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Summary: Moving in and moving on
Review: A friend of mine was listening to Focus on the Family when Susan Miller was a guest on the program. My friend ordered the tape of the broadcast and sent it to me. (You can also download it off their web page for free).After hearing Ms. Miller tell about her newcomers ministry, I went to the library and checked out her book. It was very good, albeit sometimes a little cheesy. It's not just about the move itself, but loss/grief of the move and your identity, keeping your old friends, making new friends, keeping your marriage and family in tact, and trusting God all the way as you move forward to see what He has for you. I plan to buy a copy for myself.
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Summary: Excellent resource for Christian relocating women
Review: A kind person gave this book to me as a moving gift. I did not have time to read it until I was in my new home for about a month. Feeling really blue, I picked it up one night after I got the kids to bed. I could not believe that my feelings were ok! There are many women who had relocated many more times than me who explain and acknowledge their feelings in this book. There are wonderful tips to help you get started in your new town. For me, that was just what I needed to help me through this move. There are Bible passages and quotes in it that you can choose to use or not. They are just a bonus to the personal insights written in the book. I highly recommend the book for relocating women who are trying to balance their roles and lives.
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Summary: Excellent tool for helping with the blues after moving.
Review: As a wife who had to pick up and move numerous times Susan knows the pain of saying good bye and relocating to a new unfamiliar area. This book truly helped me as a military wife get through the grieving period of leaving special friends behind and coping and getting on with life in my new surroundings. I have given several copies away to people new to the area and lonely for what they left behind. Done in a Christian perspective and filled with wisdom from the Bible.
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Summary: Simply a wonderful book!
Review: My husband purchased this book for me because I was having trouble accepting an upcoming move. At first I was hesitant because, after moving so many times, what else was there for me to learn? I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised. It is a very easy read, and the author makes you feel as if she's speaking directly to you, understanding your fears and frustrations. This book can be especially helpful for someone facing their first move. And also be advised, this book is based on the Christian faith and relying on it to help you through your move. For me, it was a definite plus.
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Summary: Helpful
Review: The editing of this book is a little choppy, but still a quick read. Susan Miller addresses the roller coaster of emotions involved in any move. She not only identifies the struggles that many women encounter, but probes the heart to examine the root of these struggles. While I could have done without the exhaustive lists throughout the book, the content was truly eye opening and helped to guide me out of my moving funk.
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Summary: TOO CHURCHY for me!!!
Review: This book was given to me by a friend who is VERY religious. I am NOT. I was dissapointed with it, in that the PRIMARY solution for almost ANY problem, seemed to be to "turn your life over to God, pray, go to church, know that you are NOT alone, because God is always your friend and always with you". The MAIN idea seemed to be, that if, as soon as possible after relocating, you would simply find a good church and became actively involved in it, ALL your problems of lack of friends etc. would be solved. There were a very FEW other decent suggestions, but not enough. I also had a problem with that I felt that the book seemed to put a lot of blame on the husband for having "done" this to his wife and children rather than seeing him, as being often as much a victim of a job situation as the rest of the family. My husband spent YEARS trying to find a job in our home town before giving up and going out of state for work, and he has suffered physically and emotionally every BIT as much as any woman who had to relocate. I am looking for some books with more of what I consider to be SOLID solutions for EVERYONE in the family. I did not feel that this book offered that. It seemed to me to come across as having the message that chrisitian woman have to ALL be there for each other to help each other with relocating, because their husbands, who did this to them, aren't going to be there for them. That is not a message that I saw as realistic or real.
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