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Your journey to forgiveness begins now!
Forgiveness: A Guided Journal, is designed to create a path toward self-love, inner peace, and freedom.
The daily practice of forgiveness is a rewarding pursuit that can help you become your best self. You will experience personal growth and transformation.
Are you willing to release unforgiveness? Did you know that when you hold unforgiveness in your heart you only punish yourself? You don’t need to forgive the action, just the person – so you can be at peace.
Healing your heart is only possible when you are willing to let go of anger and resentment. I encourage you to use this journal to be empowered to forgive.
“Forgiveness is an act of self-love that leads to inner peace and freedom.” – Greta Counts
Who Moved My Curves? 4-Week Lifestyle & Fitness Transformation Workbook
This is a companion workbook to the book Who Moved My Curves? which is available here. It can also be used with my 28-day program.
Use this workbook to help you get back your mojo, your body & your life, without living in the gym, endless hard cardio, or starving yourself. This workbook compliments the materials and four RENT principles Bernette teaches in the book.
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Who Moved My Curves?
Get Your Body and Life Back Without Living in the Gym, Endless Cardio, or Starving Yourself!
Who stole my life? If you’re a woman in your middle years and find yourself struggling with weight gain, stress, and a loss of vitality, I wrote Who Moved My Curves? for you! This is your guide to reclaiming your body, your confidence, and your mojo.
I was there! In my 40s carrying every bit of the stress, hormonal, and midlife weight like a useless spare tire while also dealing mood swings, night sweats, hot flashes, other strange symptoms, and brain fog that reminded me of when I was pregnant. I looked it too! Enough was enough! This was not how this season of my life was supposed to be.
Over three months I got back my body, my confidence, and my mojo and now I’m helping you do it too.
Are you hitting midlife and feeling overwhelmed by the physical and emotional changes that come with it?
Who Moved My Curves? is both empowering and transformative, offering a holistic approach to navigating the challenges of midlife. In these pages you’ll discover my RENT principles, which are four practical and universal principles for:
- Managing stress: Learn effective techniques to reduce anxiety and improve your overall well-being during midlife.
- Improving rest and sleep: Discover the importance of quality sleep and how to create a restful environment.
- Embracing exercise: Find enjoyable and sustainable workouts that fit your lifestyle and goals.
- Nourishing yourself: Learn the secrets to healthy eating and fueling your body with the nutrients it needs.
- Cultivating self-care: Prioritize self-care practices to nurture your mind, body, and spirit for lifelong wellness.
Who Moved My Curves? is not a diet or just an exercise plan. It’s a roadmap to a healthier, happier you.
But First Crawl
What do I, a new divorcee, and my handsome landlord have in common? Definitely more than a wayward washing machine and the shared wall of our duplex.
- Not married
- Empty-nesters
- An average of five decades of life
- Emotionally unavailable for love
Yes to all of the above, plus on top of that, you can add perimenopause for me. I’m only 47. Thought I had some time.
I have to figure out my whole life…again.
Now, it’s time for new friends and to take care of my hot bod (hot flashes and night sweats?).
I’m better than this (I think), but when Mike needs to fix things around the duplex, suddenly, I’m awkward, hyperaware, and trying not to check him out. A body like his isn’t even fair.
I’m not looking for a romantic relationship but Mike makes that hard without even trying.
But like everything else in my life, making new friends, like Mike and even women my age, can’t just be simple. Not when my past is in my face trying to sabotage a happy future.
Can I get myself together enough to have a chance at the life I want, one with Mike in it?
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In this sweet romantic comedy, all this happens through the eyes of Pristine and Mike—both navigating loss, relationships, and being vulnerable enough to love again.
This book is perfect for readers of Jenny Proctor and Emily Ford looking for a book you can digest after dinner and still be in bed on time. After all, sleep is essential in our middle years.
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- Second-chances romance
- FMC and MC over 40
- Interracial couple / interracial dating
- Contemporary romance
Forgiveness: A Guided Journal
Your journey to forgiveness begins now!
Forgiveness: A Guided Journal, is designed to create a path toward self-love, inner peace, and freedom.
The daily practice of forgiveness is a rewarding pursuit that can help you become your best self. You will experience personal growth and transformation.
Are you willing to release unforgiveness? Did you know that when you hold unforgiveness in your heart you only punish yourself? You don’t need to forgive the action, just the person – so you can be at peace.
