Publisher

I am interested in SoundsTrue publishing as an ideal publisher for my book. SoundsTrue

publishes books in the areas of spiritual journey, meditation, psychology, creativity, health and
healing, self-discovery, and relationships. SoundsTrue audiences are consumers who are focused
on personal growth. With this publisher, Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly would be a good fit
because of its genuine desire to help people grow as individuals and reach their highest potential.
SoundsTrue focuses on the healing of self and is a publishing company that is devoted to guiding
people on their journey to wholeness through a structure of teacher and student method. Giving
Your Soul Freedom to Fly is a perfect match because the book will be structured around a teacher
and student aspect. This publisher, through research has produced countless books on the topic of
Forgiveness such as self-forgiveness, the art of forgiveness, and forgiveness challenges, but
has yet to produce a book like Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly. This book would introduce a
fresh perspective on Forgiveness by discussing how to forgive someone when the offender has
not nor will not ask for forgiveness.
Book Title and Subtitle
Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly
Description
Forgiveness strips away the pain of the offense, but it does not take away the memory of
the offense. There is a quote out there that states, If you want to fly, you have to give up the
stuff that weighs you down. Well, that sounds easy, but in actuality it is far from it.
The topic for this book is How to forgive someone when the offender has not nor will
not ask for forgiveness. This topic is not the traditional approach to forgiveness, but rather an
unspoken particle to the aspect of forgiveness. Forgiveness and moving on frees you to live;
letting go propels you to leave the nest of despair and fly out, into your souls freedom, freedom
to liveliberation of the heart. Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly is about learning to love and
forgive after the pain. This book will embark on a journey of being aware of your deepest
emotions that are tied to the offense. In the chapters to come, we will explore the process of
forgiveness, by elaborating on the spiritual side of forgiveness and the worlds view of what
forgiveness is. What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is a decision to free yourself from being tied to
the hurt that the offense causes you. When you decide to forgive, it does not mean you condone
or forget the offense, but it does elicit peace, peace from being tormented. The mission of this
book is to free the soul, so that the mind, body, and spirit will be able to live happily and fully
conscious and aware of life; because when you are engulfed with unforgiveness, pain, bitterness,
and resentment, it makes life hard to enjoy or endure. The purpose of this book will hopefully
propel the reader to fly out of the nest of unforgiveness and fly free, soaring like an eagle. Giving
Your Soul Freedom to Fly will cover addressing what happened(this will require not focusing on
what was done to you, but simply telling the story that led up to the offense), then the discussion
of how it made you feel in a more in depth take. The book will explore various scenarios of
offenses that could possibly be similar to your offenses such as, sexual abuse, physical abuse,
infidelity, murder of a loved one, divorce, and a range of other topics. This book will cover
unmasking the offender. What does unmasking the offender mean? Up until the point where the
person that hurt you offended you, you loved them, probably would do anything for them, or if

