Neale Donald Walsch
Most people, at some point in their lives, have talked to God. Few, however, go out on a limb and say that God has talked to them. Since his first book, Conversations With God (Putnam, 1996), Neale Donald Walsch has made it his mission to update our understanding of God and our relationship to Him (or Her--Walsch uses both pronouns interchangeably). No small feat, to be sure. But take one look at the steady stream of books, from Conversations With God Books 1, 2, and 3 to his latest, Happier Than God, and you see that Walsch is a man on a mission.
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          Julia Cameron
Most diets focus on what we’re consuming. Whether we’re counting points or counting carbs, the focus is on what’s going in. Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, likes to ask other questions. Not just what’s going in, but what’s going on? Not just what are we eating, but what’s eating us? Her holistic approach digs deep to the taproot of overeating.
Her first prescription is morning pages, three handwritten pages of “brain drain” first thing every morning, which gives plenty of time to answer those gnawing questions. What exactly is going on?
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