To Love and Let Go by Rachel Brathen
Rachel beautifully illustrates that loving fiercely and grieving deeply are often two halves of the same whole. Her story will break you down and lift you up. --Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising While on her way to teach a yoga retreat in March 2014, Rachel Brathen collapses at an airport, brought to her knees by excruciating stomach pains. She is rushed to the hospital on the tiny island of Bonaire, and hours later forced to undergo surgery. When she wakes up from anesthesia, her boyfriend is weeping at her bedside. While Rachel was struck down with seemingly mysterious pain, her best friend, Andrea, sustained fatal injuries as a result of a car accident. Rachel and Andrea had a magical friendship. Though they looked nothing alike--one girl tall, blond, and Swedish, the other short, brunette, and Colombian--everyone called them gemelas: twins. Over the three years following Andrea's death, at what might appear from the outside to be the happiest time--with her engagement to the man she loves and a blossoming career that takes her all over the world--Rachel faces a series of trials that have the potential to define her life. Unresolved grief and trauma from her childhood make the weight of her sadness unbearable. At each turn, she is confronted again and again with a choice: Will she lose it all, succumb to grief, and grasp for control that's beyond her reach? Or can she move through the loss and let go? When Rachel and her husband conceive a child, pregnancy becomes a time to heal and an opportunity to be reborn herself. As she recounts this transformative period, Rachel shares her hard-won wisdom about life and death, love and fear, what it means to be a mother and a daughter, and how to become someone who walks through the fire of adversity with the never-ending practice of loving hard and letting go.Rachel Brathen is a world-renowned yoga instructor and the New York Times bestselling author of Yoga Girl. She conducts seminars and leads retreats all over the world. She is the founder of YogaGirl.com, an online yoga, meditation, and healing platform, as well as Island Yoga, the Caribbean's largest yoga studio. Rachel is the founder of two non-profit organizations: Sgt Pepper's Friends, an Aruba-based animal rescue group, and Yoga Girl(R) Foundation, which helps women and children in need. Her popular podcast, From the Heart: Talks with Yoga Girl, and her Instagram account @Yoga_Girl can be found. She was born in Sweden and now lives with her husband and daughter in Aruba.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501163999 |
| ISBN 10 | 150116399X |
| Title | To Love and Let Go |
| Author | Rachel Brathen |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Gallery Books |
| Year published | 2019-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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