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Unhackable Soul: Rise Up, Feel Alive, and Live Well with Pain and Illness
Fed up with pain and illness dictating your life?
Choose to rise up.
Living with chronic pain is far from easy. Left unchecked, it erodes your spirit and keeps you living in the dark. It can influence what you believe about yourself and even hack your soul--if you let it.
Author Maureen Sharphouse knows the challenges of living with pain first-hand. She has endured more than three decades of debilitating physical health challenges, including the incurable neurological illness known as "the suicide disease." Yet, in the midst of her daily pain, she lives with passion, joy, and enthusiasm for life.
In thirty daily missions. Unhackable Soul reveals how you can feel vibrantly alive despite chronic pain. Discover how torise up from a life dictated by pain and illness to one fuelled by enthusiasm and purpose.feel alive and experience greater joy, peace, and comfort.wake up every day eager to embrace life despite your challenges. Live well. Reignite your light. It's time to become Unhackable.
Choose to rise up.
Living with chronic pain is far from easy. Left unchecked, it erodes your spirit and keeps you living in the dark. It can influence what you believe about yourself and even hack your soul--if you let it.
Author Maureen Sharphouse knows the challenges of living with pain first-hand. She has endured more than three decades of debilitating physical health challenges, including the incurable neurological illness known as "the suicide disease." Yet, in the midst of her daily pain, she lives with passion, joy, and enthusiasm for life.
In thirty daily missions. Unhackable Soul reveals how you can feel vibrantly alive despite chronic pain. Discover how torise up from a life dictated by pain and illness to one fuelled by enthusiasm and purpose.feel alive and experience greater joy, peace, and comfort.wake up every day eager to embrace life despite your challenges. Live well. Reignite your light. It's time to become Unhackable.
282 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2022
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About the author
Maureen Sharphouse
2 books2 followersMaureen Sharphouse lives with her husband, Peter, their dog, Jackson, and their Birman cat, Phoebe, in the village of Milnathort, Kinross-shire, Scotland. She is a life and mindset coach, mentor, NLP Master Practitioner, writer, and speaker. Maureen’s passion is to inspire and help individuals live a unique legacy they are proud of. Her mission is to help people discover who they are beyond their physical body, live their best lives, and restore and unleash their soul’s fire and passion. Maureen’s vibrant enthusiasm for life is evident despite living with severe daily pain and complex ongoing health challenges. She is a lover of morning sunrises, good coffee, fresh flowers in her home, and spending time with her much-loved family and grandchildren.
You can connect with Maureen at MaureenSharphouse.com.
Sign up for the 30-Day Unhackable Soul Course here: unhackablesouluniversity.com
You can connect with Maureen at MaureenSharphouse.com.
Sign up for the 30-Day Unhackable Soul Course here: unhackablesouluniversity.com
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April 21, 2024
*3.5 stars*
The pen is mightier than the sword, so it’s said. In Unhackable Soul, Maureen Sharphouse attempts to help those who suffer from chronic pain, mainly with words and thoughts, inviting the reader to change their thoughts to change their feelings, some would call it positive thinking or visualisation or indeed the Universal law of attraction.
Maureen herself suffers from an incurable progressive neurological illness and knows only too well the true meaning of pain, but still she manages to look at the brighter side of life using her own methods, which include all of the above, and she is keen to share them with the reader to enable them to also live a good and happy life regardless of their chronic pain.
Personally I am not good with visualisation, but I can imagine that it really helps those who can manage it. There are a lot of inspirational quotes within the book, that are very helpful , and as it is Maureen’s wish to inspire others it’s a case of job done!
*Thank you to Netgalley and Cameron Publicity and Marketing Ltd for an ARC in exchange for an honest unbiased review *
The pen is mightier than the sword, so it’s said. In Unhackable Soul, Maureen Sharphouse attempts to help those who suffer from chronic pain, mainly with words and thoughts, inviting the reader to change their thoughts to change their feelings, some would call it positive thinking or visualisation or indeed the Universal law of attraction.
