Inspirational Book Club for Gals and Guys

Hello Gals and Guys!

The author of our last book, What's True About You, Katherine Woodward Thomas, passed away April 27th. We found out as we were finishing up her book, and it magnified how her work felt like a final gift to humanity, her magnum opus, with its beautiful honesty and the level of detail she gave us to do our own investigation. We are so grateful!

As we discussed her material at our last club, we felt as if we were going over the works of a lovely and dedicated friend who held our hands through the difficult parts and looked deeply into our eyes, rooting us on through the exercises as if to say, "Hey, you got this, I believe in you, we're doing this together!"

We held a candle and had a beautiful moment of silence, congratulating Katherine on her deeply lived life full of engagement, contribution, investigation, her own healing, and of course love.

Thank you Katherine! You will always be with us. :)

Here's a summary from the Amazon page of our next book: THE FIFTH AGREEMENT, by Don Miguel Ruiz

"In The Four Agreements, a New York Times best seller for over seven years, don Miguel Ruiz revealed how the process of our education, or “domestication,” can make us forget the wisdom we were born with. Throughout our lives, we make many agreements that go against ourselves and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements help us to break these self-limiting agreements and replace them with agreements that bring us personal freedom, happiness, and love. Now don Miguel Ruiz joins his son don Jose Ruiz to offer a fresh perspective on the Four Agreements, and a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven: the fifth agreement. The Fifth Agreement takes us to a deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self, and returns us to the authenticity we were born with. In this compelling sequel to the book that has changed the lives of millions of people around the world, we are reminded of the greatest gift we can give ourselves: the freedom to be who we really are."

Personally, I have been noticing a trend of "dumming down" with people not thinking for themselves, relying on social media for the thoughts of the day, and giving away their own power, their own mind.

Let's be clear, when we watch someone else having a transformation, that is not our transformation. We get a temporary dopamine hit, then we go right back to ourselves, fighting with loved ones, mad at politics, and waking up to bad chemistry. Let's actually do the work for ourselves, take our power back, and experience true transformation. (Thank you RJ!)

This book is perfect timing. God Speed.

For our next session, we will be discussing the first 70ish pages. (I will post the exact page after I get my book!)

If you have not done all the reading, but would still like to join in to see what we've discovered, you are welcome.