Fearless Living is an exceptionally inspiring book. Rhonda Britten has experienced unimaginable tragedy - at 14 she witnessed her father shoot first her mother and then himself. After more than 10 years of guilt-induced self-destructive behaviour and 3 suicide attempts, she made a decision to stop using the tragedy as an "excuse" - no longer would fear be allowed control her life.
Mixing humour, real-life examples and compelling questions Rhonda invites us to examine our relationship with fear. Do we want to be fear junkies? Do we want to continue to complain, make excuses and beat ourselves up? Do we want to be like a hamster exhausting ourselves on a "wheel of fear" and getting nowhere? Or do we want to live fearlessly, take risks and create lives of freedom, integrity and fulfillment?
The book provides powerful, easy-to-follow exercises for breaking free of fear. Rhonda shows us that the belief (excuse) "I don't have the time to change" is an illusion and that we can transform our lives by changing just one thing 5 minutes a day. By choosing to acknowledge even our small steps forward, rather than beating ourselves up and by recording our "gratitudes" life can improve in a very short time.
There is little here that is ground-breakingly original, but it is so well constructed and written with such passion and conviction, that it is hard not to be inspired. The steps are so manageable and practical that I believe that I can find my way out of the maze of fear and embrace the life I am capable of living. I'm sure that this book will prove a turning point in my life.