What Goes Up: Overcoming Your Worst to Live Your Best

Are you letting your past rob you of your future?

Vulnerability, insecurity, anger, resentment and depression led Mistie into the arms of cocaine. Held hostage by addiction for ten years, she fell from becoming a surgeon in medical school to sporting black eyes, committing crimes and facing forty years in prison for taking someone's life.

Left BROKEN, DEPRESSED and LOST, she found strength to PULL HERSELF UP by sharing the RAW TRUTH about addiction, domestic abuse, and shame to IMPACT others. In prison, she WROTE herself into a four step healing process strategically titled C.O.P.E. = HOPE, which triggers emotional release of pain, guilt, FORGIVENESS and depression.

Mistie stresses "Don't wait, LOVE yourself TODAY! RETRAIN your brain to see SILVER LININGS instead of dwelling on negativity. Find your GREATNESS buried inside behind the shame, guilt, embarrassment, denial and arrogance and use it to PULL YOURSELF UP." She urges you to ask "who am I here to serve?" Shift your focus to helping someone else and you will discover your anger, resentment and self-doubt will fade away.

Stop looking into the rearview mirror and LET GO of your haunting past so you can BE PRESENT and show up in your FUTURE.

PULL YOURSELF UP!


About the Author
Layne, Mistie: - From beauty pageants to black eyes, Mistie Layne went from becoming a prominent surgeon to facing forty years in prison after her horrific cocaine addiction forced her to rock bottom, when she took the life of another. In prison, she found strength in writing and developed a four step C.O.P.E.= HOPE method which walks you through releasing TOXIC GUILT, SHAME and ANGER. She believes SELF-FORGIVENES and LOVE is the key to true joy and inner peace, NOT depending on others for validation. After her prison release, she HUMBLY rebuilt a career in nuclear medicine and speaks fervently with PASSION to finally SHOUT to the world her "RAW TRUTH" of ugly dark secrets she spent so many years hiding. Her mission statement is simple; "FIND, LOVE and BE yourself. PULL YOURSELF UP!" By sharing her story of redemption, she hopes to educate and inspire a movement to JUDGE less and MENTOR more.