Owning Your Destiny - Book Review

Author Duncan McLauren has written a powerful self-help guide, Owning Your Own Destiny. A Woman's Guide to Harnessing the Power Within, from her personal experiences. In her own voice and relating her insights about recovering from devastating trauma, she presents a motivational guide for women to help them improve their lives. She shares her unique challenges and her search for love and happiness so that others will be encouraged to change their lives from negative to positive.

In a disclaimer, McLauren states that her views are for entertainment, not expert instruction. She advises that the reader is responsible for reading the book and applying suggestions for actions in her life. The suggested exercises will aid the reader in reaching her destiny.

The author, a fifty-year-old divorced, single parent, took a life-changing trip to New Orleans during the period of recovery from her trying divorce.  She states that fate led her to a psychic who was able to help her to explore her past and the present and to look at her future. Working with him changed her life as she created a new identity and life. She describes her new self as adventurous, a risk-taker, and an overachiever. She was inspired to write this book as she gained insight into her own growth.

Her book is described as a twenty-five-day action plan. Some of the topics that are covered are creating a gratitude journal and an affirmation listing. She explores the meaning of love and what is happiness. Forms of meditation and creative visualization techniques are presented, as are topics of the power within, what is belief, and an in-depth look at what dreams mean. McLauren experienced psychic interaction with Tarot cards. She explains Tarot, the use of the cards, and how they affected her life.

The twenty-five-day workshop/blueprint presents in detail how to make plans and set goals by using journals and routines. This detailed guide will enable a woman who is determined to make changes in her life be successful with the many helpful strategies.

Find inspiration and empower yourself with Owning Your Own Destiny. A Woman's Guide to Harnessing the Power Within. Discover how to transform your mindset and manifest the life you've always envisioned. McLauren blends anecdotes, memorable quotes, practical exercises, and tough love to guide you toward harnessing a powerful and positive attitude.