Morgan L. Meadows
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Bittersweet
- How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrated by: Susan Cain
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection, and transcendence.
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I REALLY wanted to love this book!
- By Leo B. on 05-02-22
- Bittersweet
- How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrated by: Susan Cain
Purposeful and Deliberate
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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The Girls in the Stilt House
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Mustian
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle, so she forms a plan to go north.
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Long winded
- By Marnie on 04-15-21
- The Girls in the Stilt House
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Mustian
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Bittersweet Intrigue
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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The Indigo Girl
- A Novel
- By: Natasha Boyd
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything.
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You must read The Indigo Girl
- By maureen m. mukhlis on 11-12-17
- The Indigo Girl
- A Novel
- By: Natasha Boyd
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
A Moving Story of a Remarkable Woman
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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The Power of Emptiness
- Being, Knowing and Not-Doing
- By: Lujan Matus
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Listen to The Power of Emptiness: Being, Knowing and Not-Doing today.
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The Path Home
- By christopher butler on 05-13-21
- The Power of Emptiness
- Being, Knowing and Not-Doing
- By: Lujan Matus
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
Gems Take Time To Develop
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 Way of Integrity
- Finding the Path to Your True Self
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck, Maria Shriver
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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As Martha Beck says in her book, “Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period.” In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us—people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits—all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole.
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Needs a PDF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- By Belle on 07-25-21
- The Way of Integrity
- Finding the Path to Your True Self
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck, Maria Shriver
The Return Journey
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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You Are the Placebo
- Making Your Mind Matter
- By: Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Narrated by: Adam Boyce
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Is it possible to heal by thought alone - without drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse - or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness.
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Terrible Choice for Audio
- By Amazon Customer on 08-20-20
- You Are the Placebo
- Making Your Mind Matter
- By: Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Narrated by: Adam Boyce
Take Your Time to Assimilate
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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Where the Lost Wander
- A Novel
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at 20. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart.
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Good story, bad reader
- By LoverofClassics on 06-09-20
- Where the Lost Wander
- A Novel
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Corrospondence to 1850s Life Moving Westward
Reviewed: 01-17-21
A particularly moving, detailed story corresponding to my own ancestry of the time. Worth it!
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The 'Whatever Arises, Love That' Course
- Insights and Practices to Open the Heart and Live as Love
- By: Matt Kahn
- Narrated by: Matt Kahn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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There is a loving intelligence at the core of your being that can lead you to the fulfillment of your highest destiny. Four words hold the secret to accessing it: Whatever arises, love that. With his first full-length audio-learning course, Matt Kahn invites you to join him for a 12-part journey that explores how profoundly your life transforms when you surrender to the love of your true divine nature.
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Lifechanger. Love your way back to life.
- By Snow on 07-18-16
- The 'Whatever Arises, Love That' Course
- Insights and Practices to Open the Heart and Live as Love
- By: Matt Kahn
- Narrated by: Matt Kahn
Transformative
Reviewed: 05-13-17
Enjoyed the full text 3 times. Calming. Integrative. Inspiring from the heart outward. Thought changing.
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