June 12, 2019
Unleash Your Rising:
Lead with Intention and Ignite Your Story
by Christine Gail
Aviva Publishing (2019)
ISBN: 978-1-947937-96-3
New Book Teaches Readers How to Ignite Deeper Purpose in Their Lives
Christine Gail’s Unleash Your Rising will have you ready to embrace new purpose and meaning in your life. This book is packed with tools and stories for how to set your intention for what you want and then achieve it. In fact, stories are at the center of this book—namely, your story. Gail teaches readers how to turn their stories around to find the positive in them, to gather strength that will help ignite a fire in them to move forward and achieve the lives they want.
“Unleashing your rising” can mean whatever you want it to mean. It might mean that you will free yourself from a painful past or from feeling stuck in a recurring pattern; it might mean finding more meaning in your life; it might mean igniting your creativity, or embracing your role as a leader, or beginning to transform yourself and your world. Whatever it is you wish to become, Gail provides advice relevant to your journey. Topics covered include leadership, relationships, health, brain empowerment, creativity, abundance, and your story of intention. Most importantly, you have control over how you will bring about your transformation. As Gail tells us, “everything you do, everything you say, and every experience and interaction you have is a creative act, it changes everything. Everyone can be creative using the tools in this book.”
Story is at the center of the book. We all have our stories, stories we retell ourselves over and over, but many of those stories are holding us back. Gail walks us through how to release attachment to our stories, and especially the stories thrust upon us. By no longer defining ourselves by our past, we can be free to imagine and create our own lives. The result, as Gail explains, will be “life not as attached to outcome, expectation, or what you can detect with your five senses. Your creativity and intuition will be driving the ship. You can become an observer of life, surrendering to the flow and making choices based on a knowing. You will feel pulled toward certain people and experiences. You will feel connected with all people, nature, and spirit.”
One of my favorite aspects of Unleash Your Rising is how Gail learned to listen to her still, quiet voice for guidance. She tells stories of how it has guided her again and again, on such topics as where to move, when to go back to school, when to go to Europe, and when to serve youths. She even listened to it when it told her to leave a multi-million-dollar company she had built to go live on a farm in Iowa and build bonds with her husband’s family.
One of the most powerful stories in the book concerns how Gail learned to release the pain of her childhood. Christmas was especially difficult for her, and she’d often lose her voice as an adult at this time of year. Eventually, she decided to take back Christmas for herself and she shares the method she used to reclaim her voice, her power. She concludes, “I believe that in healing something within ourselves, we heal it for the world.”
What many of us don’t realize that Gail makes abundantly clear is that we are all powerful when we intend to use our power—our superpower. She tells us, “The power of heart-focused intention can literally change the composition of our DNA. We have the ability, with practice, either to create havoc or balance in our lives or in the world through our language, heart coherence, and intention. The combination of the three is your superpower.” How to combine the three and use them for our greater good is the purpose of these pages.
If you feel stuck or stagnant, Unleash Your Rising is the perfect book for you. For too long, you have likely been ignoring your inner child, not honoring your creativity, and silencing your inner voice. It’s time now to take the leash off yourself. It’s time to embrace who you can be, and Christine Gail is ready to show you how. I encourage you to read this book, do the work, and get ready for an amazing journey.
For more information about Christine Gail and Unleash Your Rising, visit www.UnleashYourRising.com.
— Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and award-winning author of Narrow Lives and The Best Place.
