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The Sugar Jar

Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life

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"With calm and compassionate power, Yasmine is helping us to find our way back home—back to our own selves." —Layla Saad, New York Times bestselling author of Me & White Supremacy

"Yasmine's work is monumental, and I am in much better holistic alignment because of her dedicated and helpful offerings to the world."—Alex Elle, author of After the Rain

A radical approach to setting boundaries and protecting your energy, rich with tools for self-healing.

Imagine a glass jar filled with sugar on a kitchen counter. You are the jar, and the sugar is your energy. If the jar has no lid, people can come in and take as much sugar as they want. Sometimes, they spill that sugar all over. You may try to refill your jar—replenish your energy—through self-care, but because there is no a lid—no protective boundary—you cannot control how much of your vital life force is being drained.

The Sugar Jar metaphor is a powerful teaching tool that wellness advocate and coach Yasmine Cheyenne has successfully used with her clients. Now, in her debut book, she makes it available to everyone. Warm and honest, featuring a beautiful and inviting two-color design, combining stories, exercises, and prompts, The Sugar Jar:

· Lets you see just how much energy you have and how much is being used by others.

· Helps you identify what depletes you, what restores you, and how to recognize destructive patterns.

· Empowers you to free yourself from performing for and serving others, teaching you to set boundaries to help you heal and recharge.

· Frees you from the excess stress and exhaustion that wears you down.

· Allows you to unleash your authentic self, choose joy, and find lasting balance.

A compassionate teacher, Cheyenne offers a unique and much needed perspective. A former member of the Air Force working with victims of domestic violence, she has specifically designed her approach and questions about boundaries, self-care, and self-healing for readers of all backgrounds, and especially readers of color, whose stressors and life challenges have too often been excluded and overlooked. Cheyenne herself has felt unwelcome as a Black woman in predominantly white wellness groups and retreats. Her inclusive message speaks to the needs of BIPOC readers, and accepts them where they are.

The Sugar Jar shows you how to make small adjustments that can lead to big changes in your life.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 31, 2022
      Wellness advocate Cheyenne debuts with an encouraging manual on how to practice self-love. She remarks that while she was working as a victim advocate in the U.S. military and caring for her young daughter, she “felt like sugar that was recklessly taken out of a jar and spilled all over the place” and realized that her distress stemmed from her inability to draw boundaries, which left her metaphorical sugar jar “completely open” for the taking. Drawing on what she learned from that period, she encourages readers to set boundaries and attend to their physical and spiritual needs. Setting boundaries might mean letting go of harmful relationships or setting guidelines for the behaviors one will tolerate from others, but she warns readers to not let boundaries become “barriers” that limit oneself (e.g., “I’m done dating. I won’t ever allow myself to be hurt like that again”). She devotes a chapter to how Black women can perform self-care and criticizes proponents of “manifestation” for underestimating the institutional obstacles that Black women face. Cheyenne’s compassionate tone is so reassuring that readers won’t mind that she doesn’t provide much concrete guidance, instead offering such supportive consolations as “You don’t have to apologize for being who you are.” This tender volume warms the heart.

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  • English

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