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Living Through the Meantime : Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Begin the Healing Process

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Iyanla Vanzant does not disappoint in this book. She has a very descriptive and engaging way of pulling you along to a point and allowing you the grace to awkwardly express new patterns of behavior. This book is incredible if you are facing a time in your life when you are changing and shifting your patterns and you have moved away from one thing, but have not quite got a grasp on that place you're heading toward. It humanizes the evolution that we all want to go through and gives you honest keys for getting there if you want.

I have been a Starting Over Fan since I stumbled across it during the second season. Iyanla Vanzant is one of the "life coaches" who helps women deal with their pain and problems. In her book, Living Through the Meantime, Iyanla gives readers the necessary tools to dig deep and uncover all the muck and wounds so that they can be their authentic selves and not just a shell of a woman.

This book is very good, it really opens up your thinking and allows you to move on to a more positive person. I cannot thank Iylana enough for righting such a intrespective book.

I just love this woman's deep passion and if you ever hear her speak ... you just get it in the gut how close to the bone her wisdom is! The tone is simple but the actions they inspire are not. It is not easy to be breaking lifelong habits and cleaning the residue of all the years they operated unconsciously in you. But ... it can be done ... and worth it. No one ever won an Olympic God Medal without the agony of hard endurance training over many years. Hence, why the meantime is just as precious as the moment on the podium.

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

This was not my first book by her but this was the first one I didn't care for. I was very disapointed when I open the book. I was under the impression I would be able to work on my inner self. However, this book might work for others but not me. It ask me question that I was not able to answer. ex. Things about my mom. (mom died at early age) alot of the question I couldn't answer due to I don't know most of my family or know my family history. So I became very frustrated with the book an put it down and never looked at it again. I do feel if you have a strong connection or have been around your family enough you will be abe to work through the book. Good luck to other who might try

Ms. Vanzant describes personal accounts of events in her life which she believed to be undesirable. Later she realizes that had she not experienced the undesirable,then she wouldn't have ended up right where she needed to be to have the desirable.
In a loving, inspiring, comforting way the author clearly describes the steps we need to take in order to get comfortable with who we are and where we are in our own personal life journey. She explains these steps in a easy visualization technique.
Reading this book will offer the reader a great opportunity to do a quick life assessment and feel good about it.

I now my title sounds funny but it's true. You will be working a lot of your relationships, writing a lot stuff (get a notebook to do the work), expressing anger, frustration... and finally being able to find safe peaceful grounds within yourself. I recommend for everyone.

best self-help I've read. It is easy to do, and will guide your understanding of your choices

This book was not what I had expected. It is mainly a workbook...not much to read.

I bought this book because I thought it would help me sort out a lot of the issues that I was feeling emotionally and mentally from the things that have happened to me in the past. Iyanla starts off with a generalization of this prophecy. However, when you start this self help workbook, you get lost in the array of questions associated with your feelings, thoughts, and reasoning behind beliefs you've learned from childhood, or events that dramatically changed your way of innocent thinking. It then becomes hard to distinguish what your feeling from what happened. What makes it even more difficult is Iyanla provides suggestive statements that helps describe what it is your feeling and this confuses things more. By the time, I get through a chapter, I'm exhausted from figuring out what's top from bottom, that I really didn't aquire much. However, she offers a lot of love quotes and statements, that offer a quick fix to improve negative attitudes and beliefs. Great for memorizing and repeating through difficult times. Overall, I usually love Iyanla's books and activities, but this one....I really wished I hadn't purchased.