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The Second Journey

The Road Back to Yourself

by Joan Anderson
Pam Ward
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Nearly a decade after the debut of her best-selling, life-changing classic A Year by the Sea, Joan is so busy helping other women search for their true selves and taking care of several generations of her family that she doesn’t even realize how out of control her life has become. Ironically, she finds she needs to listen to her own advice more than anyone else does. The Second Journey chronicles Joan's quest to restore her own equilibrium and find herself again. Suffused with her characteristic humor and warmth, this is a book for any woman who wants to know how to awaken her own independent spirit and set herself on a new path. Sharing her musings on love, marriage, family, growing older, aging parents, and spirituality, Joan offers reassurances that the best is yet to come and empowers other women to come of age in the middle of life.

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  • Release date

    April 29, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481551427
      • File size: 145181 KB
      • Duration: 05:02:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This sensitive, introspective memoir continues Joan Anderson's previously chronicled search for a meaningful, authentic life. Overcommitted, coping with an aging parent and far-flung children, in search of integration and wholeness, she journeys to Iona, Scotland, where unexpected coincidences and insights abound, giving this pilgrimage the feel of an archetypal quest. Initially, narrator Pam Ward's tone is strident and didactic, almost annoying. However, as the story unfolds, her tone eases and mirrors the transformation of the main character, who becomes more thoughtful as she attempts to find peace and equilibrium. Ward's performance should find many appreciative listeners, especially among Anderson's devoted readers. This is the kind of production that could be listened to every year, when one needs a reminder to slow down and enjoy the journey. M.H.N. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 31, 2008
      After the publication of her first book of self-transformation (A Year by the Sea
      ) in 1999, Anderson writes of being consumed by a pressing schedule and a web of family cares that have derailed her from her original trajectory of self-truth. While her first journey consisted of separating herself from a previous life that had defined her as compliant and dependent (a wife and mother), her current journey involves taking stock of the progress and strengths gained in the previous 10 years. She attempted to get back on track by discounting “counterfeit journeys” (such as illusory ambition), refusing to be blackmailed by her ailing mother and resisting the urge to join her grown children’s already-charged households over Christmas. Instead, she found sustenance in weekend seminars with other women; a pilgrimage to Monomoy, Cape Cod; and a magical three-week stint to the island of Iona, Scotland. Self-help platitudes abound, as Anderson quotes her mentor Joan Erikson (“The most important thing is to share what you know”), and her similes grow tiresome (she compares herself to a tangled, empty lobster trap). For readers eager for more, though, she does drop hints of marital discord and of leaving her journey unfinished.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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