This is the inspiring memoir of a woman raised within the cultural confines of a Midwestern Catholic upbringing in the 1940s and '50s, and her life's journey as her consciousness awakens. Her path takes her through the expectations of the church, a painful marriage with an undiagnosed bipolar husband, and her food addiction. Desperately looking for guidance and answers to her innermost questions, she encounters a series of "gurus"-bringing her unexpected but valuable lessons that she integrates along the way. And at the age of sixty-three, she begins to reinvent herself-and a beautiful,...