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

Customer Reviews

not what I expected

2008-12-30
This book was not what I had expected. It is mainly a workbook...not much to read.

Confusing Questions Good Philosophies

2008-11-11
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.

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

2008-03-28
This is the perfect follow up for In the Meantime. On my journey to continue the healing process and grow this has been wonderful.

Didn't care for it

2007-10-09
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

Living Through the Meantime

2007-09-03
Anything by this author is great I would highly recommend anyone
To read anything by this author Iyanla Vanzant The more you read
the more enlighted you becomeLiving Through the Meantime : Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Begin the Healing Process

It's a real place

2007-01-22

Are you in the Meantime?

Are you confused, angry, disappointed, frustrated, anxious, apprehensive, sorry for yourself, or generally wiped out? If so, my friend, you are in the meantime.

Are you ready to put the pieces of your life together? Are you ready to begin the process of healing? Are you ready to give and receive love in all of your experiences?

In Living Through the Meantime, bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant will lead you, step-by-step, to a greater understanding of your own past, your motivations, and your desires. Once you have completed this program of meditation, self-care, and self-examination, you will be able to move beyond your meantime experience and into the love that is your true essence.

VanZant is a winner 2007-01-11
Once again Iyanla VanZant gets to the core. Her book continues where "In the Meantime" leaves off. It give very clear and helpful suggestions to coninguing the work of self renewal.

The Mean time is still the present moment ... and should be made the most of 2006-10-13
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

Iylanla Digs Deep 2006-05-23
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.

I just couldn't hack it 2006-05-18
I bought the audio book and started listening on an 18 hour plane trip to India. I only made it through 4 chapters. Maybe the book is easier to take, but the narrative style of the author on the audio book made me feel like I was in grade-school again. On top of that, the premise of the book was too simplistic. Fix yourself, get happy, clean your emotional house... I'm not saying the material won't enlighten anyone, but if you're awake at all, you probaly have heard what she has to say already -- and probably from someone less annoying.