Things do not always happen as planned.  If you have read the About you know that I wanted to be a writer at age 5, yet over 30 years have passed since that time.  Even as I decide what to write, things changed.

The title to this mission, this eventual book, was easy. The quote was heard on the radio and in etched itself on my soul.  The content was then easy to realize, but how to start telling this story long evaded me.

Until I had a conversation with a dear friend.  He wrote a story called Jumping Mouse, and loves to tell Indian stories.  His wisdom was to start with something simpler.  Start from the point I was still struggled with, which was learning to love myself.

Thus 101 Ways to Love Yourself was born.  In his wisdom, he asked that I create a list and fill the book with many blank pages.  His logic was simple, pure and beautiful.  Yet as someone who had come from an emotional blackhole, and knowing others who had been abused, emotionally and physically, I knew a list would be way too simple of a read.

My friends would read the list quickly, easily, say yes, no, maybe on each item, mentally checking them.  Yet they would not take time to absorb each way.   If a way didn’t seem like it would help, they would simply say that’s too complicated, won’t help me or something else rather than look from another point of view.

So the first book in this series of “More Valuable Than Bread“ is about loving yourself.   Next week there will be more story about why loving yourself is so important.

Love,
MJ Schrader

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