TONYA PINKINS
GET OVER YOURSELF!
HOW TO DROP THE DRAMA AND CLAIM THE LIFE YOU DESERVE
by Tonya Pinkins
Tonya Pinkins, the Tony Award-winning star of the critically acclaimed hit Broadway musicals Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam and ABC’s All My Children, saw her fame, fortune, and family vanish before her eyes. She endured physical and sexual abuse, the perils of a schizophrenic mother, and even once contemplated suicide. How Tonya overcame these insurmountable abuses, losses, and challenges informs the uncompromisingly raw lessons to find strength and move forward in GET OVER YOURSELF! How to Drop the Drama and Claim the Life You Deserve (Hyperion; January 2006; $23.95).
GET OVER YOURSELF! transcends the multitude of other books purporting to hold “unprecedented” truths and “groundbreaking” revelations that, trendy at best, soon evaporate under the flimsy smoke and mirrors of well-crafted hype. Pinkins’ work is commanding and proficient in its breadth of topics and life lessons, as well as its quality of sagacious introspection. It stalwartly defies categorization as merely one more self-help, purpose-driven, panacea-style advice book. Pinkins speaks to her contemporary audience with a hard-earned wisdom and panache that calls to mind the spirit and eloquence of the ancient poets and philosophers whose impassioned words about the fulfilled life and a higher consciousness still resonate today.
In GET OVER YOURSELF!, Pinkins flies far above conventional rhetoric to help readers shed the physical, emotional, spiritual, and even financial fictions and albatrosses desperately weighing upon their lives. Through intelligent prose and practical exercises drawn from her experiences and an impressive array of disciplines, Pinkins has crafted what she prefers to call an easy-to-follow manual for living.
Pinkins expertly guides her readers deep within themselves to discover such core lessons as:
* What most people still need to learn about life, namely how to maximize their good attributes and utilize their infinite energy while confronting fear and making success their end result;
* The power in exercising one’s free will and assuming control over the choices one makes;
* The energizing benefits of forgiveness;
* The importance of letting go of the outside world in order to better understand one’s inner self;
* How to eradicate the ego-driven limits of an “I know that!” mentality; and
* The invigorating fortitude embodied in asking yourself one simple question: “What do you want from life?”
GET OVER YOURSELF! confirms the unbridled potency we tap into when we set a personal goal and believe that dream through to its realization. Having walked it herself, Pinkins shows that by following a path along which “we must die to every limitation and untruth the world has placed upon us,” we may truly live and thrive to achieve our aspired and deserved potential.
Tonya Pinkins’ rare and articulate insight into unlocking life’s deepest mysteries and vast bounties has been honed through her work as an actress, artist, author, motivational speaker, and teacher. Pinkins also teaches The Actorpreneur Attitude™, a course for actors on how to remove hidden emotional blocks to success.