the offender is not known to you (such as a rapist that is a stranger) you felt pretty secure, you
felt strong, not intimidated, and certainly not timid, you probably even thought nothing like that
would happen to me. Well, it did, but why? Why did this person violate you? Who were they?
What must have happened in their life that they are the way they are? I want to delve into the
realm of profiling or unmasking (getting to know their true self) the offender, because by doing
that, a much better understanding of their motives will be achieved. There is no way you can
discuss forgiveness without love, so I want to touch on love and what love truly means from a
spiritual perspective, but also a more general perspective (because everyone is not spiritual).
Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly will be organized by the process of forgiveness. This will be
played out by addressing the offense, taking a look at the offender, taking a look into the self,
understanding love and how to effectively manifest love towards the offender. After addressing
the offender and yourself, there will be excerpts of Biblical principles and questions to ask
yourself after each chapter and Biblical reading. I want the reader to do the work in getting
themselves to a place of peace.
Target Audience
This book is for anyone who has been betrayed by a loved one, cheated on, sexually
abused, physically abused, verbally abused, riddled by pain of a loved one whom was murdered,
had a bad upbringing (maybe mother or father was an alcoholic or drug addict), there are
ultimately countless of hurts that someone could be suffering with, but it is my sincere hope that
this book will touch everyone who is imprisoned by the pain of the offense and unforgiveness.
This book will be for the reader who is interested in attaining freedom, who wants to get rid of
the garbage that is plaguing their souls, who wants to move on and grow as a better person, and
who wants to see themselves as a victor instead of a victim.
The journey of a better self will appeal to the audience. There is not a person on this
planet that does not at some point want to reach their highest potential, want to see new levels be
accomplished and greater heights reached, but first you have to deal with the trash or the mess
first, as I like to think, you have to leave everything that would hinder your growth or
advancement in the wilderness before you move on into your promised land. What would also
appeal to the audience about this book is the killing of pride. Pride is a silent poison in the action
of forgiving and this book will silently address that aspect by discussing other areas around
pride. The avenues this book can take and the depth this book can take you, if you allow it will
challenge you to look at the situation from another perspective. If you want to grow, you want to
be challenged. If you want to forgive, you must learn about love and how true love keeps no
records of wrong doings.
The questions this book will answer are, Why do I have to forgive? Why do I have to
love my offender? How do I let go of the pain? Why does unforgiveness carry so much power?
Why is it easy for the person that hurt me to go on with their lives, meanwhile I am not resting at
night? How do I forgive my mom or dad for being an addict and not being a parent? How do I
forgive the family member or stranger that raped me? Why is it that hurt people, hurt people, but
yet I make it a priority to not repeat the cycle? Why can I not let it go? What did I do to them?
What about me, said, Hi I am a punching bag? Many questions will be explored and answered
throughout this process. Yes, process, because forgiveness is not microwaveable, it takes time,
effort, selflessness, maturity, and prayer.

This book will fulfill the need to be heard. Many people want to be heard, want someone
to hear this or that hurt me and I feel this or that way. It is painful when you have been hurt and
someone comes along and dismisses the hurt like it was minuscule or says, Let it go, when in
fact you want to scream and say, No! that hurt me, my feelings are not irrelevant. Too many
people walk around with a faade of being made of steel, but in fact nobody is bullet proof. This
book will give voice to the hurt and embark on a new voice of liberation from it. I want the
audience to walk away from this book changed; I need for the audience to understand
forgiveness, even if the offender does not ask for it, to forgive. Take for instance, Nelson
Mandela. He stated, I had to leave the hurt, anger, bitterness, resentment in the prison, I had to
forgive, for if I had not, I would have still been imprisoned.
Survey of Related Titles (the complete landscape)
Do Yourself a Favor.Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through
Forgiveness.
Author: Joyce Meyer
Publisher: FaithWords
Copyright Date: 2012
Page Length: 208 pages

Do Yourself a Favor.Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through

Forgiveness is a book that is written by Joyce Meyer who is a world Biblical leader.
Joyce Meyer takes a deeper look into the process of forgiveness. She explains how
forgiving can have a positive impact on the foundational reasons of the root of anger,
because much of forgiveness is wrapped around anger from the hurt that was inflicted
upon them by someone else. The book explains why you should forgive and how much
freedom can come from forgiving. This book is more geared towards anger, the root of
forgiveness. This book serves as a guide to learn how to achieve inner peace through
delving into the anger and then uprooting the anger out to achieve forgiveness.
Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly is similar to Joyce Meyers book because it will explore
the root of the hurt which ultimately is anger. Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly will
explain in greater depth how letting go will achieve remarkable ground breaking freedom
in your life and thus will cause you to live better and subsequently navigate through life.
What is different from Joyce Meyers book is her book does not discuss how to forgive
someone that has not asked for forgiveness. Her book and Giving Your Soul Freedom to
Fly differ because of generalization and specificity. Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly will
not only address anger, but love, and various scenarios that need forgiving.

Forgiveness: Overcoming the Impossible

Author: Matthew West

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Copyright date: 2013
Page Length: 208 pages

Forgiveness: Overcoming the Impossible is a book that discovers other peoples healing
process. This book, shares stones of betrayal, addiction, abandonment, divorce, death,
and etc. The story exemplifies Gods Word of Faithfulness and restoration, and concludes
with the message of salvation. Forgiveness: Overcoming the Impossible is a book that
relishes in the stories and journeys of people whom have overcome their unforgiveness
and maps out their success to completing their journey of forgiveness. This book also
shares content about how to forgive yourself. This book is a book that people can
empathize with and use to help themselves learn how to master the art of forgiveness in
their own similar situation.
Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly compares to Forgiveness: Overcoming the Impossible
because this book incorporates discussions about betrayal, addiction, divorce, and death.
Much to the degree that Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly does. The two books differ
because Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly will not include real stories from people trying
to overcome forgiveness, but will only include scenarios that the audience will be able to
empathize with. The two books also vary because Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly is not
necessarily specifically teaching how to forgive yourself, but with forgiveness comes
forgiving yourself along the way.

