Book excerpt: This book is about play. It is also about self permission and spiritual as well as emotional evolution. This book is an invitation for you to find your own resourceful nature and power through curiosity and an attitude of play to live life as a work of art and adventurous game. It has bits and pieces of my journey weaved throughout with inspiration and activities for you to design a life you love. Like a sad puppy waiting to be loved, the inner child longs for more expression, and so this was a gift of creation to her previously denied by the inner perfectionist not willing to take the risk of “failure,” which, of course, is an illusion. To move past this insidious pattern, I granted myself the space and permission to do less of what I thought I ‘should’ do and more of what I wanted, thus changing my life for the better. I am no longer the person who sat down to write her first book; a book about the freedom to be fully expressed. May it inspire the same transformation for you.