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Yield to the Shift: Finding Clarity, Courage, and Faith in the Midst of Life's Transitions is an empowering guide for navigating the challenges and opportunities that come with life's inevitable changes. Whether you're at the start of a new journey, stuck in uncertainty, or ready to step into a higher purpose, this book provides the wisdom, tools, and encouragement to move forward with confidence and faith. In this transformative work, you'll discover how to: ¿Recognize when it's time to embrace change and respond to the call with intention. ¿Release the perceived need for control and trust the process of growth. ¿Overcome resistance, fear, and limiting beliefs that hold you back. ¿Build resilience, align with your values, and develop actionable strategies for personal and professional transformation. Through powerful insights, practical exercises, and reflective prompts, Yield to the Shift equips readers to face life's transitions with strength and clarity. Each chapter is designed to guide you through essential steps, from preparing your heart and mind to creating space for what's next, to leading with purpose and maintaining alignment over the long term. This book isn't just about surviving change-it's about thriving in it. By the end of your journey, you'll not only embrace the shifts in your life but use them as stepping stones to your greatest potential. Whether you're pursuing personal growth, spiritual alignment, or professional success, Yield to the Shift offers the clarity and courage to help you move forward, one intentional step at a time.

The Yield to the Shift Workbook is a powerful companion to Yield to the Shift: Finding Clarity, Courage, and Faith in the Midst of Life's Transitions. This interactive guide is designed to help you apply the insights and lessons from the book to your personal journey, providing practical tools and exercises to navigate change with purpose and confidence. Structured for growth and transformation, this workbook includes: ¿ Thought-provoking journaling prompts to uncover your inner wisdom and align with your values. ¿ Actionable exercises to overcome resistance, reframe limiting beliefs, and move forward with clarity. ¿ Step-by-step strategies for creating space in your life, business, and relationships for new opportunities. ¿ Techniques for setting intentional goals and tracking progress as you embrace life's transitions. Each section is thoughtfully crafted to guide you through self-reflection, practical application, and actionable steps, making it an essential tool for anyone looking to turn inspiration into tangible results. Whether you're at the beginning of a new chapter, redefining your direction, or seeking clarity, this workbook provides the structure and support to help you move forward intentionally. The Yield to the Shift Workbook isn't just about learning; it's about doing. It empowers you to dig deep, take action, and embrace change with courage and faith, ensuring that your journey leads to lasting transformation.

Author and minister Valerie Brown dispels the myths about the usage of title in the mondern-day church.

Build Them Up is a practical guide for parents and caregivers that provides strategies to improve parent/child relationships, build self-esteem, and foster self-confidence in children. At the end of each chapter, there are reflection sheets to help you review your patterns and take actions to strengthen your family and school communities.

Find spiritual insight for developing courage and meeting life's broken-open, pulled-apart times for anyone seeking hope. Daily we are asked to move toward bravery, to stretch in the direction of goodness, kindness, forgiveness, patience, and vulnerability. Yet life's tender fragility, fear, anxiety, and our own practiced self-sabotage can derail us from growing and thriving, leaving us fractured and afraid. Ordained Buddhist teacher and Quaker Valerie Brown invites us into the heart of compassion, insight, and courage. Filled with Quaker wisdom, mindfulness meditation practices, and portraits of real people living out simple yet life-affirming bravery, Hope Leans Forward is a guidebook for all of us who are on journeys of self-transformation, self-discovery, and spiritual discernment. Centering small, everyday acts of bravery with diverse stories from marginalized communities, Brown's unique perspective as a Black Buddhist Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition and her extensive leadership experience shepherd us in navigating life's essential questions to discover true aliveness and meaning. When we focus on cultivating clarity and discernment in our purpose, we begin to understand that we are truly connected to--and that we contribute to--a larger whole. Written through a period of profound personal loss and in the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, Brown's spiritual insight and life- and spirit-tested wisdom offers a new source for anyone seeking hope, and seeking to alleviate suffering within ourselves and our communities.

Valerie Brown, who is both a Quaker and a Buddhist, explores the gifts that Buddhism has to offer Friends in our search for unity with the Divine Ground, for clarity in our worship, and for equanimity in our lives.

"This powerful trinity of Black authors invites us into the living room of their hearts, affirming who we are with earthy straight talk, textured diversity, and wise tenderness."—Ruth King Real talk on living joyfully and coming home to ourselves—with reflective self-care practices to help us on our interconnected journeys of liberation Join three friends, three Black women, all teachers in the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, in intimate conversation, touching on the pain and beauty of their families of origin, relationships and loneliness, intimacy and sexuality, politics, popular culture, race, self-care and healing. No subject is out of bounds in this free-flowing, wide-ranging offering of mindful wisdom to nourish our sense of belonging and connection with ancestors. Authors Valerie Brown, Marisela Gomez, MD, and Kaira Jewel Lingo share how the Dharma's timeless teachings support their work for social and racial equity and justice in their work and personal lives. The book offers insights in embodied mindfulness practice to support us in healing white supremacy, internalized racial oppression, and social and cultural conditioning, leading to a firm sense of belonging and abiding joy.

Valerie Brown guides readers toward renewal of mind, heart, and spirit by encouraging them to take time away from the busyness of their lives through retreat. Drawing on her experience as a retreatant and retreat leader, she introduces readers to opportunities for personal restoration within a variety of focused retreats. She wonders how the Quaker experience of expectant waiting influences the retreat process and how retreats influence expectant waiting. She encourages the "big questions" - What has meaning and purpose in my life? What am I avoiding? What brings me most alive? - and offers specific practices for retreatants to cultivate in everyday life.

This collection of children's books by Valerie L. Brown is designed to teach children how to deal with controversial subjects such as molestation and domestic violence. In this book, Jasmin encounters a problem at home and struggles with whether or not to keep it a secret. Lady B. comes to the rescue and helps Jasmin make the right decision.