Books Finding Your Way Home: A Soul Survival Kit
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Rating: - This book is a blessing!
This is one of those books that seems to have just came to me somehow. These are the books that I needed the most. I love this little book. I didn't really know I was lost until I read it. But after I started reading it, I started crying and all of these emotions were coming to the surface. Emotions that had been holding me back and weighing me down my whole life. It's touching, it's helpful, it's inspiring, and it's well-written and personal. I've read a lot of self-help books or books to help you find God, but this book was like none of the other books I've read. It is sweet, to the point, and it hits your emotional trigger points in a gentle manner, but effectively. This book is full of love! And once you read it, you will be thankful for the love that it awakens in your heart. The main things I gained from this book are the ability to forgive myself and the realization that I truly am NOT alone. I realized that I plow through life often scared, uncertain of who I am or what my purpose is, and too often unsure if God is really with me. After I read some of this book, my heart felt free from the heavy burdens that I had carried my whole life. This is a great book!

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Rating: - Looking for answers
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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Rating: - Remember your soul
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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Rating: - If you wade through the confusion she has something to say.
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.