Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself Pre-Order Promotion

10/9/13: The pre-order promotion is now over. You can learn more about Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself here!

Two years ago I surveyed the Tiny Buddha community to crowdsource wisdom for my second book, which was going to break apart the idea of success.

Around the same time, I experienced a series of life-altering events, including a major surgery, financial hardship, a break-in, and the death of my grandmother.

Within the following months, I dramatically decreased the amount of time I devoted to blogging. After almost three years of regularly sharing my feelings, I wanted space to explore my conflicting emotions without having to put them into words.

Despite having chosen to do this, I felt immense guilt in seemingly “abandoning” the community. I also felt embarrassed and disappointed in myself.

After not only announcing my book but also soliciting insight from others, I realized I wasn’t in the right headspace to work on the project. Even though I knew I’d had a tough few months, this inability to deliver deeply distressed the perfectionist in me.

I planned to work on this later in the year, but when the time came I wanted to work on something different—a book that felt more personally relevant in light of my recent challenges, and extended naturally from the philosophy of this site.

I wanted to create a collaborative book about self-love, for a few reasons.

For one thing, it’s something that many of us struggle with, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to fully love others and life.

Secondly, my former lack of self-love was the foundation of all my greatest struggles. I once thought my life was a mess because I struggled with depression and an eating disorder, and didn’t have purpose, money, or a relationship, but at the heart of all those troubles was my unwavering self-loathing.

Lastly, it tied into an unexpected consequence of making, what seemed like, a massive public mistake: announcing a plan and then not following through reinforced that I need my empathy the most when I feel most resistant to giving it.

It also reminded that sometimes mistakes are opportunities to do something good—and I believe I have with this book.

Including 40 blog posts from tinybuddha.com, Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself offers more than just advice; it offers in a window into our shared human experience, and universal lessons we can all apply to feel happier with ourselves and our lives.

These posts have reminded more than 1.5 million monthly readers that we are never alone, and we don’t have to live life controlled by our inner critic. They touch upon ideas that will help you:

Release shame about your past and the limiting beliefs that keep you stuck
See yourself as beautiful and valuable, with all your flaws and weaknesses
Accept yourself more and judge yourself less
Forgive yourself for your mistakes and stop being hard on yourself
Minimize the need for approval to feel more confident
Let go of the comparisons that keep you feeling inferior
Feel complete so that you no longer look to others to fill a void within yourself
Find the courage to share your authentic self for deeper connections with others
Learn to take care of yourself instead of putting everyone else’s needs first
Believe that you’re valuable so you can start creating a life you love

The stories are categorized into 10 chapters, connected to each of these themes.

At the end of each chapter you’ll find four tips—one from each of the four posts in that section. They’re ideas you can turn to whenever you need help changing your thoughts, and consequently, your feelings and experience of the world.

Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself launches on October 8th. Over the next month, I’m going to run a pre-order promotion that will involve daily self-love interviews with some of the book’s contributors.

During the month of September, anyone who pre-orders the book will receive instant access to the “Self-Love Bonus Pack,” which includes 8 digital resources, valued at more than $150.

Those items include:

From Coping to Thriving: How to Turn Self-Care into a Way of Life, by Hannah Braime
Flowing Through the Void: Creating Miracles Out of Struggles by Activating Presence, Power, and Passion, by Amyra Mah
Complete Confidence eCourse, by Emma Brooke
An Awakened Life: A Journey of Transformation, by Julie Hoyle
Create a Brilliant Vision for Your Life and Business, by Margie Beiswanger
5 Days of Self-Compassion, by Joanna Weston
Be You, Unapologetically by An Bourmanne
Tiny Wisdom: On Self-Love, by Lori Deschene (me)

You can pre-order a copy of Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself here.

Please note that you will not receive your copy of the book in the mail until October. You will, however, will receive instant access to the bonus items once you forward your sales confirmation email to the address listed on the sales page.

Thank you to everyone who’s involved with this book—which is all of you. You make this community what it is. You make a difference, and you’re appreciated.

About Lori Deschene

Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha. She started the site after struggling with depression, bulimia, and toxic shame so she could recycle her former pain into something useful and inspire others do the same. She recently created the Breaking Barriers to Self-Care eCourse to help people honor their needs—so they can feel their best, be their best, and live their best possible life. If you’re ready to start thriving instead of merely surviving, you can learn more and get instant access here.

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