Audio Review:Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles by Gabrielle Bernstein

How does a New York City publicist and party girl turn into a go to guide for the next generation? In her new book, Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles, Gabrielle Bernstein shares the story of how she transformed her life, offering her spiritual journey as a guidebook for overcoming fear, changing perceptions, and creating a life you're psyched to wake up for. Bernstein has traded self-doubt and addiction for a new kind of high. In 2005 she became a student of A Course in Miracles and since then she has been guided to teach those spiritual principles to the next generation of seekers.

I am a hip new agey kind of woman, and this sounded right up my alley! I had also heard of Gabrielle Bernstein on Melylissa Griffin podcast ad well I went looking on Scribd and guess what they have allllll of Gabrielle Bernstein books as audiobooks on there! I picked Spirit Junkie as the first based on an eeni mini miney moe in my head. #justbeinghonest

What I liked

I loved that she shared her journey with us. In college I was also known as a party girl and while I may or may not have smoked some weed that is as far as I got in the illegal drugs. I have friends who fell down that hole like Gabrielle Bernstein, and I could never understand why or how to help them. I was also dealing with my demons at the time. I was rife with self-doubt, and even though I got down to 140 pounds I still felt fat and let just say that I was a girl bound up in insecurity and to bolster my self-esteem enough to be sociable I downed  a shit ton of alcohol, and I started my cycle of binging then purging that took years of therapy to break.

What I did not like

Confession Time. I was in a sorority in college and i met a lot of woman that ummmm.. Tred to sound super intelligent but instead, they sounded exactly like this book. It annoyed me then and it annoys  the fuck out of me now.

I am not putting down Gabby in any way, but she could have just stayed a life coach and hired a good copywriter and the book would have been a million times better. I do believe that the underlying message, that we let fear control is is valuable. I mean I know people that refuse to lose weight for “fear that a man might do something” so really this is a message that needs to be heard. However, I can see the gals and snorts from my honors classmate (Why yes I was both a Sorority girl AND an honors student!) and the dimming this book as another former party girl trying to make a buck from her journey. Sad but true the people most in need of this book wouldn’t even touch it. I put away my honors thinking and looked at from an also former party girl perspective, and it blew my mind. I just wished that she had stayed with her gifts and instead of writing this she had a copywriter.

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