Jacqueline Brown

"The Rat Chronicles will leave you in stitches! Stand up comic, Jacqui Brown, is at her finest in this hilarious, heart stopping accounting of the war she has waged on an unwelcome guest in her home - a big, fat, ugly, RAT (turned out to be several mother f@#kers)! No one can weave a tale such as this quite like Brown does!" For 13 days, Facebook lit up, and followers from all around the world tuned in day and night to follow her posts, which ended with her being awarded a purple heart for her wounds and bravery!

The MoJo Manual is like a life bible! Part sage advice, part workbook, and part journal. This book is packed with so much life changing advice, you will finally be able to explore all the darkness that surrounds your emotional suffering. "You might not actually be broken, you might have just lost your MoJo." Use this book as a tool to start undoing some of the damage you thought irreparable. A little work, a little writing, a little healing may occur! You're worth it! #mojomakers

'Here Boy' is the final saga in Brown's book about Beau, the most lovable dog around. If you don't believe in Heaven, you will after you read this heartwarming tale about crossing the bridge.

"Like Brown's 'TRYING TO AVOID CARS' (BOOK 1) and 'THE LONG ROAD TO HEAVEN' (BOOK 2) Here Boy is the kind of book that you just can't put down. Beau's adventures in Cars and Heaven, endeared him to all readers. 'HERE BOY', the final adventure, is the perfect culmination to Beau's story. Laid out beautifully, it is revealing, heartwarming, and heartbreaking!"

What You Should Have Learned In Kindergarten is not your average ABC book!! Written with a modern twist, it's the perfect gift to give your young adult child. It's the answer to that old saying...'if I knew then what I know now'! This cute little book gives them your lessons but in a way they can relate to!

My BIG FAT Book Of Life Quotes (A Tool Kit For Living A Better Life) is filled with powerful honest words meant to inspire you to change how you look at things in your life! Without a doubt, some of these quotes will help you restore your faith in yourself, and will help lead you to fix some of the things that are keeping you sad.

REST, RELAX, RESTORE An Inspirational Healing Coloring Book is now available. Sometimes you just have to kick your shoes off, unplug from the world, and do something for yourself that puts you in a better frame of mind! We live so fast paced these days. We're always busy, busy, busy, and it's easy to get caught up in the minutia of life's goings on! Maybe today is the day you push everything off your plate in order to catch up with you! Coloring has been proven to be very meditative. These hand drawn pictures go hand in hand with the inspirational writings of the author. Take a few moments to read these tasty little nuggets of wisdom and then get out your colored pencils and create a restful place for yourself! Don't worry about always staying in the lines because, just as real life unfolds, lines represent boundaries and sometimes, in order to grow, you must step beyond those boundaries until you feel Rested, Relaxed and Restored! Namaste...

LIVING FORWARD: New Rules is what some are calling 'a vitamin for the soul'! This gem of a book is being hailed as a valuable TOOLKIT for a better life! If you're stuck in a rut, out of answers, prayers or hope, or you have stopped looking for the answers that will bring you a better life, then stop what you're doing and buy this book. It is filled with wise words that can help you find a new way to look at things. Sometimes all you need to do is change your perspective in order to change your outlook on life! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by reading this. Isn't it time you started LIVING FORWARD?

'The Art Of Giving A F@#k' is a must read. Although the title may be a bit much for some, the point is, so many people have stopped giving a f@#k about what's going on in their life leaving them to wonder why their lives are falling apart! In the forward of this book, there are 5 questions you must try to answer! If you can't answer them all with your best interest at heart, then you need to read this beautiful little book!

"Notes To Myself" books 1-6 so far, are little 'gems' that are meant to inspire you into a new way of thinking about your life! The inspiration behind them is that everyone should try to heal from wounds that linger in your life. Many think that life is too short, but I for one know, life is wonderously long so why walk around bearing scars, shame or fear when if fact, you have the ability to let some of it go! This is a series of monthly books that will prompt you to rethink how you see things in your life. They are a precursor to the BIG BOOK "LIVING FORWARD:New Rules, which contains a new rule or inspiration for every day of the year.

'TRYING TO AVOID CARS' is now AVAILABLE! This new version includes the sequel 'The Long Road To Heaven'!

If you're a dog lover like Brown is, you don't want to miss the book that 'CANNOT BE PUT DOWN' according to all who have read it so far! TRYING TO AVOID CARS (Winner: Fiction Debut NaNoWriMo 2012) is a memoir like no other memoir you've ever read. Beau will capture your heart 100% in this amazing tale that takes you on the journey of his life, and what a life it's been! You don't miss this one!

"BITCH PLEASE!" is a romp through the chaos that is my life. It has been called one of the funniest books on Menopause EVER! Some say Brown is the 21st Century Erma Bombeck! Written in true form to Brown's comedic style, you'll find yourself laughing out loud and empathizing with many of the hilarious details of mid-life as she details her journey through life, love and menopause. Nothing is sacred in Ms. Brown's world! "When Menopause moves in, sanity moves out, or so it seems in my house. If you haven't reached it yet, you'll be better prepared for its arrival. If you're in it, you'll appreciate the warped humor. If you're done with it, you'll appreciate the fact that you survived it." ~Jacqui Brown~

"The Art Of Self-Empowerment (Limited Edition) contains all three books in my 'Fix Your Damned Broken Self' series, Drop Your Parachute, Not Your Party Pants, If It's Broke...Change It, Fix It, Or Let It Go, The Art Of Self Empowerment. If you've got an hour, you can change your life with these morsels of wisdom from Jacqui Brown.

