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For a few days only* JessicaSmithTV if offering a very special summer discount on her fitness DVDS sold on Amazon.

SAVE 30% OFF SELECT DVDs!

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I have all of these DVDS and LOVE them. I would highly recommend getting them on sale if you don’t already have them.
Comment below if you have any question on any of these dvds-I’d love to help you.
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Product Description
Get fit in just 15 minutes a day!
Rack up your daily step count, boost your energy and mood or simply squeeze in a quick, complete workout on a busy day! Mix and match your walks, add one on to your favorite routine or pick your preference for the day.
This DVD includes 4 fun, 15-Minute Fat Blasting Walks: 15-Minute Fast Fat Burn 15-Minute Power Pick Up 15-Minute Belly Blaster 15-Minute Dance Party

Product Description
Create your own personal walking plan with our separate segments and customizable menu:
Warm Up (5 Minutes)
Mile #1: Brain Booster (15 Minutes)
Mile #2: Belly, Buns and Thighs (15 Minutes)
Mile #3: Power Posture Walk (15 Minutes)
Mile #4: Turbo Charged Walk (13 Minutes)
Mile #5: Boogie Down Walk (15 Minutes)
Cool Down (5 Minutes)
PLUS, ADD IN OUR TWO BONUS WORKOUTS ANYTIME TO HELP YOU WALK STRONG AND PAIN FREE FOR YEARS TO COME!
The Strong Feet and Ankles Workout (15 Minutes): Grab a sturdy chair, a towel and slip off your shoes to work on strengthening and stretching the often overlooked muscles in your feet and ankles.
The Strong Knees and Hips Routine (15 Minutes): Help keep your knees and hips pain free by strengthening and stretching key lower body muscles with this routine.
Total Run Time: Approx. 115 Minutes

Product Description
This 21-Day Weight Loss Workout Plan Slims, Sculpts and Relieves Stress! Created by fitness expert Jessica Smith, this all-new program is the most effective, efficient and FUN way to get fit, have more energy and improve your health.
Featuring 4, unbeatable 30-Minute walking-based workouts that combine low impact, calorie burning cardio, metabolism boosting strength training, 360-degree standing abs conditioning, plus flexibility and stress relief, this plan will maximize your energy and fat burning potential! Whether you are just starting to exercise or have been walking for years, there are options for all levels with this plan!
Walks Include:
30-Minute Cardio Core Build a strong, flat, pulled in waistline and burn more calories with this standing, 360-degree abs session!
30-Minute Low Impact HIIT This joint friendly, interval walk is designed to help you progress gradually into higher intensity work for maximum fat burning benefit and safety.
30-Minute Tred and Shred This interval strength session combines resistance training with walking to make it easy (and even fun!) to build metabolically active lean muscle mass.
Optional Equipment: Dumbbells 30-Minute Stride, Stretch and Relax This recovery session is designed to get your blood flowing, boost your mood and help stretch out sore, tight muscles.
Equipment used: A sturdy, high back chair

Product Description
STRETCH AND STRENGTHEN YOUR BODY, MIND AND SOUL.
Develop a strong foundation of total body strength, stamina and flexibility with these two complete practices:
AM: Energizing Flow (30 Minutes) This energizing series is the perfect way to start your day, or to boost your energy anytime. Develop strength and functional flexibility from head to toe with this series of stamina building poses and exercises.
PM: Relaxing Flow (30 Minutes) Wind down from a hectic day and stretch out stress and soreness with this relaxing series of yoga postures that incorporate a pillow and a beach towel (or yoga strap) to gently assist your body into deeper stretches to help improve range of motion and overall flexibility. Feel free to alternate between the two practices each day or add them both into your daily routine. Listen to your body to find the perfect balance for your schedule and needs.

