Live Your Happy ― Get Out of Your Own Way and Find the Love Within

In its brevity and simplicity, Live Your Happy harkens back to the early, mega-bestselling book Love Is Letting Go of Fear by Jerry Jampolsky. Putting aside the more complex metaphysical aspects of A Course in Miracles, Rev. Maria Felipe focuses on helping readers learn to recognize what she calls "the cuckoo voice of the ego" and then get out of their own way to discover their own natural resources of happiness within.

In seven concise chapters, Maria introduces readers to fundamental practices of self-awareness, forgiveness, emotional self-reliance, fearlessness, and inner discipline. Along the way, she illustrates her messages with revealing personal stories and some teaching episodes from the lives of her spiritual coaching clientele. There is also a wealth of simple but challenging exercises presented in every chapter. Throughout the book, her warm and funny persona shines through in the plain-spoken prose, giving readers the strong and reassuring presence of Maria herself.

Live Your Happy is not intended as an explanatory guide to A Course in Miracles, nor an encyclopedic collection of self-help techniques. For most readers, the gift of this short, easy-to-read book will be that it provides a passport to the world of the course, and helps them understand how these profound teachings can help them find satisfaction and joy in daily life. The author’s empathy, sense of humor, and powerful insight will shine through on every page, providing what Maria herself would call "a kick in the butt" to change old ways of thinking, feeling, and relating so that readers may quickly learn to "live their HAPPY!"

Reverend Maria Felipe is a star in the making. After a successful career in acting and television hosting, Maria turned inward to pursue a path of personal healing, and eventually became a minister sharing the lessons she has learned. A Cuban-American born in Miami, Maria stands at 5’9" tall with a towering personality to match. Her charisma has captivated thousands of viewers across the United States and beyond, as her pursuit of an acting career resulted in dozens of appearances in national commercials, hosting successful TV shows (including World Wrestling Federation shows with live audiences of 20,000), and traveling the world as a model. After success in that field she felt called inward, and studied to become a Reverend with Pathways of Light, an accredited religious school inspired by A Course in Miracles.

Maria is a dynamic speaker in both Spanish and English.?She leads services in English and Spanish at Unity Church in Burbank, where she created the church’s first regular Spanish service. Her talks now draw both Spanish and English speakers from all over Southern California. She also teaches study groups and workshops, and has created her own channel on You Tube including episodes of Coconut TV, a show designed to share and expand the message of love by interviewing other spiritual leaders.

Maria can be heard regularly on Unity Radio and Awakening Together Radio. She has appeared as a motivational speaker on television talk shows and news programs for Univision, Telemundo, and CNN. She has also spoken alongside prominent teachers David Hoffmeister and Gary Renard throughout California, Mexico, and Greece.