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Surrendering to Yourself : You Are Your Own Soul Mate
Surrendering to Yourself You Are Your Own Soul Mate Author:Iris Krasnow Who am I? What do I want to do with the rest of my life? In Surrendering to Yourself, Iris Krasnow takes readers on the ultimate journey into full and loving self-knowledge. In a powerful blend of personal narrative and interviews, Krasnow shows us how to listen to our gut instincts, resurrect childhood dreams, and plug into the passion of our s... more »ouls. In these uncertain times, Krasnow urges to surrender to our true selves now, and not to put off becoming the person we were meant to be all along. You will meet a grandmother who revives a girlhood fantasy and starts a professional modeling career in her seventies; a public relations executive who has been HIV positive for seventeen years; a twenty-seven-year-old wanderer who travels to New Zealand to "find herself" only to discover that the happiness she was looking for is inside her, not in an external place; and an eighty-one-year-old legend, once the most influential newspaper editor of his time, who reflects on the climb down into the last lap of his life. Krasnow prepares us for confronting the aloneness we will all have to face throughout the aging process: when our children leave home, when parents grow ill and die, when a career suddenly ends, as we face our own mortality. On every page, her message is consistent: To sustain a life of whole ness and joy we need strength and power from within. Surrendering to Yourself teaches us how to finally embrace exactly who we are, and stop shaping our selves according to the expectations of others. As with her other books, Surrendering to Yourself promises to cause a stir among Krasnow's fellow baby boomers who are turning gray. looking hard at their lives, and asking themselves: What's next?« less