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Inspirational author Candi Dugas throws this affirmation out into the open, a challenge to be one’s true self.

Being one’s true self means taking care of the entire being – spirit, soul, and body.

In her book, Bootlicked to Balanced: Healing the Mind, Freeing the Spirit, Candi relates her own experience of soul-searching and finding God as she guides readers daily along a four-week Christian-based meditative journey. The journey is one of discovering and reconciling the self’s essential parts in order to move closer to God.

In Bootlicked to Balanced readers engage in four weeks of daily meditations, all the while walking along the author’s journey toward freedom and be-ing. For the first three weeks, readers are guided to meditate in silence or with music, with attentive breathing, and with movement. For the fourth week, readers may choose, each day, which form of meditation they will practice.

Former student, Audrienne Light told Candi, “Your insight to meditation and your sharing it with me, changed my life! I cannot wait to get your book. I really need to re-focus."

Proximity to God only results in a more peaceful and a more powerful life . . . that can be yours.

Bootlicked to Balanced is Candi’s (Class of 1991) debut published work after writing, directing, and producing plays for churches and schools – including for the University of Florida’s Black History Month Celebration sponsored by the Black Student Union (1988-1991).

Candi has taken her passion for world’s well-being and invested it in candi dugas, llc, established in 2007 to contribute excellence, innovation, and integrity to the world community – especially during this time of ethical and economic recovery. A writer, sage, and planning strategist, Candi thoroughly enjoys partnering with others to achieve results. She works with the world’s most passionate leaders concerned with exceptional results, authentic justice, and holistic growth for those of us who need it the most.