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Summary: Remember your soul
Review: Finding Your Way Home is the first book I have read by Melody Beattie. Because of her simple writing style, I plan to read the others. I enjoyed the personal anecdotes and the activities to practice at the end of each chapter. Also, the meditations are easy to follow and practice. My favorite one that I now use every morning and evening is creating a healing vortex (p.176) to clear your energy field. It helps me balance and focus my energy for the day and release my daily baggage before I sleep. This book provides many ideas and activities to help you connect and remember your soul.
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Summary: A great guide for learning of self
Review: I have found so much help in this book, I was at a complacent level as events and situations were happening in my life. I fell back into fear,confusion, vuneralable place, and what I was doing at the time did not seem to make an effect or help me out of my stuff. I saw this book as I was going through Melody's list on Amazon.com and read the review and I instantly knew this was the book for me. At this same time one of my daughters was going through a tough time with relationship (husband) and alot of old stuff came back to me from past that had not been taken care of completely,I guess. She sent me a book by Angelyn Miller,The Enabler, and she helped me see where the many loose ends had not been dealt with, because she described much more clearly the antics of my enabling which I had not taken into consideration before. I have been in Alanon for 15yrs. and have worked through a great deal of my pain, fear, etc. I am still in Alanon (very small group) I have always needed more input besides Alanon literature for my growth. I love Finding Your Way Home, I have read the entire book and now going back to work the exercises as you suggested. I realize now I am working on a totally different level of my inner self, with much more understanding of myself and a much closer and meaningful relationship with my God. This is a great book for me, as many of your books have been, you have been there and done that, which allows me to relate to your words and works. Thank You Barbara Jansen
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Summary: Yikes--Don't buy this book.
Review: I loved her other books, but she writes like Polyanna on Prozac with no clear direction of where she's going. Her sing-song style doesn't jibe well and the rambling, bumbling narrative is disconcerting and unsettling. She should stop trying so hard to control her prose and just write what she feels, as she has done before and to great success.
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Summary: This was probually the most powerful book of our time!!!
Review: I not only found the book interesting but it made me realize that I have more answer within myself, that were there to guide me through life. I think anyone that has felt lonely, confused or just really stuck in their lives will find devine guidance by reading this not just another self-help book.
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Summary: Encourages Self Reliance w/in a Spiritual framework
Review: I've read many of Ms. Beattie's books before. Her candor is her greatest strength. In this book, she explores being human and believing in God. It is a very refreshing viewpoint. There is no psycho-babble. Some of it is a bit new-agey but overall, it is very practical. It touched on many issues I still deal with even though I've been out of a abusive & alcoholic family for 11 years. The work she recommends and the affirmations make me feel like I can take care of myself w/o therapy or self-help books. I realized I am not alone in my struggles. Ms. Beattie's forthrightness and conversational style lend to the intimacy of the book. When she shares her difficult moments and her associated comments, it is comforting to realize that our own experiences and related emotions are more normal that society would have have us believe. I especially enjoy her "walk with God" approach. It is that mindfulness that has inspired me the most.
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Summary: I Know Where My Home Is
Review: Melody suggests reading the book through and then going back and reading it again to complete the activities. Well, that's how I started, but I connected so much with her introductory descriptions of how people have a sense of not belonging that I knew this book was written for me, for this moment of my life. It took me three weeks to read the book the first time. I read "Finding the Right Path" five mornings in a row. NOW I'm ready to go through this book again. "Finding Your Way Home" is exactly what the cover promises: a soul survival kit - tools for discovering your emotional and spiritual power. Melody's words and activities have helped me find an awareness and excitement about staying in the present.
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Summary: I Know Where My Home Is
Review: Melody suggests reading the book through and then going back and reading it again to complete the activities. Well, that's how I started, but I connected so much with her introductory descriptions of how people have a sense of not belonging that I knew this book was written for me, for this moment of my life. It took me three weeks to read the book the first time. I read "Finding the Right Path" five mornings in a row. NOW I'm ready to go through this book again. "Finding Your Way Home" is exactly what the cover promises: a soul survival kit - tools for discovering your emotional and spiritual power. Melody's words and activities have helped me find an awareness and excitement about staying in the present.
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Summary: Very insightful and very well-written.
Review: This book has changed my life to a great extent. It's the first spritual book that I have read and it's definitely put me in the right direction. It has given me a sense of inner wisdom and peace that I have never felt before; it's helped me deal very well with my emotions and my it's taught me how to let go and just have faith. I have dealt with certain situations in my life, that I earlier thought I would not be able to cope with, and it's been so easy! I am really glad that I read this book and I have recommended it all my close friends and would recommend it to anybody.
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Summary: If you wade through the confusion she has something to say.
Review: This book is for people who are not in touch with or rightly connected to their feelings. It is for those that have concentrated on trying to avoid feelings even within the context of therapy. I identify with her make-up as an ex-addict and laugh with her in the description of her awakening to emotions when she says "It was an awkward process, and I spent as much time reacting to the idea that I was having a feeling as I did actually feeling the energy of the feeling and letting it go". She also speaks to those who find they struggled up the mountain to find the guru and found the Wizard instead. This is not a book to look for spiritual guidance, although she makes spiritual references. The problem is that it combines too many pieces of religions and new-age doctrines that she has picked up over the years to form her own trail of hodge-podge. Her mix of advice contradicts itself and hops among a confusing array of different therapies and beliefs. It is confusing at best, annoying at worse. The book IS about the soul: It is about Beattie finding her way home to herself and offers a wide range of suggestions on how to do it and what it looks like. I do recommend the book for those who are secure in their beliefs, but still find they are not entirely attuned to their feelings. I personally see how her faith in God has been the main support in her journey, although that does not come through clearly. However, she is able to give personal examples of what it looks like and feels like to discover this aspect of oneself, real feelings, and have the courage to face it honestly. I would buy it again.
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Summary: Looking for answers
Review: This book is the most wonderful book to guide and direct you into spiritual growth. I have ordered it for friends and would highly recommend it to anyone looking to grow. Step by step the book leads you (I've read it twice)
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