Maureen herself suffers from an incurable progressive neurological illness and knows only too well the true meaning of pain, but still she manages to look at the brighter side of life using her own methods, which include all of the above, and she is keen to share them with the reader to enable them to also live a good and happy life regardless of their chronic pain.
Personally I am not good with visualisation, but I can imagine that it really helps those who can manage it. There are a lot of inspirational quotes within the book, that are very helpful , and as it is Maureen’s wish to inspire others it’s a case of job done!
*Thank you to Netgalley and Cameron Publicity and Marketing Ltd for an ARC in exchange for an honest unbiased review *
May 9, 2022
As someone who has seen family members suffer from chronic pain/ illness, this book made me understand their life and story a little bit more than before. Maureen flawlessly empathises with the reader and makes you feel as though she is present with you throughout as she shares parts of her inspiring story. She has shared so much knowledge, wisdom and advice that will only help change and improve many peoples lives as this book continues to grow.
April 7, 2025
It has taken me a while to read and review this non-fiction book, as I took it slowly to really absorb and integrate the messages and actions into my daily life.
In this volume, Maureen Sharphouse explores how she, and we, can live well with chronic illness and chronic pain instead of merely surviving living with it. The author’s condition is different from my own, but produces very similar restrictions to a previously ‘normal’ life and similar levels of pain and fatigue, leading to almost identical levels of frustration and helpless hopelessness. The difference is that Maureen Sharphouse had a moment of epiphany and realised that her life could continue to stretch out in front of her as a path of suffering, or she could choose to live in each moment instead, as best and full a life as possible.
The tone throughout is kind and empathetic, sympathetic to the suffering of her readers, but also firmly joyful and positive. Each chapter is bracketed with quotes and ends with both a useful summary of what was said and a ‘Rise’ exercise – one for each of the 30 days the book spans.
Having dutifully followed nearly all of the Rise activities (I don’t share the author’s Christian religious/spiritual beliefs and so read those chapters with interest but bypassed those activities or adapted them to my own belief system) and I noticed immediate improvements – not in my health, or my pain levels, or my energy levels, but in my mood, attitude, positivity and hope levels.
This book reminded me that pain and fatigue doesn’t have to rule my life. It can change my body but it cannot ‘hack’ my soul, my mind, my sense of self. This is such a valuable resource for those struggling with despair at their chronic condition/s and looking for some light in that darkness, and I will be recommending Unhackable Soul to all of my spoonie friends in the hope of spreading that light to as many as possible who need it.
In this volume, Maureen Sharphouse explores how she, and we, can live well with chronic illness and chronic pain instead of merely surviving living with it. The author’s condition is different from my own, but produces very similar restrictions to a previously ‘normal’ life and similar levels of pain and fatigue, leading to almost identical levels of frustration and helpless hopelessness. The difference is that Maureen Sharphouse had a moment of epiphany and realised that her life could continue to stretch out in front of her as a path of suffering, or she could choose to live in each moment instead, as best and full a life as possible.
The tone throughout is kind and empathetic, sympathetic to the suffering of her readers, but also firmly joyful and positive. Each chapter is bracketed with quotes and ends with both a useful summary of what was said and a ‘Rise’ exercise – one for each of the 30 days the book spans.
Having dutifully followed nearly all of the Rise activities (I don’t share the author’s Christian religious/spiritual beliefs and so read those chapters with interest but bypassed those activities or adapted them to my own belief system) and I noticed immediate improvements – not in my health, or my pain levels, or my energy levels, but in my mood, attitude, positivity and hope levels.
This book reminded me that pain and fatigue doesn’t have to rule my life. It can change my body but it cannot ‘hack’ my soul, my mind, my sense of self. This is such a valuable resource for those struggling with despair at their chronic condition/s and looking for some light in that darkness, and I will be recommending Unhackable Soul to all of my spoonie friends in the hope of spreading that light to as many as possible who need it.
