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While this book was a little theocentric and christocentric for me, I liked certain points she made. I'm not really sure that I enjoyed all of, as much of it I had heard before. But then again, having some of these things repeated to me is part of what helps me along my journey. There is no magic answer to changing things in your life except to change them...and I have found that you have to do that consciously and consistently. I have been working on this bit by bit and I have to be okay with that pace due to constraints. The thing that I find frustrating is that all of these kinds of books come from such a place of privilege, white privilege even, but most often it is not acknowledged. (I couldn't finish Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love" because of this.) Niequist's book slides easily into that category. She does talk about self-acceptance in spite of others' opinions, which she gets a lot of apparently, since she is in the public eye as a writer. I can see how this would make it even harder. I read a few reviews at one point while I was listening to this, and many of them lambasted her for not being Christocentric *enough*. Huh...that doesn't seem Christian to me. But then, it is a review.
I don't think I will read anything else by Niequistt, as it isn't a good fit for me, but she is a writer and she did mention how Lake Michigan brought her calm and that she is a water person. I could relate to that strongly.
I don't think I will read anything else by Niequistt, as it isn't a good fit for me, but she is a writer and she did mention how Lake Michigan brought her calm and that she is a water person. I could relate to that strongly.