Expect a Miracle: 7 Spiritual Steps to Finding the Right Relationship

by Kathy Freston

Overview

A practical how-to guide to finding your soulmate from leading meditation coach, Kathy Freston.

In our hectic times, the search for love is often reduced to a joyless exercise, a desperate manhunt, or a cold and insensitive game. As many of us have learned the hard way, these callous approaches can leave us in a rut of negative beliefs, unfulfilled needs, and blame. In trying to be someone we think will be "attractive," we lose sight of who we truly are and how to find the healthy and sustaining relationship that awaits us.

Meditation coach Kathy Freston has been through that vicious cycle herself - and finally broke free. In this insightful and inspiring book she illuminates the path to greater self-awareness - and the real love we all crave. Rooted in Eastern philosophy, A Course in Miracles, and down-to-earth spirituality, Expect a Miracle is dating advice to the search for a great relationship - one that puts the focus back where it belongs: on our own transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312325848
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/14/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 11.04(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

A former actress and Ford model, Kathy Freston is a meditation counselor who conducts popular workshops in New York and Los Angeles. Her CDs offering guided meditation have been featured in W, Self, Fitness, and Mode. She is the author of Expect a Miracle: 7 Spiritual Steps to Finding the Right Relationship. She and her husband divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

Kathy Freston gives sensible, practical advice for advancing spiritually in order to allow love and right relationships into your life. I can't think of anyone who would not benefit from following it.” —Andrew Weil, M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

“Anyone searching for a healthy, loving relationship will find a practical, honest approach in Kathy Freston's Expect a Miracle. Her seven simple steps take us deeper into ourselves, in order to attract what we truly desire.” —John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and The Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution

“This is a wonderful guide to the search for true love. Kathy Freston writes from the depth of her own knowing, as her faith is obviously based on real experience. She has more than survived; she has triumphed. And you get the feeling reading her book that if she can do it, then so can you.” —Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and Everyday Grace

From the Publisher

This is a wonderful guide to the search for true love. Kathy Freston writes from the depth of her own knowing, as her faith is obviously based on real experience. She has more than survived; she has triumphed. And you get the feeling reading her book that if she can do it, then so can you.

Marianne Williamson

After repeatedly lookin' for love in all the wrong places, personal development guru Freston realized that she needed to change herself, not her prospective mate, to find happiness. Along the way, she compiled her mishmash of methods and tools into this loose compendium. Though the good bits are pretty good, it's basically just a 12-step approach fused with New Agey mumbo jumbo. Well-phrased observations ("Miracles are not always earth-shattering, but can, in their quiet and chancelike way, change our lives profoundly") are frequently counteracted by nonsense: "It is the law of spiritual evolution for love to expand itself." There are examples and anecdotes amid the how-to, but somehow this puzzler holds more promise than it delivers. Like Debra Mandel's Healing the Sensitive Heart: How To Stop Getting Hurt, Build Your Inner Strength, and Find the Love You Desire, this is for large public libraries and special collections dealing exclusively with self-help. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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