What if your emotions were the key to living a fuller, freer life?
You deserve to live a life where you feel deeply, love boldly, and show up as the person you were always meant to be. This is your permission slip to begin.
Permission Slips for claiming our emotions invites you to pause, breathe, and take a radically different approach to life—one where you claim your emotions as trusted allies instead of obstacles to overcome.
This book is for anyone who's:
- If you’ve ever wondered what it would take to truly feel alive—not just survive—this is your permission slip to do exactly that.
Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or like you’re not living up to your potential?
Perhaps you’re saying things to yourself like:
These thoughts aren’t just yours—they’re part of being human. Most of us have been taught to suppress or ignore our emotions, leaving us feeling stuck, disconnected, and unsure of how to move forward.
Claim your emotions as trusted allies, instead of obstacles to overcome
What if the very emotions you’ve been trying to suppress are the missing pieces to your sense of peace, purpose, and joy?
Your emotions aren’t your enemy—they’re your greatest ally. When you learn to welcome them like an old friend and understand the wisdom they bring, you unlock the clarity, confidence, and potential to live authentically.
With Permission Slips for claiming your emotions, you can:
This isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about learning to embrace your humanity.
Your emotions aren’t your enemy—they’re your greatest ally. When you learn to welcome them like an old friend and understand the wisdom they bring, you unlock the clarity, confidence, and potential to live authentically.
With Permission Slips for claiming your emotions, you can:
- Stop judging your emotions and start seeing them as a source of strength.
- Rewrite the story that says you have to choose between stability and fulfillment.
- Discover the freedom that comes from truly accepting yourself—messiness and all.
- Learn how to navigate life’s uncertainties with courage, grace, and authenticity.
This isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about learning to embrace your humanity.
Why This Book?
Through heartfelt stories, practical tools, and empowering exercises, Permission Slips offers a roadmap to process your emotions, heal old patterns, and step into your full potential. And you don’t have to do it alone.
This book is the start of a growing community sharing their emotional landscapes, exploring compassion and acceptance, and inspiring one another to embrace the beauty and messiness of life.
This book is the start of a growing community sharing their emotional landscapes, exploring compassion and acceptance, and inspiring one another to embrace the beauty and messiness of life.
Join the Movement
Your journey starts here, but it doesn’t end with the book.
- Share Your Own Permission Slips: Inspire others by sharing how you’re learning to embrace your emotions.
- Download the Love Resource Meditation: A free guided meditation to nurture your self-compassion and emotional clarity.
- Download a handy list of emotions: Bring this simple practice of naming your emotions into your daily life.
About The Authors
The Courageous Hearts Collective
We are group of five women on a mission to experience a greater depth and range of emotions, in service of cultivating resilience, response-ability, authenticity and self-authority. We'd be honored to have you join us!
In 2021, we embarked on an emotional resiliency project, meeting weekly to share experiences of our emotions through conversation and writing. This ignited a passion and commitment to share our journeys and insights...
Permission Slips for claiming our emotions is a collaborative work borne from our real-life experiences navigating the challenges of emotional growth. Together, our stories offer a compassionate guide filled with the wisdom we’ve gained through our own journeys.
This book isn’t just advice—it’s lived experience.
To inspire individuals to embrace their emotions as powerful tools for growth and to create a ripple effect of transformation through their lives and communities.
We found that the societal stigma around emotions as weakness, a lack of tools for emotional processing, and the fear of emotional vulnerability is what needs to change.
This book isn’t just advice—it’s lived experience.
Our Vision
To inspire individuals to embrace their emotions as powerful tools for growth and to create a ripple effect of transformation through their lives and communities.
What’s the barrier to that vision?
We found that the societal stigma around emotions as weakness, a lack of tools for emotional processing, and the fear of emotional vulnerability is what needs to change.
What Readers Are Saying
There has been no greater key to my development as a male than the journey to uncover my emotions and the impact they have on my life. This book gave me permission and a road map to navigate that journey.
- Don
I felt so validated reading the words that I have thought inside and never given myself permission to express. I learned why I was sabotaging myself, and how to soothe my aching heart more effectively.
- Holly
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- John Smith
Take the First Step
Don’t wait for the perfect moment. The world needs the real you, and Permission Slips is here to help you get there.