Product Description
The best workout plan for weight loss includes a wide variety of different styles and intensity to maximize your results and help beat boredom. This 4-DVD set includes a complete set of FUN home workout routines designed to build metabolically active lean muscle mass, calorie burning cardio, targeted abs training and stress-relieving flexibility work. Lose weight and feel great with this 4-DVD collection from fitness expert Jessica Smith. Mix up your routine with a variety of different styles (including walking, strength training, barre, Pilates, kickboxing and more) and intensity for best results.
This 4-DVD Weight Loss Set includes 13 different, complete routines:
DVD #1: 10 POUNDS DOWN CARDIO ABS (86 Minutes) Cardio Abs (28 Minutes) Total Body Abs Transformer (28 Minutes) Concentrated Abs (26 Minutes) Tummy Torching Tabata (4 Minutes)
DVD #2: WALKING FOR WEIGHT LOSS, WELLNESS & ENERGY DVD (70 Minutes) Walking Warm Up (5 Minutes) High Energy Walk (30 Minutes) Power Walk (30 Minutes) Cool Down & Stretch (5 Minutes)
DVD #3: TOTAL BODY BALANCE DVD (80 Minutes) Cardio Flow (20 Minutes) Sole Sculpt (20 Minutes) Core Stretch (20 Minutes) Cardio Dance Sculpt (20 Minutes)
DVD #4: BARRE FITNESS DVD (60 Minutes) Cardio Ballet (20 Minutes) Barre Burn (20 Minutes) Floor Barre (20 Minutes)
About Your Instructor: Jessica Smith is a certified trainer, instructor and author, a monthly online contributor for SHAPE Magazine and host of JESSICASMITHTV. For more information, please visit jessicasmithtv.com.

*Offer begins Monday July 20th at 12:01am PDT and ends Wednesday July 22nd at 11:59pm PDT. Valid only in U.S., DVD sales only, only while supplies last.

Ready for more? Don’t miss our other workouts! Get a complete fitness plan by combining this program with our two companion DVDs (sold separately), “Walk On: 15-Minute Fast Fat Blasts” and “Walk On: 21-Day Weight Loss Plan.”

About Your Instructor: Jessica Smith is a certified trainer, instructor, wellness coach and host of JESSICASMITHTV on YouTube. For more information, please visit jessicasmithtv.com.

Gone without a Trace (Logan Point #3) by Patricia Bradley

This says that it’s book 3 of the Logan Point series, but I haven’t read books 1 or 2, so you can read this as a stand alone book. Homicide detective Livy returns home on personal leave and volunteers to help an out of town private investigator find a missing girl. The missing girl’s story is almost exactly like Livy’s missing cousin’s story and she can’t help but feel the cases are linked together. Livy and Alex work together to figure out what’s happened to the girls before someone else goes missing or gets killed.

This was a fast paced, romantic, suspenseful novel. I haven’t read anything by this author and I really enjoyed this story, so I will be reading more of this series. Although this book was intense and suspenseful, it was still clean and had a good message about forgiveness and faith. I really enjoyed it!

I was given a complimentary copy of this book from Revell Books, a division of of Baker Publishing Group, in exchange for an honest review on my blog and social media-all opinions are my own.

About the Book
It’s been more than two years since homicide detective Livy Reynolds’s cousin disappeared from Logan Point. Unlike most people in her hometown, Livy has never believed that Robyn left voluntarily. When Dallas private investigator Alex Jennings contacts Livy concerning a missing senator’s daughter who was last seen in Logan Point, she notices eerie similarities between the two disappearances. But with self-doubt plaguing her and an almost instant dislike of Jennings, Livy is finding this investigation an uphill battle. With her future in law enforcement on the line, can she find a way to work with a man who is her polar opposite?

About the Author
Patricia Bradley’s manuscript for Shadows of the Past was a finalist for the 2012 Genesis Award, winner of a 2012 Daphne du Maurier award (1st place, Inspirational), and winner of a 2012 Touched by Love award (1st place, Contemporary). Also the author of A Promise to Protect, Bradley is a published short story writer and is cofounder of Aiming for Healthy Families, Inc. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Romance Writers of America and makes her home in Mississippi. Learn more at www.ptbradley.com.

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“Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor” by Melanie Dobson

This book went back and forth between chapters telling Maggie’s story in the 1950s which took place in England; and Heather’s story taking place 60 years later. Heather returns to England after her fathers death to clean out his cottage, and discovers dark family secrets that were meant to be kept secret.

I enjoyed reading this book, however I did find it somewhat depressing and emotional. The characters all experienced betrayal, heart ache, deceit and lost loves. There were some happy parts of the book when Heather started piecing together family secrets and reunited with a long time friend.