Forgiveness: Finding Peace Through Letting Go

Author: Adam Hamilton
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Copyright Date: 2012
Page Length: 160 pages

Forgiveness: Finding Peace Through Letting Go is a book that examines four particular
relationships where we as humans are in need of receiving or extending forgiveness: our
individual relationship with God, coupling with our relationship with others such as our spouses
or partners, parents and siblings, and other human beings. The book explains that there are a
plethora of aspects to forgiveness and explains that each situation is unique. The foundation of
this book is rooted from Biblical principles. The chapters begin with the verses from the Bible.
Upon reading the reviews for this book, one comment stated, Hamiltons work is sweet, simple,
and fill of application. He illustrates often, depicting carrying the burden of anger like a
backpack of stones. Nothing in this work is too complex for believers to easily grasp and

immediately apply. The premise of this book is to open peoples awareness of forgiving, so we
can receive Gods forgiveness.
Forgiveness: Finding Peace Through Letting Go and Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly
ironically are seemingly similar when it comes to the spiritual aspect of the books. Both
books incorporate Biblical principles and Biblical verses. The foundations of the two
books are on a spiritual healing basis from a Biblical perspective. Although both books
are similar, the differences with the two carry much weight. Giving Your Soul Freedom to
Fly will not zero in on the relationship you have with God, but will present the idea of a
relationship with God through a different angle. That angle being forgiveness and
healing. Much like addicts heal and find God, Giving Your Soul Freedom to Fly will
enable you to take a spiritual journey in finding forgiveness which will open your heart to
a deeper relationship with God or start a relationship with God.
Brief outline of your book
Topic: How to forgive someone when the offender has not nor will not ask for forgiveness?
1) Defining Forgiveness
a.) Spiritual
b.) Worldly view
2) The Cause and Effect
a.) What happened?
b.) How did the offense affect you?
3) Love
a.) What is love?
b.) How to love?
c.) How to walk in love?
4) Various Scenarios
5) Biblical Scriptures
6) Questions to ask yourself
7) Day Journal to help navigate through the process

Special Features
I will add pictures of a Bible for the Biblical Scriptures sections of the book. This will
look appealing to the reader because it will give some edge to the book. I will also incorporate a
question image section to let the reader know this is a nice place to stop and question how you
felt and what you comprehended from that section. At the back of the book will be an image of a
journal and possibly an image of someone writing because this will add to the various imageries
throughout the book and will also inspire the reader to write.
About the Author
I have been through a grave deal of hurt and pain and although I am a lot better today,
forgiveness is still a work in progress for me. I recently had the opportunity to speak to one of
the people that offended me deeply and I was able to forgive them after our discussion and the
weight that I felt that lifted off of me is indescribable. I am writing on this topic because I choose

to not be a victim, but a victor. I want to forgive. I want to give myself the gift of peace and
through the process of writing this book on forgiveness, I will heal myself. In a way, this will be
cathartic for me. What makes me qualified to write on this topic is the fact that I have forgiven
some that have hurt me without them admitting to the offense, thus asking for forgiveness. I have
a personal stake in this area and have healed in a lot of ways in this area, but in other ways have
not. With this book, I want to inspire others to let go and live freely, so that blessings will be able
to flow in your life, so that you can sleep at night, so that you can conquer other obstacles that
will arise. I am not a professional (yet), I am not a miracle worker, and I am not a person that is
trying to sell you the clich, that if I did it, you can do it too. I am simply a woman who has dealt
with forgiving and is dealing with forgiving those who have hurt me to my core and will not
apologize and probably will never apologize. One would say, I am writing from a place of hurt,
but I am writing from a place of peace and forgiveness and I want my audience to achieve this
feeling as well.