The Twelve Gifts for Healing (Twelve Gifts Series, 3) - Hardcover

Charlene Costanzo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006621128X ISBN 13: 9780066211282

Publisher: HarperResource, 2004

Synopsis

A wonderful and compassionate illustrated gift book that will inspire readers to triumph over adversity of any kind.

The author of The 12 Gifts of Birth has produced another beautifully illustrated book that will uplift and inspire all who turn its pages. Everyone goes through some sort of loss in life, and in The Healing Place, Charlene Costanzo provides words of encouragement that will help readers triumph over adversity of any kind--whether it is cancer, job loss, divorce, or just a bad day. The book will give readers a renewed faith in themselves.

The Healing Place opens with a simple yet powerful story of a troubled woman searching for healing. The book then offers twelve healing aspirations that will reaffirm readers sense of peace and dignity, accompanied by beautiful illustrations and colorized photographs. The Healing Place is certain to become a cherished companion on life′s journey.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlene Gorda Costanzo is an award-winning author, workshop facilitator, wife, mother of two adult daughters, and grandmother of twins. She holds a BA in Philosophy from St. Bonaventure University and an MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.

Originally from New Jersey, she has resided in New York, Texas, Arizona, and Florida. During a one-year book tour to launch The Twelve Gifts of Birth, Charlene and her husband enjoyed living in an RV in forty-eight of the fifty states.

From Publishers Weekly:

Costanzo provides another prettily illustrated self-help book with this slender follow up to 2001's The Twelve Gifts of Birth. Divided into two parts, the book opens with a short illustrated parable describing the journey of a sick young woman and the spiritual guide who helps her find the "healing place" within herself. The book's second half presents readers with 12 mantras, such as "May peace wash over you," that Costanzo used during her own seemingly hopeless battle with cancer. Each mantra is accompanied with a soothing pink and sepia toned photograph. Sweet, heartening and somewhat predictable, Costanza's work reminds one of a children's book or an extended Hallmark card. Nonetheless, the fluffy optimism of this message of self-empowerment may comfort those in need of some gentle encouragement.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperResource
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 006621128X
• ISBN 13: 9780066211282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Alexis Seabrook