Roaring Playlist of Thoughts
Using Music to Release your Lioness and Chase Away the Butterflies
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Preface: Why did you choose this novel? Was it the picture? The font? The colour scheme? I have a feeling it is so much more than that. It may have been the words ‘self discovery’. Whatever it was, this is your magical adventure. Mine and yours. You and I. We will be singing and dancing as we skip and groove through these pages. Together. As lionesses. Everything happens in life at the exact right time. I never knew this until I started writing this book. This adventure will go through a series of playlists. Musical playlists. Songs I have listened to in my life. Explaining that whatever you are blaring through those headphones, it is there for a reason. It has meaning for you. It makes you, who you are. I will be discussing my experiences. However it will relate to you. Nala. I had my first panic attack at 16 years old and I could never really make sense of it or why it happened. This developed into illnesses over a 6 year period in particular when I first had an experience in my halls at University. Little did I know something I always saw as a ‘mistake’ has been magically transformed into a ‘blessing’ (Rhonda Byrne). It has added a sense of ‘realism’ to this journey of how to feel good about your past, present and future. This magical adventure we will be going on has a series of playlists. Listening and feeling the lyrics of the ‘Lion King’, Ed Sheeran, Little Mix, Ariana Grande, Stevie Wonder, Ella Eyre, Loud Luxury, Chainsmokers and various r’n’b references. With a sprinkle of hip hop. After finishing this novel I have become not only a woman but so much more. I started this journey as an unconfident, trying to be ‘brave’ and ‘happy’ girl. However, I am now writing this as a strong, confident woman bursting with joy. It is not coming from a feminist approach at all. It is purely coming from a girl who was scared to be a woman and the lovely ‘Sunshine girl’ that her family and friends knew and loved has now returned. Honesty and a dash of ‘self love’ joins us in this journey. I want you to get as much from this adventure as I have . The only way for this to happen is to believe and be your kind self. Inspired by novels I have only been able to understand in the past month because of uncertainty of the world’s intentions for me. However I now know who I am and that is why I am ready to tell you, share my experiences to give you the gift I have received. No matter the dark cloud, there’s always sunshine in your heart. ‘Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends’ - Aberjhani. I want this book to stay with you. I want it to give you hope and believe that in the words of Audrey Hepburn ‘Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible!’ That is you Nala. This magical adventure has been given to you at the perfect point in your life as a woman. Any age. As someone young you can shape your future, as someone a bit older you can feel nostalgia for your past and help your feelings towards your past. Or relate it to your life today. You are beautiful. I know I am. I never knew this before I started writing to the gorgeous ‘wonderful world’ Thank you Louis Armstrong! Yes I do now ‘see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.’ Sending you a huge virtual sunshine hug. E. X
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The novel begins the journey of self discovery through honesty, feeling, empathy and uses music as a tool of therapy. Eloisa believes it is who we are tuned into on our music resources that act as support and shape who we are as individuals. She sees music as a form of therapy and a way to freely pick each song purposefully as if it were a thought. She wants the reader to feel good so wants them to pick their songs that ultimately make them feel positive. She uses the idea of the reader as a Lioness where the reader and the author begin the magical adventure together as strong, inspirational and natural. She wants the reader to experience the 21 day journey with her. This is done by the author speaking, feeling, and expressing each moment that happens for her, relating to the reader directly so the lovely young Lioness reader can apply it to her life in the most positive way possible. Every experience is the passed onto the Lioness so she can relate it to the people and experiences in her life. The reader will begin the journey seeking some kind of guidance of self belief and will end the journey at the desired location that is desperately waiting for her at the ‘Arrivals’ lounge with so much more, a feeling of self love. The author wrote this novel in 21 days but actually 6 years of work and experience without even realising. The author’s aim of the adventure is to connect directly with the Lioness so she is able to say ‘no’ if she does not want to do something. It is the author’s intention to help young women to feel strong and brave enough to say no to something if they do not want to do it. She wants young women to be able to be true to themselves through out the journey of self discovery so that they can get the absolute most out of it, for themselves. No one else. Every single book is for that unique, inspiring individual seeking self help.
About the Author
Eloisa is a twenty-seven-year old woman who has had years of mental health related personal experiences. She had her first panic attack when she was 16 years old when she lost her Dear Grandad. This translated into several illnesses aged 21 upwards. Six years of ill health and several hospital admissions led her to full recovery and positivity. This book started the day she connected with her grandad, who she realised was actually always there guiding her. From ill health Eloisa has flipped the once thought of as a ‘negative’ experience into the most positive, uplifting, ‘contagious’ (Virginia Morrell) ‘blessing’ (Rhonda Byrne’) expression of self love that she wants to give to young women searching for self worth and appreciation. She wants to ‘shine a light on anxiety’ (Virginia Morrell). Eloisa wants this for the lioness, the young women of today, because she did not have this when she was young and ultimately led to years of self destruction. Eloisa wants young women to mindfully choose freely how they want to paint their magical picture of life. Through self belief.