Mary Shores is the author of Conscious Communications: A Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. Before her success as an author, speaker and entrepreneur, Mary shares her background starting when she was living on her own since she was 16, how in 1992 her daughter was born with brain damage and lived only 1 and 1/2 years, and how later she also suffered from a divorce. Regardless, Mary grew her company to a multi-million dollar business, and here shares her strategies on living a life in alignment and her take on the difference between positive psychology and affirmations.