The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Vironika Tugaleva, 2013
Soulux Press
250 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780992046804
Summary
After a decade-long struggle with addiction, eating disorders, and profound self-hatred, Vironika Tugaleva had to make a choice: change or die.
In choosing to change, she meant to heal herself, and accidentally stumbled upon a deep spiritual truth about why she was suffering in the first place. As a former cynic, she was surprised to find herself having a spiritual awakening.
Drawing from first-hand experience, what has to say in this important and timely book isn't fanciful fluff or indoctrinating dogma. Her approach to spirituality is unconventional, deep, and refreshingly real.
The Love Mindset offers a surprisingly simple look at how we can heal our relationship with ourselves, each other, and life itself.
If you feel like you're too broken to fix, hold out your last shred of hope and give Vironika a try. She won't disappoint you. She will teach you about the power of love, the purpose of life, and the potential of people united. She will show you to yourself.
Author Bio
• Birth—June 1, 1988
• Where—Donestk, Ukraine
• Education— Experience and Recovery, University of Life
• Currently—Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vironika is a people lover, inspirational speaker, reformed cynic, coach, and bestselling author of The Love Mindset. She helps people suffering from mental and emotional distress heal their minds and discover their inner strength.
Vironika is a teacher and lifelong learner of the human mind and the nature of change, healing, and happiness. Her journey into the depths of human nature did not begin in any university, organization, church, or school of thought. Her wisdom flowered out of her recovery from a decade-long struggle with addiction, eating disorders, and profound self-hatred. She healed herself and now she helps heal others. She says, "I just want to be the light I wish I’d had in my times of darkness."
Whether she's speaking on a stage or coaching one-on-one, she uses her youthful energy and down-to-earth wisdom to help people radically transform their relationships with themselves, each other, and life itself. She is a new breed of people-helper who won't call herself an expert or a guru. She'll help you become the expert on yourself.
You’re invited to read more about Vironika and get a free sneak preview of The Love Mindset. Finally, you can follow Vironika on Facebook. (From the author.)
Book Reviews
For anyone who's tired of feeling angry, depressed, or hurt, this book is a beacon of hope! The Love Mindset is a guide to healing yourself, no matter how hopeless and complicated things seem to be!
Christina Rasmussen, author of Second Firsts
As Vironika shared her own story, I saw pieces of myself and pieces of the people I care about. Many times the book brought me to tears and I had to put it down. It was like looking in the mirror and there was a part of me that was used to not looking.
Elephant Journal
If I had two words to describe The Love Mindset, they would be: fresh and powerful. This is because when I read it, something grabbed hold of me like it was the first time I'd seen a book in 5 years!"
Reuben Lowe - Mindful Creation
Vironika Tugaleva's The Love Mindset is an authentic, brave and beautiful guide to a more loving self and a more loving world. A great gift of words for anyone searching for the sacred place of self-acceptance, self-understanding and self-love.
Howard Falco, spiritual teacher and author of I AM: The Power of Discovering Who You Really Are
In the midst of turmoil, this book comes as a breath of fresh air. It shows us how to have a peaceful life filled with long-lasting happiness.
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Discussion Questions
1. How is the "love" described in this book different from how people typically talk about "love"? What other words have you heard used to describe what she is naming as "love" in this book?
2. Have you ever suffered from love deprivation? Are you suffering from it now? What are your typical symptoms of love hunger?
3. Summarize, in your own understanding, the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and actions.
4. Which triggers have you been using to experience love thus far? Which are you still using? In your own words, why is it dangerous to rely on triggers?
5. How has your understanding of your true identity changed from reading this book?
6. Why does Vironika call fear an autoimmune disease?
7. What is the relationship between healing and self-knowledge? How can this relationship help you with your own journey?
8. Are there specific ideas or passages in the book that turned into "Aha!" moments for you? Which ones? What major epiphanies did you have about your life?
9. How applicable are Vironika's journey and teachings to your own life?
10. How will you take Vironika up on her "challenge" in the final chapter? Do you share her dream for humanity?
(Questions issued by the author.)