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A Purpose-Driven Life of Helping Others

Fear of abusive parents drove me to quit school, forge my birth certificate, and elope. What came next?

A whirl wind of life with all its twists and turns leading to an amazing unbelievable journey that needs to be shared. May my story help you on your life path.

What is the Book About?

The Author’s life had been a whirlwind journey, moving from one learning event to another. Diane, as a young child, experienced fun and happiness. She remembers those feelings of pain and suffering from physical, emotional, and sexual abuse from the past. She remembers her life of beatings, a foster home, quitting school, marriage at age 17, an unfaithful emotionally abusive husband, depression, counseling, divorce and no friends or family to lean on. Diane responded to the 1950’s societal expectations dictated for women.

The enormous pain Diane was living finally led her to self-growth classes/seminars, a return to school, and even on to college, which led to a professional career, new friends, joyful times with her four beautiful daughters, a new wonderful husband and most importantly, self-respect. The whirlwind continued but now Diane was in control of her own happiness and joy. She learned how to be the author of the rest of her life.

In a unique style of writing her book, Diane offers concrete suggestions, based on actual unbelievable life experiences, showing step by step, how life can be transformed from Anguish to Joy.

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I walked up to her knowing I didn’t have much time. I immediately took her hands in mine, looked into her eyes while briefly telling

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If I ask you enough, will you remember? There is buried within you a child that gets forgotten as the years pass. The true playfullness

When asked, what does it all mean, or even the why of it all? I like to reply; “Look to the sky, where does it end? I can’t comprehend it, can you? It’s called life, for me --- A Purpose Driven Life – Of Helping Others!”

We Live, We Die,
We Laugh Love Pray and Cry
What a Mysterious World This Is

Be kind to everyone, happiness will follow.

We are so busy acquiring things of the world that we have forgotten how to live. Change your thinking, change your world.

Yesterday is History,
Tomorrow is a Mystery,
Today is a Gift,
A gift of Learning

We suffer, not because we do not want to understand things, but because we are ignorant. Ignorance means lack of knowledge, just as darkness means lack of light.

Nothing in the world really belongs to us/you.
Snow will melt through our fingers.
Vehicles, homes, clothes, money -- all deteriorates, returns to dust / nature over time,
just as the human body does.
Everything is on loan, even our loved ones.

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This can be a difficult population to work with given their many serious issues and not just anyone can join and connect with these women. It takes a ‘down to earth,’ authentic, and compassionate individual with a hopeful outlook that becomes contagious. Diane is one of those individuals. She agreed to come and share her jour-ney and to nurture the women as they learned about how to be happy and how that happiness is really a spiritual journey. Current research suggests that helping recovering addicts develop and practice spirituality is one of the most critical components of recovery.

“Diane has received wonderful evaluations from her students. Two classes in particular, ‘Happiness Comes from Within’ and ‘Circle of Stones,’ focus on the potential in all of us to deepen spiritual awareness in the every-day moments of our lives. Diane is able to capture the hearts and minds of her students, so they leave with an enriched repertoire of strategies with which to rediscover their divine essence. She enjoys being of service through teaching others with love and sincerity, and those blessed to be in her classes experience uplifted hearts.”

The course materials were thought-provoking and targeted experiences and situations found in ‘everyday life.’ As a consequence, all the participants found personal ways of relating to what was being discussed. Issues of spirituality, growth and experiential learning in life were addressed weekly, as well as a wide range of individual topics like women’s health, nutrition, and other factors that significantly influence how one relates to oneself, others and the world at-large.

As an avid reader, I love all genres; this book fit into so many: spiritual, narrative, adventure, memoir, self-help. Diane shows us how Life’s twists and turns and surprises shape our destiny. To read this story is like stepping into the shoes of an evolving guru!

While reading Diane Pauly’s book, A Purpose-Driven Life of Helping Others: From Joy to Anguish and Back – A Memoir, I found myself wondering how the bright, successful woman I came to know in her middle years had found her way through the experiences that have left others in similar situations persistently depressed and non-functional. And then I glanced again at the cover. The subtitle, ‘from to joy to anguish and back’ and I understood that her tenacity and strength of spirit had traveled with her through it all; her inner guidance had shown her that a better life was hers if she could only find the courage to keep moving forward.

Diane writes passionately and purposefully of her relatable life experiences, from pain to intense joy! A Purpose-Driven Life of Helping Others: From Joy to Anguish and Back – A Memoir is about her journey from victim to survivor to thriver. Pauly is a determined life learner, reframing struggles into opportunities. She transforms her life through self-responsibility and self-empowerment, finding purpose in helping others on their journey to healing, peace and love beyond fear.

Diane was determined to make the best of life, and she did find the man of her dreams after many failed relationships. What rose out of the ashes was a strong spiritual essence, a love to be of service to those suffering and who were less fortunate. This diamond in the rough has shown her readers that everything is possible with God and that there is a plan for each of us, regardless of our present situations. Diane found that hard work, family, and her love for God and nature have brought her into the Highest form of Grace, which is to Love and BE LOVE! Great Read!