Peace from Broken Pieces by Iyanla Vanzant
By Leona Romich • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010 •
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Peace from Broken Pieces by Iyanla Vanzant is a personal, spirtual journey within/for her. For those of you that have faithfully read Ms.Vanzant’s books over the years, you should know that she has not published any recent books in approximately five years.
From the very beginning of this book,you will glimpse into the heartache of a mother that has lost a child. A child that was considered her best-friend, confidant and business partner. In reading this book, you will see the rise and the fall of a successful, spiritual woman. A woman that has gone from fortune and fame to losing everything and was about to become homeless. The ONLY thing that got her through all of these trials and tribulations was her FAITH in God.
Peace from Broken Pieces by Iyanla Vanzant is the best nonfiction book I have read this year. Ms. Vanzant shared some of her deepest emotions, heartbreaks and heartaches within her life, especially chronicling the last five years. Along with sharing her emotional journey to healing…Ms.Vanzant shares quotes and teachings in letting go of the hurt and finding peace. This was such an emotional read, that it took me quite awhile to read through it.
As a friend reminded me though…this is not the type of book that you just read through like you are reading a novel, but a book to read slowly and reflect. As the synopsis suggests “Let this powerful book inspire you to put your personal puzzle together, and dare to claim the peace that you truly deserve.”
Highly recommended!
This book was provided by the publisher for review purposes.
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Leona Romich is a Ohio native. Since 2008, she has been a member of APOOO. She is also the founder of Street Lit Clique on shelfari.com and a member of the APOOO Exchange Team and an independent book reviewer. You can find her reviews on amazon.com. She is an avid reader. Reading has always been a passion of hers, a means of escape to another time and place by the characters she reads about. Her favorite street-lit author is Al-Saadiq Banks, author of the BLOCK PARTY series. Her favorite AA author would be Bernice McFadden aka Geneva Holliday. She enjoys a variety of genres.
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Manipulation is the word of the day. I am reading Peace from Pieces about a woman who has spent her entire life it seems deconstructing the people around her. She was severely abused as a young child deconstructed. She learned that she had to manipulate every situation and person in her life because basically she didn’t exist.
Deconstructed. It is a word that came to me in my dreams last night. It is the word I woke up with in my mind. Powerful word deconstruct. To deconstruct a person, pull them apart, starve them, until their bare bones are poking thru their skin, berate them until their flesh is melting.
This woman Iylanla Vanzant’s pattern, it seems to me, is to systematically deconstruct herself and everyone in her life sometimes unknowing sometimes in defense sometimes as a matter of relating to what she considereds her world. Addicted to pain she says. Addicted to the deconstruction.
Addicted to nonexistence * if I don’t exist than you don’t exist either.* The pattern is just repeated the methods may vary but the result is always the same. Deconstruction.