October 11, 2022
Living with chronic pain is far from easy. Left unchecked, it erodes your spirit and keeps you living in the dark. It can influence what you believe about yourself and even hack your soul- if you let it. In thirty daily missions, Unhackable Soul reveals how you can feel vibrantly alive despite chronic pain.
Discover how to:
rise up from a life dictated by pain and illness to one fuelled by enthusiasm and purpose
feel alive and experience greater joy, peace, and comfort
waken up every day eager to embrace life despite your challenges.
Unhackable Soul is the 30-day practical and spiritual elixir to reignite the light within.
Discover how to:
rise up from a life dictated by pain and illness to one fuelled by enthusiasm and purpose
feel alive and experience greater joy, peace, and comfort
waken up every day eager to embrace life despite your challenges.
Unhackable Soul is the 30-day practical and spiritual elixir to reignite the light within.
February 4, 2023
Book #1 for the Dewey’s 24 hour Readathon October 2022.
I was really excited when Maureen Sharphouse sent me an Audible audiobook of her memoir, Unhackable Soul. I think the title is very apt, as Maureen is unhackable in my opinion.
In her memoir, she discusses how she got her diagnoses of MS and then Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. The importance of family support is present throughout the book, and the fact Maureen narrates it makes Unhackable Soul even more powerful.
Maureem has experienced dark moments, lonliness, uncertainty and more. I, too have felt, and sometimes still feel these things.
I identified with her in these moments although I have Cerebral Palsy and Hydrocephalus and not the same conditions as she does. Because often living with disabilities is a constant uphill fight, yet that fight is also very personal.
Maureen is a wonderful person and someone I am proud to know, even if it’s through phonecalls and emails. She’s someone who make
me feel immediately at ease, and her naturally soothing voice is perfect for this audiobook. The pacing is unhurried but with great attention to detail, and I can tell that awareness of her conditions is important to Maureen, as are family, friends and the times she is in places that are special to her.
Unhackable Soul has so many life lessons, and listening to it is like having Maureen in the room with you. It’s like a friendly chat from a caring and empathic friend.
I wonder if one day I’ll meet Maureen? I hope so.
Thanks to Maureen SharphousI wonder if one day I’ll meet Maureen? I hope so.
Thanks to Maureen Sharphouse and Unhackable Press for my Audible Audiobook in exchange for an honest and voluntary review.
5 stars. I’d give it more if I could. Unhackable Soul is unforgetteble, just like Maureen herself.
I was really excited when Maureen Sharphouse sent me an Audible audiobook of her memoir, Unhackable Soul. I think the title is very apt, as Maureen is unhackable in my opinion.
In her memoir, she discusses how she got her diagnoses of MS and then Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. The importance of family support is present throughout the book, and the fact Maureen narrates it makes Unhackable Soul even more powerful.
Maureem has experienced dark moments, lonliness, uncertainty and more. I, too have felt, and sometimes still feel these things.
I identified with her in these moments although I have Cerebral Palsy and Hydrocephalus and not the same conditions as she does. Because often living with disabilities is a constant uphill fight, yet that fight is also very personal.
Maureen is a wonderful person and someone I am proud to know, even if it’s through phonecalls and emails. She’s someone who make
me feel immediately at ease, and her naturally soothing voice is perfect for this audiobook. The pacing is unhurried but with great attention to detail, and I can tell that awareness of her conditions is important to Maureen, as are family, friends and the times she is in places that are special to her.
Unhackable Soul has so many life lessons, and listening to it is like having Maureen in the room with you. It’s like a friendly chat from a caring and empathic friend.
I wonder if one day I’ll meet Maureen? I hope so.
Thanks to Maureen SharphousI wonder if one day I’ll meet Maureen? I hope so.
Thanks to Maureen Sharphouse and Unhackable Press for my Audible Audiobook in exchange for an honest and voluntary review.
5 stars. I’d give it more if I could. Unhackable Soul is unforgetteble, just like Maureen herself.
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