Healing your heart is only possible when you are willing to let go of anger and resentment. I encourage you to use this journal to be empowered to forgive.
“Forgiveness is an act of self-love that leads to inner peace and freedom.” – Greta Counts
Light of the Dark Moon
AS A PRINCESS, MAGIC AND DUTY ARE IN HER BLOOD. AT LEAST THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE.
An overlooked princess journeys to the edges of the realm to reclaim her stolen magic but discovers her entire world is at risk of destruction.
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At twenty, Lafia Ketonga has reached the age of eligibility. She only has to pass her Demonstration of Magic and she can officially begin courting and start her path to her dream of being a light leader. However, her magic is inconsistent and she’s pretty sure it’s broken. She’s also certain that the gray smoke that has grown over the mountains above her kingdom of Narut, has something to do with it.
Lafia finds herself on an adventure that takes her to the magical land where her former mentor lives, and beyond, all with the hope she’ll find the answer to her failed magic.
Despite the impossible choice she faces between her dreams and saving the world and people she loves, she always remembers what all the royals of Faduwata understand. Faduwata is, always.
Protect and Clear with the Divine
UPDATED in 2022! From toxic people to bad energy and protecting of your home, family, and personal space this spellbook (prayerbook) is a magical tool for protecting and clearing the energy and the space around you and all you care about.
Bernette shares what she did for her home, family, and herself with you so you can have peace of mind.
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Protect and Clear with the Divine meets a need today with prayers for protection for everyday people. Born from the author’s personal needs and those of her clients, Bernette has provided more than twenty prayers and clearing statements for protecting and clearing people and spaces, removing negative energy, helping those in transition from this life, closing spiritual portals, and more. Whether you consider yourself spiritual, are traditional, or non-traditional, there is something in this book to help you walk in your power by covering you with the Light of the Divine. You’ll want to keep it handy so you can come back to it time and time again. I sincerely hope it brings you peace, protection, and the clarity it has provided me and my clients.
Star Jumpers
At 17 I’m not trying to be a hero. I’m just trying to get home to my family but I either dismantle an intergalactic traffic ring or lose them.
The signed paperback is available in 47 continental United States (with the exception of Georgia, Alaska, and Hawaii) only and is shipped by media mail. Please allot 7 business days for order processing.
Immunity should have been a good thing. But to escape the captors holding her and her family hostage for immunity testing, she didn’t just jump out of the facility, but off the planet. Now she’s light years from Earth and escaping aliens but getting back home means ending an intergalactic trafficking ring. Can she do it before everyone she loves is gone?
The Story of Ervin James
From Loss to Legacy – The Story of Ervin James matters
They couldn’t keep him from the dream. They couldn’t take away his legacy. The shoulders that strained under the weight of pain and slavery are the shoulders we stand on.
Inspired by Ervin James who lived in the 1800s. Ervin James overcame great odds, pain, loss, and suffering to leave a legacy when he managed to purchase over 100 acres of land and found a community for freed blacks in 1870. It’s a story of hope, love, and the family we make – including the unexpected.
This story is also of the strength and resilience of those who lived through these times and continue to live through their descendants today. Ervin’s story is told against the backdrop of a pre-civil-war era and then through it, gracefully incorporating history and culture into the experience of reading about his life.
The Story of Ervin James is a carefully crafted, yet fictionalized, full length historical novel inspired by the life of Ervin James, a Black enslaved man, who lived in the 1800s. It is written by his great-great-great granddaughter.
Resist Persist
From Rise Again:
Inside I scream, my cries unheard
Midnight in the garden of my inner world
Wrestle woman! Fight back! I yell
Lips unparted as I crawl through hell
Do you hear me – the time is now
Are you strong enough to break this ground
Till the soil and turn the roots
Rid us of the disease tormenting you
If you are one of those special people who understands that resistance and persistence can go hand in hand and that we have a duty to persist in our truth and our highest sense of self, then this book is for you.
Find Bernette’s books on Amazon here.
Theatre and Events
Her play Four Wives and a Will, written and directed by Bernette Sherman, was selected for and produced as part of the 2021 SheATL Summer Theatre Festival and now available for production licensing through SheNYC Arts.
Her play Soil was commissioned as part of the Blue Series and held at the historic Apex Museum in 2022.
Scenes & Spoken Word
