Do you desire inspiration?
Do you love reading uplifting, creative books?
Do you have a friend whose joy quotient could use a spark?
Go In Joy! An Alphabetical Adventure Second Edition A relatable Book of Essays, Poems and Questions to Ignite Your Joy is likely a wonderful match!
Within each alphabetical chapter, you’ll discover essays and poems that reveal snippets of my journey from compacted and fearful into the peaceful, joyful light I shine today. You’ll also find questions to answer within or on paper, allowing you to learn more about yourself.
This wonderful collection of delicious, bite-sized essays are ideal readings to reflect on as you start or end your day… Chelsea Wakefield, author of Negotiating the Inner Peace Treaty
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2020
Do you and your friend like to understand yourselves and your ways in the world?
Go In Joy! Venture to Your Center – Journaling Prompts to Enliven Your Joy offers a wondrous menu of questions and plenty of room to journal!
Working on another word. Boy do I love this journal. Could take a day off just to write…Sierra LaManna, Medical Intuitive
I finally had time this weekend to read through the prompts and spend some time responding to the first ones. I love the thoughtfulness of your questions, and the feeling of self-care that arises as I consider them and write. I have never liked keeping more than one journal at once; I like to integrate “responsive” writing (aka writing to prompts) into my daily journal, but at least for now I am writing on the pages of Go in Joy. I may change my mind later and simply do the writing in my main journal, but either way your prompts cover a lot of territory that would otherwise have gone unexplored. I love feeling so encouraged; I love feeling cherished first by the voice of the book (dear one) and then by my own voice on the page…Jenny Clark, Journaling Class Facilitator
Would you, your child or your inner child enjoy miles of smiles while reading Designed to SHINE! Read Aloud Rhymes for Any Size Heart?
This book is a treasure, a gentle teacher and a guide all at once, fully illustrated in a delightful style that lights your spirit. Many find this book to be a future classic. While I don’t know about that, of course, I feel that its universal messages of love, caring and kindness is meant to travel far and wide.
In 2019, Designed to SHINE! won THREE AWARDS!!!! First, it was named a Certified Great Read by Reading with Your Kids. Next it won a first place award from Purple Dragonfly Books and a Bronze Living Now Award from Books for Better Living.
Here are the first two reviews this book received:
Designed To Shine! by Joy Resor, is a Master Peace. It is appropriate for children, adults or for the child in everyone. Joy uses her rhyming skills to present us with a new way of looking at and responding to life. It is both profound and easy to read. I found it a welcoming book. Joy’s wisdom and magic are deeply felt. There is a uniqueness to this book that makes it fun to experience. The illustrations are colorful and exciting and connect smoothly with the poetry.
Designed To Shine! sparkles, dazzles and nurtures the spirit. It gently flows from page to page. It encourages us to be aware of our choices and empowers us to make new ones when they are called for. It sang to me in a refreshing way. I recommend it for “children of all ages.”…Dr. Stephen Corwin
Delightful, this is a children’s classic in the making, insightful and fun…Every Rhyme will uplift and enchant. There is nothing like that moment of delight when a verse touches ones heart.. It is such a joy to share, bringing back the pleasure of reading and being read to…Michael B.
A new book through Joy Resor’s heart and hands emerged in 2021…Designed to SHINE! Read Aloud Rhymes for Any Size Heart Volume Two!
This Volume brings 26 new topical rhymes like BELIEVE, CREATE and DREAM with wonderfully colorful and detailed illustrations by Lauren Connell.
Magical and Uplifting!! ***** David Geller
Joy Resor’s wondrous poems and Lauren Connell’s glorious illustrations make Designed to SHINE! Read Aloud Rhymes for Any Size Heart Volume Two a MUST READ!! Enjoy with your friends and family!
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How these books came into being:
When my partner and I consciously part, he says the next day that he’ll move to the lower level of our shared rental instead of me moving out.
