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With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number one New York Times best-seller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national best-seller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist), Neal Pollack (author of Stretch: The Making of a Yoga Dude) and many others, Going Om shares a range of observations about this popular practice.
Unlike books on yoga that provide instruction on technique, Going Om is a unique collection of personal narratives from celebrated authors. This anthology of original material values the quality of writing over the authors' flexibility. Ira Sukrungruang shares his heartbreaking struggle as a 375-pound yoga student discovering self-worth on his mat; Gloria Munoz explores the practice of stillness with lyrical elegance in the midst of her busy mind; Neal Pollack's signature sarcasm leads to surprising turns at yoga class with his dad; Elizabeth Kadetsky uses yogic wisdom while coping with her mother's devastating Alzheimer's.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Melissa
- 05-31-16
a couple of good stories, but overall just eh
I think I was hoping for something a little more enlightening or uplifting, but most of these stories had little to do with yoga. A couple were outright annoying in the author's entitlement and self absorption. And a couple were actually enjoyable. Overall I wouldn't recommend the book, there are just too many good books out there to waste time and money on a mediocre one.
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- DeVere Peer
- 12-05-20
Relatable
Every story has something that would make me say something out loud! I wasn’t sure what to expect but I’m very pleased!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- M. Jason Hendley
- 05-16-19
Uplifting and thought provoking real stories
I loved this book. I found most of the stories relatable and all the stories entertaining. They have inspired me to go even deeper into my own yoga practice. Thank you for such a remarkable collection.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- claire
- 08-01-17
no real lesson or relevance behind the book
Would you try another book from Melissa Carroll (editor) and/or the narrators?
perhaps
Any additional comments?
this is merely a series of short stories and leaves no end feeling of anything, I don't see the overall point to the book , its merely peoples different experiences of yoga and not really anything substantially engaging or enlightening
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Andrzej Zawadzki @trainwithandre
- 08-10-19
ok. but not mind blowing
ok audiobooks. nothing special. I've clocked over 60 titles this year this one wont be in my top 50
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- Amazon Kunde
- 09-04-22
Surprisingly engaging
Really lovely selection of essays and voices. Like Modern Love, but for yoga. Quite consistent quality throughout.
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- yogamaniac
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Stories that ring true
Couldn’t stop listening. Relating to many of the stories through my own different and many seasons of life this was an endearing book that took me to the core of who I am in my yoga practice. Gratefully received and enjoyed.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over 60, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she keeps her listener fully engaged. Among the pieces she has included here are an essay on the gratitude she feels for her weakening bones; observations on finding herself both an orphan and a matriarch following the death of her mother; musings on her tendency to regret the past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Kill me now
- By Brustar on 03-21-21
By: Susan Moon
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Zen Confidential
- Confessions of a Wayward Monk
- By: Shozan Jack Haubner, Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Shozan Jack Haubner
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didn’t really start out to be one. Raised in a conservative Catholic family, Shozan went on to study philosophy (becoming de-Catholicized in the process) and to pursue a career as a screenwriter and stand-up comic in the clubs of L.A. How he went from life in the fast lane to life on the stationary meditation cushion is the subject of this laugh-out-loud funny account of his experiences.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Zen: Just Compare Everything to Excrement
- By Sudi on 10-27-15
By: Shozan Jack Haubner, and others
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May I Be Happy
- A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind
- By: Cyndi Lee
- Narrated by: Cyndi Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
"How can I help others grow and transform if I haven’t done it myself...?" Cyndi Lee asks in the opening pages of her memoir, May I Be Happy, where she makes a surprising revelation. In spite of her success in physically demanding professions - dancer, choreographer, and yoga teacher - Lee was caught in a lifelong cycle of repetitive self-judgment about her body, which was infecting her closest relationships - including her relationship with herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book ! Even if you don't do yoga!
- By ASHLEY on 03-18-13
By: Cyndi Lee
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Hell-Bent
- Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
- By: Benjamin Lorr
- Narrated by: Ben Lorr
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 197
Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his life. He was studying Bikram Yoga (or “hot yoga”) when a run-in with a master and competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive subculture—a group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice a day in 110- degree heat was just the beginning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love this book
- By xebian on 02-11-15
By: Benjamin Lorr
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The Book of Help
- A Memoir in Remedies
- By: Megan Griswold
- Narrated by: Megan Griswold
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 250
A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir-in-remedies by a self-described "professional soul-searcher" that details a journey of self-discovery through more than 160 tonics, seminars, regimens, and transformative therapies. With a voice that is at once intimate and hilarious, Megan captures the openness and honesty necessary for people to take a new path in life. Listeners will open the audiobook with curiosity about all the different healing therapies that Megan tries, but leave with a new understanding of themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride has some serious competition!
