29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life

 Shirley J.                  Adult Non-Fiction                    Multiple Sclerosis, Alternative Healing.  How Giving to Others Brings Gifts Back to You

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker   226 pages

Cami Walker was a high-power executive working in an ad agency when things began to go a little off-center for her.   The hours were long, the stress off the charts but she loved what she did so she continued her 80 hur + weeks until her nerves became like the strings of a violin being plucked only nt in a beautiful concerto kind of way.  She began to become dependent on alternative ways of staying awake and keeping pace until she couldn't anymore.   She started attending addiction meetings and met her now husband at one.   They have for the most part done well and have stayed sober but two months after their wedding, Cami was in such pain and torment that when she went to the doctor she was diagnosed with Multiple Schlerosis,  which may have been brought on by the constant stress of her job taking its toll on her body.   She learned several other family members are troubled by auto-immune diseases of one kind or another.so with the stress and the hereditary tendencies there are many possible causes for it to hit her.   While suffering with the disease, when modern western medicine wasn't curing it, she went looking for other possible help in alternative medicines and therapies and found more relief but where her most relief came from was not medicine at all but through a friend from  South Africa who practiced ancestral divination.  Through her she learned spiritual lessons that turned the small things in life into major lessons and she learned how to give out of love and not obligation.    Her website is: www.29Gifts.org where she shares what she has learned through gifting and her followers blog their experiences, too.   A good book to aid in looking for the purity in giving without expecting to receive then finding the bounty that comes your way for doing unselfish things for others.   I recommend this to middle schoolers on up.