29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
- ISBN13: 9780738213569
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological condition that made it difficult for her to walk, work, or enjoy her life. Seeking a remedy for her depression after being hospitalized, she received an uncommon prescription from an African medicine woman: Give to others for 29 days.
29 Gifts is the insightful story of the author’s life change as she embraces and reflects on the naturally reciprocal process of giving and receiving. Many of Walker’s gifts were simple —a phone call, spare change, a Kleenex. Yet the acts were transformative. By Day 29, not only had Walker’s health and happiness improved, but she had created a worldwide giving movement.
The book also includes personal essays from others whose lives changed for the better by giving, plus pages for the reader to record their own journey. More than a memoir, 29 Gifts offers inspiring lessons on how a simple daily practice of altruism can dramatically alter your outlook on the world.
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
This is an excellent book and easy to read. I bought 4 copies – 3 for gifts and one for myself – everyone was thrilled to receive the book and I’ve received very good feedback from others.
Rating: 4 / 5
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
This is a great book for anyone. I read to my ill mom in spurts. She looks forward to every reading…
Rating: 5 / 5
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
I bought this book for my sister for Christmas. I read the first 10 days and it was just too much.
The idea is one gets over self centeredness by giving a gift 29 days in a row.
Isn’t this the basis of any of the major religions?
This author spins her own story as she is the center of the universe who wants to start this new movement – based on this new age African Americanized witch that sets up this altar for her clients individually, who calls on their ancestors.
The author also plugs for some good sounding charities on different days, but I would be highly suspicious unless they were throughly checked out.
Anyway, the above comments are my gift for today – stay clear of this book.
I’ll pray for the author.
Rating: 1 / 5
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
I really loved this book.
It was inspirational and I’ve already started to give copies to friends and family
as gifts.
I have also started journaling and giving and found that it has increased my
abundance. It has given me a more positive outlook on life.
If you know someone who is depressed or someone who just needs a bit of inspiration,
it is a great book to give.
Rating: 5 / 5
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life tells of the author’s experience when in her thirties with a fiance and an enjoyable job she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Two years later she was depressed, in constant pain, and falling into drug addiction. When a South African medicine woman advised her to stop focusing on her health and give away 29 gifts in 29 days she at first thought the task futile and impossible. Her journey resulted in a giving cycle that didn’t cure her condition, but offered her new life options – and meaningful work that continues to this day. An inspirational read recommended for any general lending library.
Rating: 5 / 5
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life