Silver Linings: The Essential Guide to Building Courage, Self-Respect and Wellness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781504359191)

Leaha Mattinson is a change management specialist, life coach, speaker, and author who walks her talk in a truly extraordinary way. In 2008 she learned she would someday inherit Huntingtons disease, a genetic, neurological, terminal illness that affects the brain and progressively shuts down the mind and body. It was a devastating diagnosisyet Leaha realized that to be true to the message she shares with clients, she must live her life consciously with enthusiasm, grace, and gratitude. She developed her own wellness protocol to halt the onset of the disease by focusing on nutrition, exercise, restorative sleep, mindfulness, and a pervasive sense of reverence for life. But the most crucial attribute of Leahas success is her mindset: She embraces passion, happiness, and possibility, and turns all negativity into positive life experiences. She attributes her work ethic and values to the example set by her beloved parents and a childhood growing up on a farm where she was immersed in the rhythms of nature. Her mission is to share these valuable insights with others. As a life and executive coach, she guides her clients toward self-improvement by helping them learn how to think, resolve underlying fears, interrupt bad habits, and break through barriers in order to achieve their goals. She is also a speaker, addressing topics such as stress management, finding courage, discovering purpose, living in uncertainty, and facing terminal illness. Leaha is a radio personality, hosting the show Master Your Life on Internet radio, which reaches a global audience. It is aimed at people who are passionate about wellness, personal growth, and self-improvementthose who are eager to bring real change to the way they live and find meaning in a world thats often brutally stressful and disconnected. Silver Linings: The Essential Guide to Building Courage, Self Respect and Wellness is Leahas first book. To learn more about Leaha, visit her website at www.leahamattinson.com.