CHOICE: A Strategic Guide for High-Achievers to Stop Autopilot and Navigate Travel with Integrity - Hardcover

Smith, Elaina Kelly

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798996415908

Verlag: Ventures & Bloom Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Praise for the Author: "Smith is a first-rate teacher, calm, methodical, and warmly encouraging." — Kirkus Reviews

STOP LIVING ON AUTOPILOT

When you travel, the stress doesn't disappear—it follows you, fueled by the constant hum of autopilot living and the weight of expectations. You look successful on paper, but on the inside, you're numb. You've spent years being the "fixer" and the "doer" for everyone else, only to realize you've become a passive passenger in your own life.

LEARN HOW TO INTERRUPT THE CYCLE

In CHOICE, strategic guide Elaina Kelly Smith shares the PARQS Method—a flexible, five-element guidance system designed to help high-achievers pause, step out of autopilot behaviors, and reclaim their integrity. This companion guide offers a sophisticated framework for staying present, anchored, and in relationship with yourself, even in the middle of a high-pressure journey.

Through the PARQS Method, you will learn:

• Preferences: Identify what you genuinely want, despite your "shoulds" and others' expectations.
• Awareness: Use sensory grounding tools to stay present, observant, and connected during high-stress transit.
• Right Action: Learn to make a choice that honors your integrity and builds a foundation of self-trust you can stand on.
• Questions: Turn daily delays, detours, or moments of confusion into a space for open-ended curiosity.
• Self-Acceptance: Learn how to validate your raw emotional responses with self-kindness and self-empathy that begin with two words, reducing internal resistance, which then opens you up to your next clear step.

Elaina Kelly Smith's personal odyssey took her from a highly restrictive upbringing to confident solo exploration across all seven continents. This book contains the powerful, practical PARQS framework she developed and continues to use on her own "brick by brick" journey of building self-trust. She shares it to help you move off autopilot and return to who you already are.

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Elaina Kelly Smith is a strategic guide and global explorer whose personal journey took her from a highly restrictive upbringing to confident solo exploration across all seven continents. She developed the practical PARQS framework to help high-achieving individuals step out of autopilot behaviors, reclaim their values, and build a lasting foundation of self-trust.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ventures & Bloom Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798996415908
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
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