The Way, Seven Simple Ways to Eliminate Stress and Live Your Life to the Fullest by Catherine MacDonald is a refreshing look at spiritual transformation as told through the fictional tales of three women: Jenny, Lori and Melissa. Jenny is at the end of her rope, running emotionally on empty and has just tried to kill herself. Lori is a fifty-one-year-old alcoholic who has been in one treatment program after another. Lori’s alcoholism has just cost her her job as a housekeeper in a Key West bed and breakfast – hardly the job for which her college education prepared her. Melissa is a soul deeply locked in grief after the death of her daughter a year before. Melissa’s marriage is in serious jeopardy because she and her husband can’t move past blaming each other for their daughter’s death, and move onto the business of comforting each other and building a life without their daughter.
At a moment of crisis each of the women finds herself contacted by Christine Applegate, a representative for Wanda McBroom, a Washoe medicine woman. Christine tells them there is hope for each of them in a teaching known as “The Way”. She promises each of the women that “The Way”, if followed, has the key to their future peace and happiness. Each woman struggles with this concept, but in the end, having nothing to lose, they make the trip to just outside Lake Tahoe where the medicine woman Wanda McBroom lives.
Wanda comes from a long line of medicine women. Many years ago a teaching known as “The Way” was entrusted to Wanda’s medicine woman forebears, along with a prophecy that the time would come when the world would be beset by the “hurry sickness”. This time would come eight generations after the giving of the prophecy. Now, in her time, Wanda sees the fulfillment of this prophecy, precisely as it was foretold. Now with the time finally upon her, the teachings of “The Way” offer a cure to this “hurry sickness”. This makes the teachings sought after by many people. The three women in our story are brought together at Wanda’s home, Whispering Pines, where each of them finds the solace and transformation she needs for her life through the application of the teachings of “The Way”. With, The Way, Seven Simple Ways to Eliminate Stress and Live Your Life to the Fullest Catherine MacDonald reveals a deep insight into the spiritual and psychological pressures of today’s life. She provides simple steps to help an individual experience greater happiness and spiritual fulfillment immediately. Additionally, if these steps are practiced over the course of an individual’s life they will continue to bring peace and fulfillment.
The Way, Seven Simple Ways to Eliminate Stress and Live Your Life to the Fullest by Catherine MacDonald, copyright 2010 by Catherine MacDonald, published by JADA Press, Jacksonville, FL http://www.JadaPress.com ISBN 978-0-9843558-3-9 http://www.amazon.com $12.95
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