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To HELL With NO!: Adventures in Finally Saying YES!
361 pages, Paperback
Published November 13, 2025
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November 26, 2025
Asha Mevlana’s To HELL With NO! is hard to categorize. Part memoir, part self-help book, this isn’t just a story about big adventures (although there are plenty of those), but instead, it pulls you into something deeper: the story of a woman who she’s done with letting fear run her life.
Mevlana writes with the kind of clarity that comes from not just having lived through the high points, but from having lived through the uncomfortable, often painful parts.
Whether she’s dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 24 and again at 49, pushing her physical limits (sky diving, anyone?), sitting through the challenges of a silent meditation retreat, or trying to quiet the small and often not so small voice that keeps saying “you can’t,” she invites you into her life. Reading the book feels like a conversation with a close friend: intimate, but not indulgent, encouraging, but never preachy.
The book is not structured as a linear memoir, but jumps around different times in Mevlana’s life, but the time jumps never feel jarring and always make perfect sense. Each chapter is followed with a section about what she learned from each particular life experience, along with terrific suggestions and exercises for the reader to delve into their own life.
As someone who lives with low grade anxiety, I found this book inspirational. Mevlana doesn’t treat fear as an obstacle, but rather, as a teacher. By allowing us to walk with her through the moments when she felt the fear and did it anyway, as the saying goes, she makes the act of saying “yes” feel possible for everyone.
Despite the hardships Mevlana dealt with throughout her life, this is also a book filled with joy: the joy of discovery, of trusting your own instincts, of finding peace in unexpected places. There’s a sense of expansion that happens as she moves through her adventures, and it’s infectious. I found myself marking passages and thinking about areas of my own life where I default to “no.” This book is encouraging me to take a closer look at some of these areas and figuring out how to turn the “no” into “yes.”
This book inspires without lecturing, nudges you forward without pushing, and reminds you that life opens up when you do. It’s heartfelt, wise, and tender. It’s the kind of book you’ll want to keep going back to again and again.
Mevlana writes with the kind of clarity that comes from not just having lived through the high points, but from having lived through the uncomfortable, often painful parts.
Whether she’s dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 24 and again at 49, pushing her physical limits (sky diving, anyone?), sitting through the challenges of a silent meditation retreat, or trying to quiet the small and often not so small voice that keeps saying “you can’t,” she invites you into her life. Reading the book feels like a conversation with a close friend: intimate, but not indulgent, encouraging, but never preachy.
The book is not structured as a linear memoir, but jumps around different times in Mevlana’s life, but the time jumps never feel jarring and always make perfect sense. Each chapter is followed with a section about what she learned from each particular life experience, along with terrific suggestions and exercises for the reader to delve into their own life.
As someone who lives with low grade anxiety, I found this book inspirational. Mevlana doesn’t treat fear as an obstacle, but rather, as a teacher. By allowing us to walk with her through the moments when she felt the fear and did it anyway, as the saying goes, she makes the act of saying “yes” feel possible for everyone.
Despite the hardships Mevlana dealt with throughout her life, this is also a book filled with joy: the joy of discovery, of trusting your own instincts, of finding peace in unexpected places. There’s a sense of expansion that happens as she moves through her adventures, and it’s infectious. I found myself marking passages and thinking about areas of my own life where I default to “no.” This book is encouraging me to take a closer look at some of these areas and figuring out how to turn the “no” into “yes.”
This book inspires without lecturing, nudges you forward without pushing, and reminds you that life opens up when you do. It’s heartfelt, wise, and tender. It’s the kind of book you’ll want to keep going back to again and again.
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