Perspective: Harness the Power of Your Mind to Reignite Your Spirit

Wish you could get out of your own way? Ready to finally overcome your fears and inhibitions and grow the can-do mindset you need to be your best? If you’re looking for a mental makeover, this book is for YOU.

Spending time and energy trying to influence the people and things around us feels exhausting. And it’s rarely effective. "Happiness is an inside job" means the way we frame things in our minds can either help or hinder our quality of life. This book is your how-to manual for managing and shifting the key driver of happiness: your PERSPECTIVE.

Being human is hard, with no shortage of opinions on how to live well. We arrive wide-eyed and curious, then do our best to survive bumpy rides into adulthood. Thoughts, emotions, and judgments hijack our vulnerable unfolding, labels cast upon our developing egos. Sooner or later we wake up, only to discover we don’t really know who we are.

What if there were a way to make peace with your evolving self in an ego-driven world—to practice being in a world of doing? In this book, Health Coach Sheryl Melanson stitches together a collection of practices that help you to break through the illusion of control where so many get stuck. Learn to harness your mindset to reclaim the curiosity, adaptability, compassion, and agency that will reignite your spirit.

Sheryl Melanson BA, CHC, NCTTP is a certified health and life coach who inspires people to transform limiting habits into mindful choices that express their values. Her career is shaped by an instinctive curiosity for what propels people toward potential and a sincere delight in partnering with extraordinary people on their path to self-discovery.


Sheryl has coached thousands to embrace healthier living over the past seventeen years. A Boston College alum with a degree in mathematics and philosophy, she has lived and worked in London, Oregon, Kauai, and throughout New England. A graduate of Coach University, Palouse Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Training, and Dr. Rick Hanson's Positive Neuroplasticity Training (PNT), she has pursued her own mindfulness practice for the past twenty-five years. In her free time, she loves to dance, kayak, listen to people's stories, and explore the sights, sounds, and smells of her seaside town.