Taking with him a bevy of papers and clothes which add chaos to our bedroom, I breathe into clarity, peace and connection with all we cannot see.
In the fall of 2014 one morning before dawn, I’m awakened with the title and structure of the first book, Go In Joy! An Alphabetical Adventure, which invites essay titles from my healing journey to flow onto the page.
I write and write in the journal by my bed.
Moving into my office to alphabetize the essay titles, poems I wrote years earlier tap on my consciousness—add me here, leading some readers to say that these essay-supporting poems are their favorite part of the book.
Ta da!
A structure to begin.
And I do.
With this structure to fulfill an internal call to inspire others by sharing lessons life has taught me, I’m able to write daily for the first time in a long, long time.
I write essay upon essay.
I re-write and rewrite, tweak and print, share and tweak…
Write and edit write and edit.
Synchronicities arrive, adding to this book-birthing ride of love, adventure and joy, allowing this book to emerge.
With humility and gratitude, I become an author!
May Go In Joy! An Alphabetical Adventure travel wide, reaching hearts and souls ready for the brand of inspiration, playfulness and joy that moves through me.
Enjoy the book!
Tell friends!
Seven months later as I dress to lead a journaling class loosely based on Go In Joy! An Alphabetical Adventure, I hear, “How can you reach more people?”
Thank you Spirit!
I’m not sure…a webinar?
Off to class I go.
Just as the two students enrolled settle in, one says, Joy, I don’t think you understand how VALUABLE the questions you ask are…I am growing and changing so much because of this class! You need to put these prompts into a book.
Wow!
I feel her words as my second Divine Assignment…yes…these questions inspiring others can reach more people if they are in a book, and when I lead class, I’ll have a book for participants.
Inspiration leads me onward…through two busy weeks in my life, though any time I am home, all I desire doing is sitting down to allow Go In Joy! Venture to Your Center – Journaling Prompts to Enliven Your Joy to come through.
I am focused, allowing, joyful as these powerful, playful prompts flow through my heart and hands, and my book support team turns out to be highly available with other projects on hold.
From idea to publication…whoosh!
Then…in the winter of 2017, I feel called to my laptop to allow an idea onto the page. On the seventh page, I realize that this is a children’s book in rhyme…how interesting!
And how completely FUN!!
I write and write…again following the alphabetically rhythm I enjoy….then I zip off to South Africa to take my older son on a photo safari and to visit him during his Peace Corps post in Swakopmund, Namibia.
Returning to the states, I continue working on the book of rhymes that inspire…discovering that I’ll need an illustrator.
Artwork arrives from a variety of connections though none feels right.
So I breathe, communing more often with Divinity. I allow space for the just right illustrator to arrive.
And does she ever!
When I meet with a realtor/friend in town, she mentions that her niece is a wondrous artist.
Lo and behold, there is a beautiful fit between Lauren Connell and my book of rhymes, which has become a sweet-moving book into the world that people LOVE – Designed to SHINE! Read Aloud Rhymes for Any Size Heart.
After Go In Joy! An Alphabetical Adventure touched lives for five years, I revised the book, adding essays, poems and questions.
Life had taught me more ways to inspire readers.
Voila! Go in Joy! An Alphabetical Adventure Second Edition A Relatable Book of Essays, Poems and Questions to Ignite Your Joy.
And in 2021, Designed to SHINE! Read Aloud Rhymes for Any Size Heart Volume Two was published.
Artist Lauren Connell and I created a second book of wise, delightful rhymes with Lauren’s gorgeous watercolor illustrations.
I’m having great fun mailing copies to those who pre-ordered, and soon I’ll be on podcasts.
Then, in our joyful, post-pandemic world, I could travel to your neighborhood.
Send me an invitation to a book event you’ll organize.
What FUN we’ll enjoy!
Thank you.
Do you sometimes feel bogged down with life?
Could you use a reminder that your deepest longing is to heal into the soulful person you are created to be?
Would you like to evolve into a version of yourself filled with peace and joy?
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