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Morgan L. Meadows

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Purposeful and Deliberate

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Reviewed: 10-10-22

I listened to Susan Cain's reading of Bittersweet twice through in
two weeks' time. I have no doubt I will return to this book annually, just as I do Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist, and the magnificently conceived Zell, by Donna Jo Napoli.
My life is an ever flowing river of the bittersweet. And now I have the lovely and meaningful research that Susan has integrated here for helping us navigate the inner terrain of the dark and holy.
This is a profoundly relatable approach to honoring our griefs and longings. This is a rare gift of truly meaningful prose. Read deliberately and pause often. Allow yourself to feel and embrace what is real in your life. Nothing can prepare you for such a transformation but you can be forwarned in every good way possible. Merci` dear Susan. Merci`

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Bittersweet Intrigue

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Reviewed: 09-05-22

This was a welcome read. I was surprised by the intricacies of the story, which lent it a realistic and hauntingly good quality. Kudos for a well told and conceived first novel by this author. Get ready to feel the Mississippi back woods and swampland and bootleg culture of the 1920s South.

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A Moving Story of a Remarkable Woman

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Reviewed: 08-31-22

I listened to this story while driving a uhaul truck from San Juan County, Washington to Sonoma County, CA. Boyd has accomplished a rare treatment of a woman's role in our Nation's history. Based largely on the volumes of letters that Eliza Lucas wrote over most of her life, the story that emerges is as illuminating in its intrigue regarding the slave economics of the South and the production of Indigo dye, as it is of an intelligent. progressive, and almost undefeatable woman. A real love story is part of the narrative. if I had been alive in the 1700s. I would have wanted to be friends with Eliza Lucas her whole life. I highly recommend this read.

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Gems Take Time To Develop

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Reviewed: 01-22-22

This review follows my third listen to this book in a year's time. If you learn well through story then this particular book is a rich exploration of the true power of emptiness. Contrary to the idea of emptying the mind, one learns to live with the focus of conscious presence. And the ever deepening value of an informed intuition nurtured by emotional resonance. I highly recommend this work.

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The Return Journey

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Reviewed: 05-13-21

A sequence of interwoven real stories, as teachers and answers, makes this a pivotal read. Freedom, peace, belonging, joy, curiosity, and love are intrinsic to the way of integrity. No one who aspires to achievement, of any kind, will be disappointed by the terrain of living without lying to oneself. This book is at once a hero's journey and a map for well-being. The destination may not look to be what we imagine but it will bear the light of truth. Honor your own pace and keep breathing. Humanity and the planet depend on it.

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Take Your Time to Assimilate

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Reviewed: 04-05-21

I started this, as an audio version, over a year ago. My daughter recommended the book because I had survived a near-fatal car crash in 2019. Lots of healing to bring about!
I enjoyed the abundant stories of people who transformed themselves, because they covered so many types of illnesses, injuries, and situations. They authentically shoe how the body's regulating systems become become deregulated --- thereby substituting our highest potential with a stuck or repeating pattern of dis-ease.
I listened to the 1st 6 chapters while gardening...over several weeks in 2020. Then life created a relocation in response to a cancer scare, on top of serious injuries that were still healing. I finished the book this week, in just three listening sessions. The audio version does not provide the meditations but the rationale and process behind them. I believe that Dr. Joe has provided a well researched basis for trusting yourself the "become your own placebo." There is nothing to lose and everything to be gained by learning the meditation and developing your own discipline around that. Data alone cannot effect a transformation. Only your surrender to the space of potential, in real time, will do that.

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Corrospondence to 1850s Life Moving Westward

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Reviewed: 01-17-21

A particularly moving, detailed story corresponding to my own ancestry of the time. Worth it!

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Transformative

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Reviewed: 05-13-17

Enjoyed the full text 3 times. Calming. Integrative. Inspiring from the heart outward. Thought changing.

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