Light The Flame

by | Oct 27, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “Light the Flame” is a book of different prayers. I actually enjoyed reading the different prayers that many different cultures say to God. Here are a couple of examples that struck me deeply:   After so many sufferings, diseases, troubles, and pains May...

Angel Detox

by | Oct 22, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

Detoxing isn’t just about going through foods detoxing, it involves your environment which includes food choices, water, cleaning products, and even the people you have in your life. On my healing journey I have learned a lot about detoxing. I am only now beginning to...

The Art Of Purring

by | Oct 20, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

The second book of series by David Michie on the Dalai Lama’s cat just like the first book, I feel in love with Snow lion and all the antics and insights from a cat perspective on what happiness is and what it is not. For being fiction there is a lot of in depth...

Sweet and Savory

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  I love flipping through cookbooks to get new Ideas. “Miraval’s sweet” did just that. I have been curious about all the different types of flours for baking, almond flour, tapioca flour, and coconut flour and in this book you get different ideas in how to use...

The Dalai Lama’s Cat

by | Oct 11, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “The Dalai Lama’s Cat” is a joy to read. A story told from the cat’s perspective about the Dalai Lama and the relationships he encountered while in Tibet. Snow tiger’s character is a riot to me. His ferocious appetite for food and all the things he is learning...

Your Life Calling

by | Oct 4, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  Reinvention is the theme of Jane Pauley’s book “Your Life Calling”. Throughout this delightful book Pauley shares stories of those you have had to reinvent themselves. I was deeply moved and I was reminded that I am in the process of reinvention. I love...

Fatty Patty

by | Oct 2, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  I needed a fun book to read since I have a lot going on in my life right now concerning my health and it seemed like I have been focusing my reading on non-fiction and not fiction at all. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I read a fiction book. Fatty...

Cavewomen Don’t Get Fat

by | Sep 30, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  Esther Blum’s book “Cavewomen Don’t Get Fat” explains the Paleo eating plan and what it all entails along with scientific facts. I have been reading about and hearing about the Paleo eating plan for a while and I have been curious to if it would help me with my...

Pulse

by | Sep 27, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

I love beans. I never heard it called Pulse before, but I am up to trying the interesting and new recipes that Chandler has in her cookbook. I love that she shares ideas and different ways from many different cultures, such as Indian, African, and Mediterranean. Each...

Life In Transition

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

“Life in Transition” offers the reader a chance to dive deeper into their soul.  To dig, to prod, to ruminate on how they want their lives to be. The journal exercises and the spiritual exercises open up the heart to a new perspective, a new way of healing the pain of...

An Unimaginable Act

by | Sep 22, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

I wanted to read “An Unimaginable Act”. This book was a challenge for me to read, not because the writing was bad or that I thought Erin was full of lies, but because it resonated with the hurt little girl inside of me that was sexually abused when I was young. Though...

Life Reconnected

by | Sep 20, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “Life Reconnected” is a book about finding one’s self after suffering a loss. I know that after friend/partner in life passed away in 2004 and then I started getting sick in 2008 loss was inevitable. I lived in denial and found anyway to mask and make the pain...

The Path

by | Sep 19, 2013 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey, Weight

I have been reading my daily devotional “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young and this particular phrase she writes hit me hard. “Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I know what I am doing. If you follow Me wholeheartedly, you will discover...

Becoming Myself

by | Sep 17, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

I came across the book “Becoming Myself” by Stasi Eldredge last week while participating in the Invisible Illness Week by Rest Ministries. Of course, I downloaded the free copy and I read it while I have been sitting with my foot up healing from the gout that is...

Breaking Out!

by | Sep 14, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “Break Out” was my first Joel Osteen read. I was deeply disappointed. Reading through “Break Out” I felt like he was repeating himself over and over again and it was becoming redundant and boring. Many of the repeats could have been just written in the first...

Assertiveness

by | Sep 5, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  While reading “Assertiveness For Earth Angels” by Doreen Virtue I kept thinking to myself I needed this book 9 years ago. Knowing the red flags that creep up when meeting others would have helped me to say no more often and think of myself. I have always been...

Sick and Tired

by | Sep 5, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  Invisible Illness week starts next Monday the 9th and they showed case this book and so I downloaded it. It only took me 4 days to read this spectacular book. I love reading Rae hopes and encouragement from her journey. I love the fact that she admits to having...

Food Triggers

by | Sep 4, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  Many books on living a healthy life have been finding their way to me. Before “Dr. A’s Habits of Health” was loaned to me by my fabulous neighbor. I found “Food Triggers” by Rhona Epstein on the Netgallery website that I belong to. I truly enjoyed reading...

The Serenity Solution

by | Aug 31, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

    I started studying psychology in college, but since my illness required me to go into surgery every month it seemed I was not able to maintain school and my studies, so I had to quit. I love finding books such as “The Serenity Solution” that takes my...

Second Firsts

by | Aug 26, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “Second Firsts” is a book about the grieving process and how to start over again after a loss. I wish I had this book when Rick died in 2004 and when my dad died in 2005. Two loses of men who were deeply important to me. I made some huge mistakes and I see that...

Joy

by | Aug 13, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  “I am the door; anyone who enters in through me will be saved will live. He will come in and he will go out freely and will find pasture. The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in...

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