I would consider this a Christian, historical fiction book; however the main characters all dealt with moral issues so I wouldn’t recommend this book to young adults.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from LitFuse Publicity in exchange for an honest review on my blog and social media-all opinions are my own.

About the book:
Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor (Howard, June 2015)

When Heather Toulson returns to her parents’ cottage in the English countryside, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about her family history and stumbles onto the truth about a sixty-year-old murder.

Libby, a free spirit who can’t be tamed by her parents, finds solace with her neighbor Oliver, the son of Lord Croft of Ladenbrooke Manor. Libby finds herself pregnant and alone when her father kicks her out and Oliver mysteriously drowns in a nearby river. Though theories spread across the English countryside, no one is ever held responsible for Oliver’s death.

Sixty years later, Heather Toulson, returning to her family’s cottage in the shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor, is filled with mixed emotions. She’s mourning her father’s passing but can’t let go of the anger and resentment over their strained relationship. Adding to her confusion, Heather has an uneasy reunion with her first love, all while sorting through her family’s belongings left behind in the cottage. What she uncovers will change everything she thought she knew about her family’s history.

Award-winning author Melanie Dobson seamlessly weaves the past and present together, fluidly unraveling the decades-old mystery and reveals how the characters are connected in shocking ways.

Set in a charming world of thatched cottages, lush gardens, and lovely summer evenings, this romantic and historical mystery brings to light the secrets and heartaches that have divided a family for generations.

About the author:
Melanie Dobson is the award-winning author of thirteen historical romance, suspense, and contemporary novels. Two of her novels won Carol Awards in 2011, and Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana won Best Novel of Indiana in 2010. Melanie lives with her husband Jon and two daughters near Portland, Oregon.

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Give Yourself a Break: Turning Your Inner Critic into a Compassionate Friend by Kim Fredrickson

I really enjoyed reading this book by this licensed marriage and family therapist of over 30 years. I found it extremely helpful in my own life as well as helping and relating to other family members.

The author describes on page 12 her hopes for this book and why she wrote it-“to provide some understanding of why self-compassion is so hard to extend to ourselves, and second, that it provides hope and and practical help in learning to relate to ourselves in healthy and gracious ways”.

This book is all about having self-compassion. She explains that self-compassion is essential for handling and recovering from the difficulties of life.

She defines self compassion as having the same concern for your own pain and welfare. She goes on to describe it is not self-pity but a balance of truth. She goes into further detail with describing the differences between self compassion and self-esteem.

This book is divided up into 10 chapters with concluding reflection questions at the end of each chapter. She always includes an Appendix B in the back with suggestions on using this book and material with groups, which I found very helpful.

Chapter 6 about “Self Care” was extremely helpful to me and I learned alot in that chapter.

I would highly recommend this self help book if you would like to improve your relationship with yourself and show compassion to yourself and others like God did.

“The relationship we have with ourselves impacts all other relationships in her life, whether we like it or not.”

I was given a complimentary copy of this book from Revell Books, a division of of Baker Publishing Group, in exchange for an honest review on my blog and social media-all opinions are my own.

About the Book
Many people are used to showing compassion to others. What many of us have trouble with is showing that same compassion to ourselves. Too often we say things to ourselves that we would never say to a friend. All this negative self-talk can have a devastating effect on our lives.

Licensed marriage and family therapist Kim Fredrickson wants readers to stop beating themselves up. Grounding her advice in the Bible, she offers practical steps, specific exercises, and compassionate words to say in order to build a loving relationship with ourselves. Through inspiring stories of transformation, she helps us learn to show ourselves the kind of grace and understanding we offer to others–and to change our relationships, our outlook on life, and our view of ourselves in the process.

About the Author
Kim Fredrickson has been a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified Christian life coach for more than twenty-five years. An adjunct professor, speaker, and author, she loves helping people become equipped spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually with practical skills to live more effective and fulfilling lives. Her website offers visitors helpful articles, encouraging recordings, and additional resources. She has been married to her husband, Dave, for thirty-seven years and they have two grown children. Fredrickson lives in Northern California. Learn more and read her blog at www.kimfredrickson.com.

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