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Summary: Too Self-Indulgent and Somber
Review: This is the final book I will read by Iyanla Vanzant. As I wrote recently per her prior books, she encourages women to wait unnecessarily for their good. She and other New Thought teachers misinterpret Joel Goldsmith, trying to make his insights concur with theirs. If you don't want to waste time on arduous self-contemplation queries and exercises, read the book by LYNN GRABHORN, called EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING. Extremely blunt and humorous, Ms. Grabhorn shows why you DON'T need to work on "issues," or figure out "lessons" supposedly learned, or need a job-change, or forgive, or make any improvement before you can manifest your good. After reading Ms. Grabhorn's book, to me it feels like the New Thought's Reign of Tedium is OVER!
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Summary: Until Today......I didn't know there was more to learn
Review: This was one of the many books that I own by Iyanla, and though it isn't as insightful as the others, this book still allows you to learn more...about yourself and others. And the way she lets you know that you may not have known this "Until Today" and if you never use this again just use it "just for today...". I think that the 365 day motivational is just what people need to know that everyone isn't perfect everyday, but they can at least try. If you are looking for a daily motivational that isn't a speech or something telling you that is is easy to change, when you know it isn't, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Healing the mind, body and soul!
Review: This was so moving for me. I am just recently out of a bad relationship, one of many. A friend shared with me a copy of this book before I bought it myself. Iyanla touches on the deepest parts of my heart, and shows me that I am not alone. Coming from a not so good childhood...and thinking as I grew up that men were always going to hurt me in the end, therefore never allowing myself to honestly open up and trust one, I have just been going through the motions of a relationship for years. Never understanding why it is that I just cant seem to find "happiness". And she, very vividly, explains that we all have a past but we can't allow it to ruin our future! And only now in retrospect, with the aid of this book showing me and allowing me to really understand, can I see that I was doing just that. If you are not sure about where to go for help, or unsure of how you can get beyond your "skeletons in the closet", like many of us, than this is definitely for you! She is helping me to find myself all over again from the inside out....Healing the mind, body and soul.
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Summary: Speaks Directly To You
Review: Vanzant's latest book is in a day-to-day devotional format. Having devoured everything else she has written, I didn't hesitate to pick this up. Well, get ready to be smacked hard upside your head every single day.The author seems to have the view of a seer, and every single piece is directly related to what's happening in life at exactly that moment. Each devotion ends with the phrase, "Until today..." and a statement like "you may have been feeling as if you were about to break down. Just for today, call forth the strength, courage, wisdom, insight, power and love of the spirit of life. Ask that you be guided through the next minute, hour or day to a place of peace." (January 31) Each month has a focus - life, love, awareness, acknowledgment, acceptance forgiveness, etc. Each day's reading focuses on internal personal and spiritual growth, self-acceptance, change and producing peace in your life. It is an excellent book for those who have thrown out all the other daily devotional books including those for "Women Who Do Too Much." I expect to wear the pages of this book out over the next years.
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