About The Book
Veronica Nash didn't sit down to write a memoir. She sat down to write her life, and somewhere between hospital waiting rooms, hair salon chairs, and Sunday sermons that hit different when you needed them to, she realized she'd already lived a book's worth of material.
BE POSITIVE! is built around a truth Veronica has carried since birth: her actual blood type is B-Positive, and it turned out to be the most accurate description anyone ever gave her. Across fifteen chapters, she walks readers through being picked last at recess as the biggest kid in class, a marriage that taught her what she'd never accept again, a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis at twenty-five, raising a son on the autism spectrum, a breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy, and a 165-pound weight loss journey she documented publicly because she believes what you survive belongs to everyone who needs proof it's survivable.
This isn't a book about avoiding hard things. It's one of the most honest books on resilience available right now, precisely because Veronica refuses to pretend the hard things don't happen. It's also, unapologetically, a self-love book: every chapter circles back to the same core idea that you cannot build a life of genuine joy on a foundation of self-contempt.
The book unfolds in three parts: Who I Am, What I've Been Through, and What I've Learned, and every single chapter ends with a "Closing Thought," because Veronica doesn't let you close a chapter, literally or otherwise, without sitting with it for one more minute.
