The Book · Paperback · $19.99
Stop saying “I Have To.”
Start living “I GET TO.”
It’s not a practice. It’s hygiene.
Real tools, for real women, in the messy middle. The Mind Body Spirit HYGIENE™ Method — by a woman who built it from her own rebuild.
Meet Temple →ISBN 979-8-9964172-1-6 · 141 pages · ships via Lulu, Amazon & B&N
Built from the studs up
By a woman who lived the rebuild
The A.C.T. NOW Method™
A daily framework, not a quote book
Daily, not someday
It’s not a practice. It’s hygiene.
Inside the book
A book to live with.
A practice to come home to.
The A.C.T. NOW Method™
Awareness · Clarity · Tapped In · No Opportunity Wasted. A four-step pattern you can run anywhere — in the parking lot, at the kitchen sink, in the hard conversation.
Honest language for the messy middle
Divorce. Grief. Estrangement. Health scares. The middle of the night. The parts of the story nobody warned you about — named, validated, and made workable.
Daily Hygiene tools, not a practice
Brush your teeth. Wash your face. Keep your inner world. The whole point: caveman-simple tools you actually use, not a course you abandon by Wednesday.
Pay it forward
Sponsor 100 copies to a women’s shelter.
Every woman who walks into a domestic violence shelter is, by definition, in the messy middle. If this book is the inheritance I had to build from scratch — let’s put it in the hands of women who need it most.
See the 3 sponsor tiersOr a Circle of 10 · or just one. Every copy lands.
“I just finished your book. BLEW ME AWAY! I am so in awe of you. I loved every part of it — it took me some time, but I loved that, because I was able to take in each chapter. I loved the acronyms and breakdown of words, and building new neural pathways to what those words mean for you. I hope the launch of your book was a MASSIVE success, because not only is this a book, but a tool that needs to be studied and applied in many people’s lives.”
— CB
First Reader · Washington State
Your guide
I built this because no elder was in the room.
So I became her.
If you woke up this morning and didn’t recognize the woman in the mirror — I’ve been her.
Adopted at birth. Married 22 years to a life eroding under my feet. Mother to three daughters and the slow, brutal grief of estrangement. Hashimoto’s. A breast cancer scare. A bloodwork report that kept coming back “normal” while my body screamed otherwise.
I was brought down to the studs. No frame. No insulation. Just the bare beams of who I actually was when everything I thought defined me was gone.
I read every book. Sat with every teacher. Trained three years with a renowned meditation master. Studied Mind, Body, Spirit for over twenty years — because no one had given me the language.
And then one ordinary morning, at the kitchen trash can, three words landed in the middle of my chest…
I GET TO.
I get to take out this trash — because I have a home. Because I am alive and able. Because the woman I used to be would have given anything to be standing where I’m standing right now.
That moment cracked open everything that became this work. The Mind Body Spirit HYGIENE™ Method. The A.C.T. NOW pattern. Every tool inside this book.
This is the inheritance I had to build from scratch — and the one I’m still using. I walk the talk. Every morning, every hard conversation, every time the floor falls out again — these tools are what I reach for. Not because I figured anything out. Because I’m two steps ahead, holding the door open behind me.
Whatever brought you to this page — it brought you home.
— Temple
Ready when you are
Come home to yourself.
It’s not a practice. It’s hygiene.
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