Tragedies can be devastating to one's self esteem OR tragedies can point toward rainbows to new opportunities. Result: You build self esteem instead of lose self esteem. This book is about how to truly turn lemons into lemonade; for life is more often about the plans that fall through than it is about the plans that happen.

Yes, when your plans work out, you feel good about yourself, but can you feel truly good about yourself when life seems to be against you? When everything falls apart? When you lose your job or career? Or when you lose all your money in the stock market? or when the love of your life leaves you? or when you fail at something important? or when you're in life crisis? Or when you look in the mirror and you're good looks are gone? Or when you're ability to play a certain sport diminishes?

Most of us get our self worth from our good looks, our family structure, our spouse's love and faithfullness, our ability to earn money, our social contacts, our level of education, our accomplishements, and so on. As long as everything is status quo or getting better, you feel good about yourself, but when tragedy strikes, you often feel less about you. This is because you've learned to get your self worth from what you've accomplished and have in terms of relationships, property, money, physical abilities, and physical looks.

End result: Crisis sink us instead of spur us on. And crisis sink us because we are ill equipped to handle disappointment, anger, frustration, guilt, depression, and rejection--we are emotional cripples.

My Dog Got Run Over By a Rainbow shows you how to feel, hurt effectively, experience, and tame the crippling emotions so you may move beyond them and see the rainbows (new opportunities).

When life goes your way, you feel good about yourself and when life seems to fall apart, you can feel disappointed, unhappy, frustrated, angry, upset and so on and still love yourself--true self esteem which opens you to repurpose yourself or discover your purpose in life.

