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The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle

How I Faced My Fears, Shifted Gears, and Found Healing from Anxiety, Codependency, and Depression

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The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle

By: Leslie Reyes
Narrated by: Brittany Morgan Williams
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Her childhood was scarred by her mother’s schizophrenia. But she still had fuel in the tank.

Leslie Reyes felt like a prisoner of trauma. Shortly after she prevented her mother’s suicide at the age of 10, she began having panic attacks—and ultimately realized that her mom’s mental health diagnoses had distracted her parents from teaching her the tools she needed to survive.

Despite her beloved Filipino uncle’s encouragement to taste the thrill of riding motorcycles, her terror always won out. But at age 50, Leslie finally found the courage to get back in the saddle after hearing a tale shared at his funeral. And stunned by how many liberating life lessons lay within the open road, her years of living with stifling emotional pain gave way to the principle that broken things can invariably be fixed.

In this raw and poignant memoir filled with gorgeous insights, Leslie Reyes bares her highest highs and lowest lows on the long highway of humanity. And by applying the wisdom she gained in learning to ride a motorbike to her lifelong quest to conquer fear, she offers a guiding hand along the hills and valleys of an unpredictable life.

In The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle, you’ll embark on a journey that reveals:

  • The benefits of response over reaction, and how measured behavior bears abundant rewards
  • How to respect your limitations so you can excel at your own pace
  • Why breaking something is only bad if you don’t take the time to understand how to fix it
  • Ways to overcome the tunnel vision of target fixation so you always end up at your destination
  • The power of mindfulness, the impact of enjoying the moment, and much, much more!

The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle is a thoughtful metaphor for carrying you through the ups and downs of the everyday. If you like heartfelt roller coasters, humanistic ideals, and empowering memoirs, then you’ll love Leslie Reyes’s revved-up tale.

Buy The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle to kick-start a brighter tomorrow today!

©2022 Leslie Reyes (P)2022 Leslie Reyes
Personal Development Personal Success Mental Health Health Inspiring Heartfelt

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What could learning to ride a motorcycle and coping with mental illness have in common? I had to get this book and find out. I was gifted an Audible version from the author through Story Origin. I am so glad I got this opportunity. What a magnificent story. The narrator presents it beautifully. 5 stars for her, too.
Ten life lessons that everyone can use. The memoir of a resilient, brave, amazing woman. I loved hearing her story. I can relate to her life lessons.
A quote that caught my attention: "If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." This is not Leslie's quote, but one that she has passed on to us.
You don't need to have a motorcycle or a mental illness to enjoy this book. Just enjoy this ride.

Enjoy this ride.

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I would recommend this book to everyone; especially to those of us who are on the path to live our lives more mindfully.
Very well written; in an easy language; full of fun, yet, serious fashion.
This a wonderful reminder that a "happy life" is not a goal; it's a process of how we should live every day; it all depends on our habits.
Brittany Morgan Williams's narration made Leslie's life even deeper, and her life lessons even clearer.
The only problem I had with this book was jumping from one timeline to another at seemingly random points. Also, a sentence here and there was in a different fashion, for my ears it seemed automated.
An altogether remarkable book. Thank you, Leslie, for sharing your life's story and making it possible to hear it in audio.
I was given this review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

remarkable

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