“Life is not about what you accumulate or how much you achieve, but rather is a playground in which to experience ourselves in”.
Tara Schiller – Living an Alive Life
Since I started blogging I have had the pleasure of meeting a range of wonderful and intelligent women. Fellow bloggers, we all share a common purpose which is to write. I have seen a lot written over the years that would fall into the ‘self help’ criteria and not a lot of it makes me sit up and take notice. As a qualified Coach by profession, I have high standards when it comes to the integrity of the advice given out and the way words are written in the public domain. So when I meet someone who writes in a beautiful and professional style, and her words provide support and advice in a way that is meaningful, then I get excited.
So it is with delight that I would like to provide my support to Tara Schiller, and introduce her new E-book ‘Living an Alive Life’ to you.
Using the experience of her own life, Tara provides a pathway for you to start living a more honest life. Providing real and straight forward advice Tara gives you the control in the process which is one of the things I like the most. Tara’s blog is beautifully written and a wonderful source of advice and this book is an extension of that. I wish her the very best with the launch of her book, and now I would like to introduce you to Tara.
- SaltyBug
For years I was searching for something that would quench the ever present angst I held within me. It was as if there were questions hanging in the wind and I needed them answered before I would ever have peace. There were many avenues I traveled, thinking each and every one of them would be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe, but it wasn’t until I found myself that I realized I’d been looking in all the wrong places.
I had never before known that with all my searching for the way the world worked, why we were here in the first place, and what our purpose could possibly be, what I was actually seeking was an identity. I wanted someone to tell me the ultimate “good” so I could align with it and feel relieved of the possibility of doing something wrong. In short, I was looking for the perfect mold to make my projection from, so that I could ensure that I was worthy of love from not only other people but God himself.
So I was surprised when I happened upon my true unfiltered self. I hadn’t been searching for it, as up until this point, I’d been looking for external answers only. But during a meditation, I was confronted with a place within me that held the deepest parts of who I was.
To be honest, it scared me to death. I was so afraid to look at it, because I was sure that everything buried that deep could only be horribly bad. But when I worked up the courage to finally look, I was in awe. I’d never seen something as amazing and beautiful as me. That was the beginning of a new journey.
I no longer felt that I needed something external to make me worthy of love, because I loved myself. And in loving myself I could see that I was absolutely worthy of love from anybody and anything. And that even if they didn’t love me, I no longer believed it had something to do with my worthiness, but rather their inability to see who I was.
And because I believed that anything and everything about me was amazing, I stopped trying to hide it, and that was when I came alive! There is nothing like that feeling.
Everything in my life began to change.
Loving who I was, and ridding myself of the shame I’d carried for so long, made an entirely different person bloom out of me. I changed my relationships, style of parenting, way of living, and what I ate.
I began to dance and sing, and my personal belief went through the roof.
Now that I valued my own desire as a good enough reason to chase something, I began to design a life that mattered to me.
When I created the Absolutely Tara Blog to hold myself accountable to living an alive and open life, I began to see that other people wanted to live by these values as well. I posted my processes and thinking, and all around me I was getting feedback as to how my thoughts and practices were helping people to change their own lives. And that’s how my book was born.

In Living an Alive Life, I focus on techniques for discovering your true self, turning those discoveries into something real and tangible with an actionable plan, and implementing tools for dealing with the obstacles that will surface along the way. By doing this, you will be able to live a life that fits you, not one that you’ve been told you’re supposed to live.
Oh, what I had been missing! AMAZING!
How could I have never seen?
How could I have never known?!
The most beautiful creature I’d ever beheld stood tall and glorious before my very eyes.
Breathless.
I was breathless.
She stole the very life from me as I stood in awe of her beauty.
Perfection. Perfection as I’d never known perfection could exist!
But she did exist. She was more real than anything I’d ever known.
And she… was me.
-Tara Schiller
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