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  • To Love and Let Go

  • A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Gratitude from Yoga Girl
  • By: Rachel Brathen
  • Narrated by: Rachel Brathen
  • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (146 ratings)

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To Love and Let Go

By: Rachel Brathen
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Summary

From the New York Times best-selling author of Yoga Girl and 'international force in the world of yoga' (Allure), a moving and inspirational memoir on how to cope with tragedy, adversity and change through yoga.

To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go...it's the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime.

While on her way to a yoga retreat in the Caribbean, Rachel Brathen collapsed in the airport and was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. When she opened her eyes following the surgery, her boyfriend was at her bedside weeping, and she immediately knew something terrible had happened. She soon discovered that at the same time as her collapse, her best friend was killed in a car crash.

Over the next two years, which should have been the happiest time of her life with her engagement and growing career, Rachel experienced trial after trial. From the overwhelming loss of her best friend, to the illness and death of her grandmother and a shocking suicide attempt by her mother, Rachel found herself in a deep depression. When she discovered she was pregnant, Rachel decided to use her pregnancy as a time to heal and an opportunity to be reborn herself.

Now, in this evocative and remarkable memoir, Rachel shares the tools she used to cope with and overcome her depression. She invites you to share in her eye-opening epiphanies and realizations about life and death, love and fear, what it means to be a mother and a daughter, and the restorative power of yoga. Perfect for fans of Gabrielle Bernstein and Glennon Doyle, this unforgettable memoir will move and enlighten you.

©2019 Rachel Brathen (P)2019 Octopus Publishing Group
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Just amazing

So touching. So raw and truthful. So inspiring!I loved it! Thank you.It is my most loved book till now!

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Beautiful

I absolutely adored this book. I laughed, I cried and I felt it all so personally. As soon as I had finished I gifted it to my sister. Brilliant brilliant brilliant.

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Beautiful.

I loved it so much. I have followed Rachel for years and everytime I listen to what she has to say, it resonates within my heart. Thank you.

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Totally immersed from Chapter 1 to the end

Heartbreakingly honest and totally relatable. A wealth of thought and thoughts to ponder over. Full of love and light ... and a sense that Good Things are always coming, coming ... despite the darkness and sadness we may find ourselves walking through. Thank you Rachel x

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Emotional

Loved this. I feel like death is a part of life that we are all raised unprepared for, and yet it is a part of life that we will all encounter time and time again, until our own. This book helps face the sadness, and hold onto the love. An important topic to discuss. Loved Rachel's emotional honesty, and although thoroughly heart breaking and relatable, also enjoyable in a cathartic way ♡

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Amazing moving story

Wow I have just finished this truly moving beautiful book. It has resonated and made me feel and think about things in a different but familiar way. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Thank you Rachel.

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Wow Rachel gives us everything

You can find out how she’s such a fabulous teacher. She has been through so much and remains open and shares. It can help us all so much. Just listening to her melted me so many times. She has so much profound wisdom and practical help to share. Listening to this helped me to stay real and go through what I am feeling and not to try running. Her mother would have died if it hadn’t been for her. What a heavy weight indeed. But oh the love, far too much to calculate. I could listen to Rachel forever.

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Very moving

Very moving, very raw in places, I cried a lot but also smiled a lot too. A very heartfelt and honest listen xx

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I cried and cried

I’m so glad I got the audible version. Listening to Rachel tell her story was so incredibly moving, I’ve followed her since the beginning, but even I didn’t realise she had all this depth and wild experience. I was overwhelmed and cried a lot. There’s a lot of pain but also a lot of light. Everything she shares about her relationship with her mother is so raw, she is really brave and no doubt her story has resonated with so many people, and probably pushed them to invest in their healing. I loved to hear of all the synchronistic moments in her life. I feel these moments and patterns in my own and it’s nice to feel like you’re not crazy for believing wholeheartedly in divine timing. A really amazing book ❤️

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Truly beautiful

I started listening as something that might be interesting, with no expectation and no clue as to the treasure I’d just stumbled across. The first chapter knocked me off my feet and I went on to listen to the entire thing in one day. There are so many things I relate to in this book that it many times felt like I was the one telling the story - I say that knowing that most people who read/listen to this will feel the same. Thank you Rachel for finding the words for so many things we all feel. This book has truly been a gift.

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