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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
What if you said yes to the thing that scares you, for a whole year? ✨
Who it's for
A funny, candid account of deciding to stop hiding and start a new chapter on purpose.
Restless→Motivated
Feelings it meets
What it is
A 2015 memoir by television creator Shonda Rhimes. Busy with three children and three hit shows but quietly ruled by fear, she was told by her sister over Thanksgiving dinner, 'You never say yes to anything.' Rhimes committed to saying yes, for one year, to everything that scared her, from public speaking and media interviews to standing up for herself, and writes about how that year changed her, along with her…
Where to find it
Bookstores and libraries; ebook and audiobook editions available.
Before you start
Heads up: Anxiety and panic before public speaking.
Age: Adult memoir (suggested 14+)
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Death”
