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Your Life Shoes is a fun, fascinating, and thoughtful look into the life of Mary McMichael, complete with the lessons she's learned and guidance and exercises to apply those lessons to our own lives. They say you can never understand someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes, but the truth is that we all wear different shoes at different times in our lives. As a shoe lover, Mary has decided to take the metaphor a step further, comparing various life issues with different types of shoes, and then exploring how those situations can make us stronger. Mary begins by using the shoe metaphor in regards to people, stating: "People are like shoes. We wander through our lives just looking around, and people catch our attention. We like the way some look, the way they sound, and the way they present themselves. We explore them a little further in conversation and we become intrigued. We like them and decide to invest in them. We spend more time with them and build relationships with them. As we spend more time with them, we begin to notice their idiosyncrasies, the ones 'that hurt our feet.' We keep them around anyway, because they look good, make us look good, or make us feel good." This discussion sets us up for the many relationships Mary has tried on during her life, including three husbands, but also relationships with children, siblings, parents, and friends. Some of these relationships went well, some were little short of disasters, but all of them were opportunities for learning more about herself. And we can't forget the many relationships she's had with dogs—dogs who have been her greatest comforts at various times. Magic flows throughout the stories—although Mary might call it the Law of Attraction or just faith. Several times she tells us of how incredible and frustrating situations turned themselves around when she decided to change her thoughts or to surrender her power to God. Her dog who was missing for months returned to her life within thirty minutes once she let go and let God take care of the situation. Mary has learned a lot of lessons from her dogs and any dog lover will be able to relate to the affection she feels for them. One of my favorite passages in the book has to do with what dogs are able to teach us: "I have heard it said that dogs live short lives because they are already perfect. They love unconditionally and completely and are loyal to their own fault. Humans, on the other hand, live longer because we need longer to learn to love like that. Our personalities, mistakes, phobias, and fears get in the way of that learning process, so it takes us longer to get it right. For dogs, it just comes naturally and without resolve." Magic also exists when we surrender to accepting that there are things we cannot understand or explain in this life. Mary has more than once experienced the supernatural. I don't want to give away too much, but one of my favorite passages in the book is when she was at her friend's deathbed and she warned her friend, "Hey, when you cross over, don't be fucking with my kitchen cabinet doors, okay? No opening and closing my kitchen cabinet doors." Well, you can guess what happened. What I may have appreciated most in this book, however, is that Mary doesn't shy away from revealing her mistakes. She's made a few we might consider large ones, including marrying the wrong men and having a child when she was young and unwed whom she gave away for adoption. It takes a lot of courage to make such things public in a book, but Mary does so because she knows her experiences made her stronger and she wants her readers to know there is life after mistakes, and in the end, everything will turn out for the best. Her life lessons can help you live your own Badass Life! This is a MUST READ! Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD, Superior Book Productions and award-winning Author of When Teddy Came to Town