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Wanting More

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I kept wanting the book to give me more... to tell me how I got off-track, where the track was, and what lay along that track. Joan Anderson has the same questions that many women ask. Her first book inspired many to examine their lives and goals and relationships. Reading this book shows that she's on the same journey as the rest of us and doesn't really have any magical answers. Although she had made progress in discovering herself in A Year By the Sea, in the ten years after that book she falls into another trap. I remember the feeling from my own career; the feeling that being needed by others was all-important. We become so addicted to that feeling that we create elaborate scenarios making ourselves essential to holding it all together. In this book, she starts to question her books and workshops that now trapped her in ever-escalating demands. Taking three weeks on a Scottish island, she tries to find perspective. Ultimately I found the book imperfect, but perhaps that's the message. We are all involved in a journey and it's important to pause now and then to be sure the track for that journey is the right one for us individually.

Second Journey by Joan Anderson	Customer Rating:
Joan Anderson books came into my life at the same stage in her life that this book is based on. It is an exceptional book for all women who have raised their children, their role as homemaker has greatly deminished and are floundering to find their new role. The book has become my bible for the new me!

A Do-0ver

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While I have truly loved all of Joan Anderson's books, this Second Journey is so welcome because of the tendency we all have to "slip back" into old habits after breakthroughs. Every time I realize a personal truth and attempt to own it consciously, the Universe provides tests (obstacles), to see if I can really integrate this truth into my everyday life. It was so refreshing to know that Joan experienced this also and I am so grateful she wrote about it. This book was truly special!

Share this book with all your girlfriends	Customer Rating:
Ms. Anderson validated my feelings as I enter my 50's and this book gave me the courage to face the next half of my life with eager anticipation and eyes wide open. In fact, I found it so encouraging and refreshing that I've since purchased copies and presented them to my girlfriends who share my concerns and worries and who seek fulfillment and meaning in their own lives.

She missed the "thin place" that is Iona

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Having read and enjoyed Joan Anderson's A Year By the Sea, I was very excited to begin this book, and especially so because Iona is a sacred place - the perfect destination for someone seeking a spiritual renewal. Having read over halfway through the book before she arrives on Iona, I was very much disappointed in the last few chapters. My doubts began when she stated that the Argyll is "the island's only hotel". The St. Columba Hotel, right next to the Abbey, was originally a manse for the Abbey, and has been renting rooms to travelers since the mid-1800's. I have stayed there twice out of the three times I visited Iona. It is a larger hotel than the Argyll, where I have also stayed. Her mention of St. Columba and his role in the spread of Christianity was very slight, and her description of her stay on Iona expressed none of the holiness in evidence in the Abbey, the high standing crosses, the Nunnery, or the beauty of the island and the sea. I don't doubt that she found it a peaceful place, but she clearly missed the whole point of a visit to Iona: discovering the "thin place" where the veil separating heaven and earth is very thin.