In The Meantime : Finding Yourself and the Love You Want

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Summary: I Found My Self in A Meantime Just By Reading This Book
Review: After reading this book, I realized a few things about myself. I encourage everyone to read it, especially men. Now I just have to worry about getting myself out of this Meantime safely.

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Summary: Are you looking for love? IN THE MEANTIME is for You!
Review: This book is a must read for anyone who is looking for true love. Vanzant provides useful tools and spriritual insight for those who have been looking for love in all the wrong places. She takes the reader step by step on a journey through love's house. While offering tools and techniques to help the reader get her or his "house in order",Vanzant teaches and inspires.

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Summary: INSPIRATIONAL
Review: Iyanla Vanzant has done it again! She has managed to put into words the expressions trapped both in my heart and soul. And in doing so, has allowed me to stop looking for love and acceptance from others. And to start focusing on loving and accepting myself. And then everything else in my life will naturally fall into place. Iyanla Vanzant shows "IN THE MEANTIME..." the tools needed to clean out old patterns of thinking, feeling and acting. By telling the Truth to yourself and others you allow the positive and good things to come forth in your life. I will keep a copy of this book (like her other books & tapes) on my night table at home and on my desk at work, so that I can refer to them whenever I need to be reminded of the Love I have within. I recommend this book to anyone who is "waiting" for that special someone or something to come into their lives to make them happy. That someone that you have been seeking has been there all along, Loving you as you are and waiting for you to look into the mirror.

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Summary: This book could very well have saved my adult life.
Review: It is so rare to stumble upon a book where the thoughts and perceptions are so honest and accurate that you can only read it at short intervals. The pain of the truth results in the healing of one's soul and that is the gift of this book. -Claudia Taschler

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Summary: FABULOUS
Review: THIS IS A MUST READ BOOK FOR ANY PERSON SEEKING LOVE FOR THEMSELVES AS WELL AS OTHERS. THIS BOOK HAS TRULY CHANGE MY WAY OF THINKING AND MY LIFE.

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Summary: It is the best book around about learning to love yourself.
Review: "In the Meantime" helped me to cope with the emotional distress of my divorce. I've read 18 books in the last 8 months since I've been separated. This book really touched my heart and talked to me in ways no other book could. It's for anyone who wants to get more in touch with themselves. It's a spiritual journey that you'll want to revisit again and again when you find yourself feeling lost and alone. I couldn't put the book down! I've turned many friends on to it who have express sincere gratitude for the referral. This is a very personal gift that you can give to anyone who feels disconnected. The writing is like nothing else out there. You feel like the author is your best friend and can really relate to what you're feeling. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: In the Meantime
Review: This book started out good and really made sense and was positive but eventually, it got a little "out there". For instance, when she was giving an example of a couple who had a long-term relationship and one of them wasn't sure about how he felt and wanted to see other people, her advise was that the person who knew for sure about how he/she felt about the relationship should trust the other enough to let him/her do whatever they need to do to find out, as long as they stay together and supposedly, that's building love and trust. To me, it's saying, "I'm a doormat...walk on me." or can we say the word CODEPENDENT tendencies? BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!! And thank goodness, I'm far into my codependent recovery so as to recognize this; therefore, not buying into it. In the end, I just took what I could use from the book and left the rest but there was a lot left.

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Summary: An Opportunity to Heal Ourselves
Review: Reading this book was the best thing I've done for myself in years. As a man reeling from ANOTHER extremely painful breakup, I was desperate for anything to sooth the pain. Having read LOTS of self-help books, I can say with some justification that this is the most spiritual, calming, healing guide to relationships that I've ever encountered. Like a cold compress on a fevered brow, I could always find relief and peace by reading this book, even at 3:00 in the morning.

Recommended to me by a spiritually advanced friend, I found it to be the only thing that calmed me down, stopped my heart from racing, eliminated the panic attacks, and made me feel whole again. It provides a loving, gentle nudge in the direction of individual wholeness, completeness, and understanding of what we've all done wrong in relationships. More importantly, it shows us what we can do to PREVENT these disasters in the future. The key, of course, is self-love. Like a gentle mother guiding her unruly offspring, Ayanla lovingly puts us back on the right path without making us feel stupid, unworthy, or hopelessly inept at love. Her most powerful contribution is the concept that no matter how bad our partner and the relationship, it is ALWAYS ONLY ABOUT US!

This book provides a roadmap to relationship success, if only we make the time for ourselves to uncover our own issues and work to correct them. I've read the book three times in a row, including highlighting, underlining, and dog-earring the pages. This is like a User's Guide to love. Don't get caught without it. Please savor this book. Race through it the first time, if you must, but read it slowly again to really understand what she is trying to teach us. Vanzant should get the Nobel Prize for this one.

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Summary: Great for folks who can't seem to move on
Review: This book is a gem. If you feel like part of your DNA dictates that you have trouble moving on in a failed relationship, friendship or job then this book is for you. It leads by example without sounding like a textbook and without being preachy or too 'out there.' Another great book is, "If the Buddha Dated" I reccomend both.


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Summary: THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! SERIOUSLY!!!
Review: This is the first time I've EVER written a review on AMAZON... that alone should tell you that this book really helped me. I recently had a bad break up with my boyfriend, and was looking for answers to the same old questions... why does it HURT so much each time, what patterns am i repeating?, why am i always so insecure, what can i change about myself and my situation to get different results?...

I read this book in 2 days and it offers amazing wisdom and insight into WHY we behave in certain ways when in a relationship. The truth is going to hurt, but it is for your own good. This book really makes you LOVE yourself more and helped me personally to get over the break up (still a healing process) and made me more AWARE and WISE so that I will be ready in my next relationship. I'm not saying that the next break up will be easy or the next relationship will be perfect...in fact I know it will not, but armed with the tenets of this book, I am no longer scared about the mistakes and patterns we continue to make in comitted relationships and am looking forward to the bright futute.

If there is any self help book on love and relationships you are going to read, PLEASE READ THIS ONE. IT is soo worth it and if I have helped just one other person with a bad break up or a relationship concern, then my good deed is done :) CHEERS.