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Book Reviews

Willa McLean is not only a professional writer, she’s also Jennifer’s mother.

Her work has appeared in several national and local newspapers as well as a national magazine. MasterWorks Healing Member Site is privileged to offer Willa’s reviews on new and classic books that most resonate with this community.


Review: John Assaraf – The Answer

Throughout the book, John and Murray share their personal stories and areas of expertise. John operates very well from research and intuition, and leads us through a wonderfully clear summary of neuroscience-breakthroughs and quantum physics-”that our thoughts have a direct, causal impact on our reality.”



Review: Gay Hendricks – The Big Leap

In The Big Leap, there’s a wonderful chapter on Spotting The Upper Limit Problems in Daily Life. One of the most common is Worry. Hendricks claims that we can always bring ourselves down by manufacturing a stream of worry thoughts.



Review: John Holland’s Power of the Soul

Holland tells a very moving story about working on an Alaskan cruise ship. He writes in such vivid prose that you can feel yourself in that audience, the gently rocking ship, and the excitement when he made contact with Bruce, a young man who had passed so quickly and tragically that he didn’t have time to say good-bye to his parents.



Review: Mike Robbins’ Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken

(Jossey-Bass, $19.95, 238 pages) by Willa McLean Mike Robbins uses a brilliant quote from Oscar Wilde as a title for his book on Authenticity; “Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken“. Robbins doesn’t promise a quick fix. He maintains that “authenticity is a process. It’s something that continues to evolve throughout our entire lives”.



Review: Marci Shimoff’s Happy For No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy From The Inside Out

Marci Shimoff was a #1 New York Times best selling author, (Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul) and an acclaimed teacher in The Secret-but even at that high point in her life she realized that “happiness isn’t about having everything you’ve ever dreamed of”. She set out with spiritual depth, top-notch research and psychological practicality to answer this question: “Can a person actually be happy for no reason?”



Review: Richard Moss’ The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness

How do you explain the inexplicable? In his elegant book, The Mandala of Being, Dr. Moss goes beyond the superficial “feel good” properties of a lot of self-help books- to teach us how to sustain a sense of centeredness and joy, and avoid the emotions that can obstruct our innate potential for “radical aliveness”.



Review: Ariane de Bonvoisin’s The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Making Any Changes Easier

(Harper One, $14.99, 218 pages) By Willa McLean While reading The First 30 Days we meet many fascinating folks who are going through all manner of changes, some very dramatic. Author Ariane de Bonvoisin’s mission is to teach us all to become “change optimists”. Using a very readable nine step approach, she starts each chapter with a principle of change, introduces us to people who…



Review: Guy Finley’s The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power To Never Feel Powerless Again.

Each of the forty-one chapters is designed in a step-by-step presentation starting with a Key Lesson and ending with a short, but powerful, summary intended to help you actualize the new principles portrayed.



Review: Janice Taylor’s All Is Forgiven, Move on

by Willa McLean

What did the mayonnaise say to the fridge? Answer: Close the door, I’m dressing! When that goofy riddle heads a chapter, you know you’re not reading the typical diet book. Author Janice Taylor vehemently and humorously claims that “All Is Forgiven, Move On” is not a diet but a life style leading to Sveltesville.

Sveltesville is part of a whole new vocabulary Janice introduces. She herself entered Sveltesville in 2001 when she permanently removed 50 pounds of excess baggage after a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and a childhood spent with her “aunties” Sara Lee and Betty Crocker.



Review: Sonia Choquette’s The Time Has Come-To Accept Your Intuitive Gifts.

This little book is like a small chocolate box full of spiritual bon bons. It would be the perfect gift to give the friend in need of a psychic jolt.

In The Time Has Come author, Sonia Choquette, shares her expertise as a six-sensory spiritual teacher to discuss the importance of our sixth sense-our intuition. Choquette maintains that we should honor this Divine gift of intuition and access it by “simply turning inward and listening to our hearts.”