In the Meantime - Iyanla Vanzant
"In the meantime" is a figurative place you find yourself when you're in between your past and your future. You want love, opportunities, a new job, but you need to do some inner work before you can be ready to embody your next chapter.
While you wait, or prepare, you "clean your house". You clean the foggy windows, get rid of the stuff you don't need, clean up the dirt on the stairs, and clear out your basement to make space for the new.
This book helped me tremendously in focusing on myself, on healing, and on becoming the person who could receive what I wanted.
For example: I wanted healthier relationships in my life but was still people-pleasing, accepting crumbs, and letting past traumas sabotage me. I had to do a "deep clean" and transform "my house" to be able to welcome the types of relationships I wanted. With a cleaner house, I learned to set boundaries and protect it from people who would otherwise come in and throw garbage everywhere.
It taught me about self-love, clarity, trauma healing, boundaries and self-care.
This is a book you don't understand until you're ready to receive the message and do the work. I read it back in 2013 but didn't understand its value until 2020.
It also taught me that cleaning my house (my mind, soul and body) was my own responsibility; overwhelming but necessary.
Iyanla uses the metaphor of "cleaning your house" to simplify the clinical language of healing.
Condition disclosure:
All books listed on my website are used and thrifted. Some books may have minor rips, writing and highlighting throughout from past readers.
Bundle Pricing:
My bundle pricing reflects the experience I provide, the brand, the insight, the personal stories, the bookmark art, and healing tools included in the bundle.
What's included:
The book
A hand-painted watercolor bookmark
Tea candle
Incense stick
A personal handwritten note
In the Meantime - Iyanla Vanzant - A Self-Care Bundle
All book bundles are shipped from Ottawa, Ontario. Each bundle is packaged with care to protect the book, the handmade items, and the self‑care tools included.
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