Design and Live the Life You Love invites you on a treasure hunt to discover personal answers to the questions, "Whose life are you living? Is it one you've adopted from others, or the one that is truly yours?"


This remarkable book weaves the author's story of her own growth with some self-help techniques that have served her and many others well. It will help you, the reader, expand your awareness by understanding how your perception is affected by the physical learning skills you developed in your early years. These include the ability to focus both eyes for reading; to have eyes, hands, and ears cooperate when writing; and to achieve balance and congruence of words, tone, breath, and facial expression. It also shows you how optimize the physical skills that support clarity, decision making and ability to take action.


Enjoy the poems, stories, and activities in this guidebook. Through their application, you can embody the principles presented. You might want to reference this guide periodically, especially when you're at what the author calls a "crossroads moment". Any issues with your family, school, work, or world can be resolved when you address them when balanced and clear.


Design and Live the Life You Love incorporates Brain Gym® activities along with other tools designed to stimulate your brain so you can enhance your perception, notice what is supporting your growth, and shift away from what is not. Together, these elements form a foundation for experiencing balance, heart, and meaning in your life.

Jo Anna Shaw, MBA, Mind-Body Coach, author and poet is a self and people development expert. She facilitates the transformation of conditioned beliefs and habits, so you can live the life you love and fulfill your purpose. In addition to a twenty-year banking career and twenty-plus years in her own training and coaching business, Jo Anna brings a wellspring of compassion and wisdom gained from twenty-five-plus years walking her own path of healing and recovery.

Jo Anna's work has enabled many to transform challenges with self-worth, self-expression, physical movement and academics as well as business, communication and leadership issues.