Rise Above the Story

Your past doesn't define you--you do. It's time to rise above your story and live the authentic life you deserve. Criminal defense attorney and creator of the popular blog Karousing, Karena Kilcoyne knows firsthand what it's like to rise above: Her story took shape in a scrappy steel town in northeastern Ohio. Her mother tried, unsuccessfully, to give her away at birth. Her father was sentenced to a federal penitentiary when she was 12, leaving her to care for her mentally unstable mother and three siblings. As a result, she believed her own limiting story for years: No one wanted me. I will never be good enough. Now, in Rise Above the Story, Karena shares the hard-won tools that allowed her to rise above her own story--and empowers you to do the same, no matter what your own story looks like: Part One: Acknowledge your story. Identify your story and how it's limiting you, and consider who you could be if you left that story behind.

Part Two: Untangle your story. Discover how you got caught up in your story in the first place using Karena's insights and tools that will help unearth repressed fear and trauma.

Part Three: Rise above your story. Learn how to let your story serve you via lessons and wisdom found in the hardships you endured, and discover how the power of loving yourself unconditionally will change your life.

We all fall prey to the limiting voice inside us that tells us to back up, to be afraid, to cover our inner light. But these stories aren't true--and the longer we hold on to these trauma-shaped narratives, the longer we are kept from the authentic lives we were meant to live. Rising above your story is not a linear journey, and it's never a one-and-done endeavor. But by knowing the formula, you will possess a lifelong tool of empowerment that will all but ensure that you find peace and love in yourself first and always.