10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives [Paperback]

Grace Cornish (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 26, 2001

It’s time to take back your power and make choices that will help you live a fuller, happier, and more productive life!

With her national bestseller, 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women’s Lives, beloved television personality, lecturer, and author Dr. Grace Cornish wrote a self-help classic for black women who want to rid themselves of the baggage that’s dragging them down. Now Dr. Grace shows readers not only how to heal their romantic relationships, but also how to incorporate new, empowering good choices into every aspect of their lives. This inspiring and insightful book outlines ten positive choices that will help black women move onward and upward, including:

* Embracing the skin you’re in
* Accepting “better love,” not “bitter love”
* Turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones
* Taking calculated chances

Full of anecdotes from her clients, friends, and fans, 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women’s Lives is Dr. Grace’s tried-and-true prescription for finding renewed success, happiness, and peace of mind.

She is also a regular on Good Day, New York.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In the follow-up to her successful first book, 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives, Dr. Cornish offers black women the fundamental wisdom and gentle nudges they need to come into their own and achieve a life "balanced among God, health, money, and love." More than just uplifting women, she aims to empower them, showing how to realize the practical benefits of a spiritual life through anecdotes that women have shared in her seminars and in letters seeking advice. "Psychologically free" women, she emphasizes, are those with the ability to make good choices. Cornish's message of self-respect is not only about loving one's own unique beauty (both inside and out), but also about acknowledging bad choices, and then allowing oneself to "let go and move onward and upward." She encourages women to look for "better love" by "set[ting] the tone at the outset of all relationships" and to look for men who will "enrich" their lives, look out for their best interests and who will acceptAand loveAthem for who they are. In another chapter, Cornish debunks the myth that "money is the root of all evil," claiming that, by believing so, many women fail to experience their full financial potential. While some of the economic advice (Don't "spend a dime when you only have a nickel") is common sense and perhaps too basic for more mature women, older readers will derive as much benefit as younger ones from Cornish's six excuses for bad career choices and how to change them. An author who clearly understands her audience, Cornish provides warm, sister-to-sister explanations that are personal yet universal, and will help steer women toward better lives with a firm and loving hand. Agent, Barbara Lowenstein. (Nov.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

“Dr. Grace has done it again—10 Good Choices is off the hook! It takes you on a trip of self-discovery, self-renewal, and self-improvement. This book is for real—go cop one now.” —Queen Latifah

“Reading 10 Good Choices is like having a personal life coach cheering you on with each page. Dr. Grace writes with authority and love, teaching you how to use your own gifts to reach a higher state of fulfillment.” —Sonia Alleyne, editor in chief of Black Elegance and Belle magazines

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (December 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 060980717X
• ISBN-13: 978-0609807170
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.4 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If Only It Were That Simple, August 9, 2005

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A. Scott (Atl, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives (Paperback)

This book was really an insult to my intelligence. Where did she get her PH.D from a Cracker Jack box? Her book is page after page of stereotypical cliches! I CAN NOT believe that made a comment about Tommy Hilfiger appearing on Oprah saying that he didn't want black people wearing his clothes. If that isn't the oldest urban legend. Come on! Was there no fact checking involved in this process? Then she says that black women need to learn to embrace themselves as God made them and then turns around and says if you don't like your hair alter it!

What a waste of money! Hide this book from your impressionable teenage daughters!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, January 1, 2001

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thesavvybamalady "swblkdiamond" (Prichard, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives (Hardcover)

THis book as well as Dr.Grace's first book should be on just about every black woman's(and other women's)shelves. This book now entertains the things we can do to EMPOWER our lives.One of the things she suggested doing is a Beauty Contract with yourself where you define what beautiful means to you, and then write affirmations as to what part of you you feel is beautiful, and repeat it every day. Thereby, making you into a beautiful person. The last chapter on prayer and looking for guidance from the Almighty was very good. I am a bit surprised that no one has written a review of this book. I only hope that this will encourage you to purchase or borrow it from the library. Folks, do this for yourself and make 2001 your year.Peace.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a bomb that just hit the black woman's world, April 5, 2001

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Brenda (Tacoma, Wa USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives (Hardcover)

This book is awesome! It gave me so much courage and inspiration to go for the things I had already been pondering to do with my life. I am a business owner and really needed this book at that time. I have referred it to as many black women as possible. Although, I thought it could be for every woman. I will be ordering this book to give to the women that are employed with my company at REHMA Janitorial Services here in Tacoma, Wa. It enpowered me in the area of feeling beautiful, going for what you want, never let anyone or anything seemed out of reach. Also, it inspired my already spiritual belief that "One Plus God is a Majority". Keep up the excellent work Dr. Cornish. We need lots of this type of work coming our way as black women and women in general. However, few books are written just for us. I appreciate you. I would love to have her do a retreat seminar for us in the upcoming future. I just order the book 10 things that Ruin Black Womens Lives. I just could not put this one down. I read it at 3:00am and early in the morning. Oh! I am so excited. If she ever comes to Washington State I want to meet her personally.