Queen Of Your Own Life

Surfing the internet late one night for the phrase “hot feet” and reassurance that she wasn’t dying but was merely a “woman of a certain age,” Kathy Kinney, was shocked to discover site after site with tag lines like “Now that you’re a Crone…” Horrified, she called her friend Cindy Ratzlaff, with the bad news that they were Crones. Not surprisingly Cindy didn’t want to be one either.

This late night incident set these two long-time best friends on hilarious, sometimes tearful but always honest journey of self-discovery. QUEEN OF YOUR OWN LIFE: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide To Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve (Harlequin Nonfiction; April 2010; $18.95 U.S/$21.95 CAN; Hardcover) invites the reader to a “girlfriends only” party with Kathy and Cindy as their hosts, offering a light-hearted guide to proclaiming self-sovereignty with a step-by-step plan that culminates in the ultimate rite of passage: “a kick-ass Crowning Ceremony.”

On the journey to Queenly self-proclamation, Kinney and Ratzlaff say a woman must learn to give herself seven gifts:

Claim your beauty and feel your power with the deceptively simple but powerful tool of “acting as if.”
Clean your mental closet and find your Queen voice by telling the Mongol Horde in your head you don’t accept them and will no longer listen to what they say.
Admire yourself for who you’ve become by creating your own “Windy Mountain Moment” or life-altering experience.
Build deep fulfilling friendships with other women and evaluate the nurturing qualities of your “Ladies in Waiting.”
Establish firm boundaries that will strengthen all of your relationships and learn to ward off the “Huns at the Border.”
Discover the simple trick to finally being happy with a “gratitude maintenance program.”
Proclaim yourself Queen of Your Own Life with a Crowning Ceremony that suits your style.

Drawing on their own life experiences—from childhood to today—Queen Kathy and Queen Cindy offer candid, frequently poignant, and amusing and often embarrassing anecdotes that underscore these gifts. Queen of Your Own Life becomes a transformational journey about self-reliance and friendship.

Queen of Your Own Life has an accompanying website—http://queenofyourownlife.com—where women can learn more about Crowning Ceremonies and print out their own Crowning Ceremony cards, certificates, coats of arms, and more. They lead 4-day intensive Queen of Your Own Life workshops at Miraval Resorts, a world-class destination spa in Tucson, Arizona and have partnered with philosophy on a special Queen of Your Own Life boxed set of bestselling philosophy products.