"The Art Of Self Empowerment" is the third book in my Fix Your Damned Broken Self series. Sometimes you just need to see things on paper to make them clear in your mind. Though it is short and sweet, the message is clear. Time to spring clean your mind and get on with your happy self!

"If It's Broke...Change It, Fix It, Or Let It Go!" is the second book in a series of self-help books. The title pretty much explains what you're going to find inside. If you want your life to change, to be different, to be better, to feel more like the you you want to be...then you need to look at how the decisions you make today will affect your life in the future.

You need to change things, fix things or simply let them go! You need to get unstuck! You need to read this book.

"Drop Your Parachute, Not Your Party Pants" is one of those books you'll pick up again and again, just to remind yourself to stay focused on you! If you aren't happy with who you are right now, everything else in your life will be coated with a shade of gray. This sweet little book will help you refocus on the things that will change your life for the better...and it won't cost you anything more than a little time, patience and self-focus!

'the MAZE' is a book/workbook, which will guide you through the process of healing. Step by step, you will move through the MAZE towards a better quality of life by losing many of your bad habits. It's simple, sensible, and when you do the work and see the words you've written, you will see the future in a much brighter light.

"Laughing My Ass Off" Volume 1-4 are classic joke books. I compiled and edited more than 10 years of jokes that had been emailed to me. I put this collection together so you can share a laugh with your friends and family. They sell like hotcakes because, in this day and age, who of us couldn't stand a laugh a day!

"Dancing With The Devil", was named Best Book award finalist by USA Book News. I wrote it over a period of ten years as my daughter's addiction took on a life of its own. The gloves came off when it seemed like there was no hope, but in this situation, hope was all I had. You can send them to rehab, but there are no promises there. As a parent you hold on for dear life and hope that their journey ends with life not death. 'Dancing' is about faith, hope, and salvation in an impossible situation. It's about tying a knot at the end of your rope and holding on.

"Recovery's A Bitch...as if menopause alone wasn't bad enough!" the sequel to Dancing With The Devil, is a look at recovering from recovery. At times you will laugh out loud as you travel along with me in my pursuit of happiness, of getting my life back in order.

PRESS: Forget the Shock Jock. Meet Shock Mom.

Embracing "Shock" Therapy to Bring Healing to Families of Addicts

By Chris Bertrand

Jacqui Brown wants to break down barriers, bulldoze the walls of silence, relegating that game face of "I'm OK; You're OK" back to the closet. To that end, Brown, author of Recovery's a Bitch. as if Menopause Alone Wasn't Bad Enough! brings her raw, in your face and purposely unnerving style to your nearby Kindle, paperback and blog. By page three, she she has you asking yourself, "What the..?"

Then, you find you're committed. Envision picking glass shards from your body after an explosion. You're horrified. You can't stop, but neither can you look away. It's also unclear if leaving the shards in or taking them out will cause more pain, or even death. So you keep reading.

Yet, when all the bloody pieces are laid on the table, and the catharsis is done, you're the better for it. Her nonstop rant has accomplished its goal. Brown has shouted and sworn all those words and the previously whispered behind the door concepts of teenage addiction, rehab and relapse out loud for long enough, that the inability to speak of it disappears.

A few years back, Brown, a stay at home mom with two children and a music producer husband, Paul Brown, were living a privileged So Cal life. Then the "devil" took up residence. Their teenage daughter became addicted to drugs.

Gallows humor and a game face sufficed for a while, as she made offhanded remarks to friends in carpool and at Starbucks about the latest extrication of their daughter from a nearby drug house and near death experiences.

When full blown menopause met the tornado of her daughter's addiction, the Jacqui Brown perfect storm hit. The gloves came off. The game face was shoved in the closet, but thankfully the humor stayed.

Her critical message is that in order to recover, one must be willing to change. The Encarta Dictionary defines "recover" as "to regain something, to get back something previously lost" but also to "control or correct yourself, to return to a composed state."

Brown decided she could change her life, and recover in both definitions of the word, from menopause, and from her daughter's addiction. From the wild highs, lows and hormonal fluctuations of menopause, and from being completely and utterly responsible for her daughter's every move, error, her ultimate happiness or unhappiness, even of her existence.

Jacqui Brown's path to her own recovery involves an unfiltered, gut wrenching, guffaw-filled intimate look inside. The pain, the laughs, the sagging neckline and drooping breasts can be felt right through the pages written as though the reader were on the other end of a longwinded telephone conversation.

The result is feeling like you've lived it, and can perhaps learn from her journey. Brown's passionate stream of consciousness book performs "shock" therapy without a medical license, but in full control of the ultimate trump

card, motherhood. The taboo topic of surviving a family member's addiction has just been thrust into everyday conversation, brought into the bright light. by a mom. Thanks, mom!