Multi Award-Winning Inspirational Book
Dare to Dream With Eyes Wide Open
Your past may explain where you've been.
It doesn't have to decide where you're going.
by Marcia Regina Cook
Awards and Recognition
Dare to Dream With Eyes Wide Open by Marcia Regina Cook has received recognition from the following book awards.
The Prestigious International Hope Book Awards
Winner
International Impact Book Awards
Winner
Booky Awards
Winner, Best Memoir Voice
About the Book
What If Your Next Chapter Begins With You?
Dare to Dream With Eyes Wide Open is for the person who knows something needs to change but may not know where to begin.
Marcia Regina Cook invites readers to look beyond circumstances, disappointment, fear, and the expectations that can quietly define a life.
Rather than promising perfection or an easy path, the book encourages readers to recognize their worth, confront what is holding them back, take responsibility for what they can change, and begin moving toward a more intentional life.
This is about more than dreaming. It is about opening your eyes to what is possible — and having the courage to take the next step.
Inside the Book
What You'll Explore
Courage
Moving forward even when fear is present.
Self-Worth
Recognizing that your value is greater than the roles, labels, mistakes, or circumstances attached to your life.
Responsibility
Understanding the power that comes from taking ownership of what happens next.
Resilience
Learning that adversity can become part of your growth rather than the end of your story.
Self-Love & Forgiveness
Creating room to heal, forgive, and move forward without carrying everything from the past.
Purpose
Turning possibility into intentional action.
Featured Chapter
Chapter 8
Dare to Love
One of the book's most personal themes explores self-love and forgiveness — not as selfishness or weakness, but as part of becoming free enough to move forward.
This chapter invites readers to examine the relationship they hold with themselves — to consider that healing may begin not by changing what happened, but by choosing what they will carry forward.
It is an honest conversation about worthiness, grace, and what becomes possible when you stop using your past as evidence that you don't deserve more.
When you forgive yourself, embrace your worth, and believe in what is possible, you give yourself permission to become who you were always meant to be.
Is This Book for You?
This Book May Be for You If…
You feel stuck and know something needs to change.
You are rebuilding after disappointment or adversity.
You have spent years putting everyone else before yourself.
You struggle to recognize your own worth.
You have dreams you've postponed because of fear or circumstance.
You need encouragement to begin again.
You are ready to take responsibility for your next chapter.
What Readers Are Saying
Reader Reviews
Every message felt grounding, yet uplifting. I couldn't put the book down because of the positivity that grew within me as I read.
Everyone truly enjoyed her keynote and had great things to say. I wish her all the success with her book and upcoming one as well.
I loved this book. If you are looking for something truly inspirational, you can't go wrong here. I read this during a difficult time, and it really picked me up.
Reviews collected from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and live events.
From the Author
Why I Wrote Dare to Dream
I didn't write Dare to Dream With Eyes Wide Open for people who have everything figured out.
I wrote it for the person wondering whether life can still be different.
For the person who has faced disappointment, uncertainty, fear, or moments when hope felt far away.
I want you to know that your circumstances do not have to have the final word.
There is still strength inside you. There are still choices ahead of you. There are still dreams worth pursuing.
You don't need to have the entire journey mapped out.
Sometimes you simply need the courage to take the next step.
— Marcia Regina Cook
The Next Book from Marcia Regina Cook
The journey continues.
Hanging by a Thread
What happens when believing in possibility is tested by the moments that nearly break us?
Discover the upcoming book from Marcia Regina Cook.
