dawn Johnston, author of Invoking the Archangels—A 9-Step Process to Healing Your Mind, Body and Soul

“Lisa is a bridge builder. Give yourself a treat and walk on across this pleasurable bridge with her! She knows where she's taking you. It's into a new territory where life is clearer, sweeter, more real and much more powerful than the place where our mass culture wants us to be. Lisa has the one set of mandatory credentials needed to write this important book. She lives the juicy life she writes about. You can trust her.”

- Tej Steiner, Founder and Director of Heart Circles, www.heartcircle.com

"I've always wanted to spend time with those people who knew secret things. With Lisa McCourt’s Juicy Joy, you get an opportunity to do just that - plop down, sit up straight, and listen attentively to a woman who knows more than a few secrets for living a life of unbridled passion and radical honesty. If you've ever lifted the curtain of your heart and found that the scenery was falling apart, you'll find Lisa’s Juicy Joy training to be just the psychological, emotional, and spiritual renovation you need. Juicy Joy will lead you to fall deeply in love with your own intrinsically wonderful self. In a world populated with 6 billion people, 6 billion different journeys, and 6 billion doors to enlightenment, Lisa McCourt's Juicy Joy reminds us - with tenderness, love, honesty, and hilarity - that the only real journey is the one within."

- Robert Mack, author of Happiness from the Inside Out: The Art and Science of Fulfillment

"Juicy Joy is bursting with truth, guts, and sage wisdom. What could be more valuable than a manual for igniting your passion for yourself and your own precious life? Lisa McCourt will challenge you, cheer for you, and hug you right from these pages. You’ll be so glad you embarked on the soul-stretching journey to juicy self-adoration with this rising self-dev rock star!"

- Jill Dahne, nationally syndicated columnist, talk-show favorite, and #1 Love Psychic in Top 100 Psychics in America