- By Elisa on 02-15-19
By: Megan Griswold
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Love You Hard
- A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love
- By: Abby Maslin
- Narrated by: Abby Maslin
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story5 out of 5 stars 76
Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered - and they learned to love again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Maslin Family
- By Zack on 07-15-19
By: Abby Maslin
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This Is Getting Old
- Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
- By: Susan Moon
- Narrated by: Susan Moon
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over 60, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she keeps her listener fully engaged. Among the pieces she has included here are an essay on the gratitude she feels for her weakening bones; observations on finding herself both an orphan and a matriarch following the death of her mother; musings on her tendency to regret the past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Kill me now
- By Brustar on 03-21-21
By: Susan Moon
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Zen Confidential
- Confessions of a Wayward Monk
- By: Shozan Jack Haubner, Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Shozan Jack Haubner
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didn’t really start out to be one. Raised in a conservative Catholic family, Shozan went on to study philosophy (becoming de-Catholicized in the process) and to pursue a career as a screenwriter and stand-up comic in the clubs of L.A. How he went from life in the fast lane to life on the stationary meditation cushion is the subject of this laugh-out-loud funny account of his experiences.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Zen: Just Compare Everything to Excrement
- By Sudi on 10-27-15
By: Shozan Jack Haubner, and others
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Devotion
- A Memoir
- By: Dani Shapiro
- Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 245
In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was - a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional family, Shapiro had no personal sense of faith, despite repeated attempts to create a connection to something greater.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- By Sara Gottfried MD on 11-09-15
By: Dani Shapiro
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Nine Perfect Strangers
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16,857
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,088
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Story4 out of 5 stars 15,032
From number one New York Times best-selling author Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies, comes her newest audiobook, Nine Perfect Strangers: Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amid all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these 10 days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next 10 days are going to be.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Everyone Has Already Said It...
- By Nikki Trulen on 01-16-19
By: Liane Moriarty
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This Is How I Save My Life
- From California to India, a True Story of Finding Everything When You Are Willing to Try Anything
- By: Amy B. Scher
- Narrated by: Amy B. Scher
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life - from the top experts in Los Angeles and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago. After exhausting all of her options in the US, she discovered a possible cure - but it was highly experimental, available only in India, and had as much of a probability of killing her as it did of curing her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great comfort
- By Sue on 07-07-18
By: Amy B. Scher
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Tuesdays with Morrie
- 20th Anniversary Edition
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6,847
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,847
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,824
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live
- By AudioAddict on 04-17-16
By: Mitch Albom
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From Sun to Sun
- A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying
- By: Nina Angela McKissock
- Narrated by: Karen Gundersen
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story5 out of 5 stars 34
I got tired. Tired of all the fluffy, just-guessing books about what people regret, want, and will do at the end of their life. I'm a hospice nurse and I want to show the world how love can be messy, not-pretty, complicated, funny, fun and heart-breakingly beautiful. I want the world to know that caring for someone who's dying is challenging and this is where you discover your true self.
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5 out of 5 stars
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magnificent book
- By Jen on 11-02-17
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The Wild Oats Project
- One Woman's Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost
- By: Robin Rinaldi
- Narrated by: Kate Udall
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 203
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Story4 out of 5 stars 186
The project was simple: An attractive, successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was 44, or that she was married to a man she'd been in love with for 18 years. What followed - a year of sex, heartbreak, and unexpected revelation - is the topic of this riveting memoir, The Wild Oats Project.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well, I'm Not Sure
- By Lifeisshort on 03-24-15
By: Robin Rinaldi
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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,633
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,147
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,122
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone. This is the absorbing chronicle of that year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Inner Journey within an External One
- By YoginiZora on 07-20-06
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Aboriginal Secrets of Awakening
- A Journey of Healing and Spirituality with a Remote Australian Tribe
- By: Robbie Holz, Christiann Howard
- Narrated by: Robbie Holz
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
Sharing her journey from bedridden patient to inspired healer, Robbie Holz recounts her recovery from hepatitis C, fibromyalgia, and treatment-induced brain damage, as well as the blossoming of her own healing powers, through her work with her husband, the late healer Gary Holz, and her experiences with a remote tribe in the Outback of Australia. Through her story of healing and discovery, Robbie describes principles from the 60,000-year-old Aboriginal culture that can help create transformation in your life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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paradigm shifting
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-21
By: Robbie Holz, and others
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Broken Open
- How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
- By: Elizabeth Lesser
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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