Pockets of Joy Deciding to Be Happy Choosing to Be Free (Audible Audio Edition) Roxane Battle Beaver Pond Press Books
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If happiness has a hiding place, Roxane Battle may have found it.
As a new mom with a divorce decree and a reporting job on the five o'clock news, she landed on a few thorns among the roses as she learned to raise a child by herself while trying to keep it together in front of the camera. Guided by a strong belief things could, and would, get better, Roxane shed a few tears and found a lot of joy. Pockets of joy are what she calls them - moments where it feels like everything is going to be okay.
With a little bit of humor and lots of grace, Roxane shares the intimate and private details of her very public life. With stories that resonate with authenticity and truth, Roxane opens up to candidly reveal her life as a single mom, showing how she found her way by making decisions in the name of dignity, values, and faith.
In this audiobook version of her book, Roxane is narrating her own story, allowing the listener to experience the authentic emotion and joy of this moving memoir in the author's own voice.
Pockets of Joy Deciding to Be Happy Choosing to Be Free (Audible Audio Edition) Roxane Battle Beaver Pond Press Books
It would be an injustice to reveal the pages that lie inside this great book. You have to read this to get the true experience. I've read many books and not found many that truely help me. The candid life experiences and insight from Roxane reminded me how I can look at my problems, and I should look at life from a positive outlook. The read is enjoyable and thought provoking. So many time we spend top dollar to fix our issues and only to discover so much of what we need in life is inside of us by how we look at life through intentional moments of seeing pockets of joy. Roxane Battle really captures this aspect of her story telling and I would highly recommend this book and its only $15Product details
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Pockets of Joy Deciding to Be Happy Choosing to Be Free (Audible Audio Edition) Roxane Battle Beaver Pond Press Books Reviews
If ever there was a time to find joy in my life it would be right now. With all the violence and hatred going on in the world, my life seems lonely and sad. I have been thinking about all the wrong choices I’ve made in my life and wondered how I could still be here. This book has been a lifeline for me. The author is straightforward and gets right to the heart of the matter. I enjoyed reading about her life as a single parent. It was refreshing to read how she struggled and shared openly how she had to do some soul searching and realize she made right decisions.
As I started reading the second part of the book, I felt like she was describing me. I wore those awfull cat glasses in junior high and was nicknamed “Toothpick.” I hated going to school each day knowing I would be made fun of. I cried at night because I was called stupid and ugly by my parents. What I did was start believing all this and my joy disappeared for a very long time. “I know self-acceptance is tough, but it is also a paver on the path toward happiness. Being our authentic selves, however we get there, leads to joy.” What wonderful words that is to know that I can find joy just by accepting myself. How many of us have felt the pain of dealing with self esteem? It time to let that go and be happy with the way God made us.
Each chapter has such helpful words of wisdom and yes at times I cried but kept pushing on. I remember the chapter about forgiveness very well. I have struggled with that for years. I know it has held me back and kept me angry and depressed. No wonder I don’t have joy in my life. I have let what others have said and done to me squash my joy. I am encouraged by the authors words as I let go of my anger and take a step toward forgiveness. Along the way I forgot to find joy in having three amazing sons and a husband who shows me unconditional love. Thank you for writing a book that reached into the dark places of my life and showed me that there is joy waiting for me. I need to reach out and grab it and remind myself everyday that “joy comes in the morning.”
I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.
Picture it, Sicily 1922 … I so frequently think that as I sit down to write a review of a memoir or biography. It’s not Sicily, it’s the Twin Cities. It’s not 1922 however it is 19-something. A woman with a goal, ambition and a family that finds itself shrinking in ways that the woman never anticipated. No one starts life and a family anticipating divorce. Roxane didn’t either. She still had a goal and ambition to go with her new life as a single mother of an infant son. Like the rest of us, she made hard choices, many times putting her small family before her goals and ambitions. She made hard choices to give up promotions. She made hard choices that made her viewing public (did I forget to mention she was in TV broadcasting?) question her dedication to her chosen field. She gave up so much along the way. However, she gained so much more.
This book comes in two parts. The first part tells the author’s story. Her story of goals and ambition and family and choices and finding joy in all the things along the way. She calls them pockets of joy. I really struggled to wrap my head around the idea of this. Not the joy part, that I totally get. Especially the finding joy in the little things. I just didn’t get the pockets thing. I kept trying to picture it in a myriad of different ways and each time came back wanting. My mind was trying to wrap this huge idea into a tiny little box. Like pockets of a shoe organizer? Like pockets in my jeans? Face it women’s jeans have tiny almost worthless pockets Like the pockets of Grandma’s apron? Like pockets of air? Like a pocketbook? Every time I was whirling into spin-off thought processes which, looking back, was probably more a distraction to keep me from truly finding the joy. I always zoned back in but man, the pockets were killing me. I was trying to view joy as store-able instead of experience-able. Hence, the literal pockets visuals. The rest of it…got it!
The second part of this book is a step in a different direction. The author identified 7 different steps or areas that we can all learn from and work with to help with creating our own joy, no matter how we store or characterize it. She’s put a lot of thought and research and soul into these 7 steps. They aren’t the be all end all but if you are really working on finding more joy out of life and truly choosing to experience it, they are definitely a great starting point. Authenticity, Service and Generosity, Positive Connections, Gratitude, Self-Care, Yielding, and Forgiveness. From a words standpoint they may not seem like much, heck they make not even make sense in relationship to joy with just a word. The difference is, much like joy, each word has deeper roots into deeper ideas that can help a person experience deeper joy.
I struggled at times with this book as I was trying to figure out how the author was storing joy but also that so much of her life I couldn’t relate to with mine. I wrapped myself up in this book because the never ending search for joy (not to be mistaken for happiness mind you) is something that we can all relate too. Joy is all around you, you just have to be willing to feel it.
I was provided a complimentary copy of this book by CelebrateLit. I was not compensated for this review and all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. I was not required to write a positive review.
It was a very honest and heartfelt account of life as a divorced and professional single mom that had to let go and let God direct and heal.
Very insightful! Read and then gave as a gift to my adult daughter.
"Pockets Of Joy" is a poignant wonderful read. The author Roxane Battle will inspire you as she openly shares "her story" on being a working divorce single mom. A role she learns to define between personal and professional priorites. On her journey she describes a time of being in the wilderness- a place mixed with discouragement, disappointments and dismay.....but ultimately the wilderness became a place where God reassured her of his loving kindness and his tender mercy... through "Pockets of Joy".
Rosalind Sampson
It would be an injustice to reveal the pages that lie inside this great book. You have to read this to get the true experience. I've read many books and not found many that truely help me. The candid life experiences and insight from Roxane reminded me how I can look at my problems, and I should look at life from a positive outlook. The read is enjoyable and thought provoking. So many time we spend top dollar to fix our issues and only to discover so much of what we need in life is inside of us by how we look at life through intentional moments of seeing pockets of joy. Roxane Battle really captures this aspect of her story telling and I would highly recommend this book and its only $15
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