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Changing Course Gracefully

A Strategic Guide to Building Foundational Self-Trust

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Pub Date Dec 20 2025 | Archive Date Feb 12 2026


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Description

Are you living your life on autopilot?

On paper, everything looks fine. You meet the deadlines, care for the family, and keep the machinery of your life running. But inside, there is a nagging disconnection—a sense that you are a passenger in your own vehicle.

You are suffering from "Remote Control Living": moving through your days guided by a relentless chorus of "shoulds" rather than your own internal signal.

From Award-Winning Author Elaina Kelly Smith comes the strategic guide to getting the controller back.

Changing Course Gracefully is not just another book of abstract theories. It is a practical, "brick-by-brick" toolkit designed to help you rebuild your foundational self-trust.

Drawing on her own journey and the powerful PARQS Framework, Smith provides a navigational compass for modern life:

  • Preferences: How to identify what you actually want (versus what you think you should want).
  • Awareness: Using the "5-Sense Reset" to calm anxiety in under 60 seconds.
  • Right Action: How to make decisions with integrity, even when they are difficult.
  • Questions: Flipping your inner monologue from criticism to curiosity.
  • Self-Acceptance: The art of being on your own side, no matter what.

Whether you are navigating a career change, recovering from caregiver burnout, or simply trying to make it through a family holiday without losing yourself, this book provides the map.

Stop navigating blind. Pick up your compass today.

Are you living your life on autopilot?

On paper, everything looks fine. You meet the deadlines, care for the family, and keep the machinery of your life running. But inside, there is a nagging...


Advance Praise

""Smith is a first-rate teacher, calm, methodical, and warmly encouraging... A clear-eyed collection of life advice for mental change.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Strikes a grounding balance between theory and execution... Smith’s advice is logical and levelheaded... A compact, well-structured guide to intentional, authentic living.” — BookLife (Publishers Weekly)

“A transformative guide... Smith doesn't yell 'change your life now!' She writes in a straightforward and friendly way that makes the concepts manageable.” — Readers’ Favorite

""Smith is a first-rate teacher, calm, methodical, and warmly encouraging... A clear-eyed collection of life advice for mental change.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Strikes a grounding balance between theory and...


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ISBN 9798993672779
PRICE $9.99 (USD)
PAGES 122

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