Brandy W.

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

Affirmations are a proven and tested method of self-improvement due to their ability to rewire your brain. Similar to exercise, they can raise the level of feel-good hormones and push your brain into forming brand-new clusters of positive thought. As far as the sequence of thought, speech, and action is concerned, the affirmations play a crucial role through breaking the patterns of negative thoughts, negative speech, and, ultimately, negative actions.