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  • Diana, Herself

  • An Allegory of Awakening
  • By: Martha Beck
  • Narrated by: Martha Beck
  • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Diana, Herself

By: Martha Beck
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Maybe, once or twice in your life, you’ve experienced a surge of destiny so strong it made you believe in miracles.

Such bolts from the blue seem to hit when weariness or ill fortune have plowed through the ground of reason, breaking it up so magic can take root. What follows is so perfect that to call it accidental defies belief. Diana Archer is an absolutely—mathematically!—average woman, living an unremarkable life, when destiny reaches her. Without quite knowing how or why, she finds herself leaving everything familiar and moving into a world where miracles are commonplace, where her supposed flaws become her salvation, and where each person’s story is everyone’s.

In this exuberant allegory, best-selling memoir and self-help author Martha Beck takes listeners into the wild parts of the world and the human psyche. The story of Diana, Herself helps every listener chart a course for awakening to greater joy, adventure, and purpose.

It feels almost magical to Diana Archer—out-of-work store clerk, former foster child, and bearer of multiple psychological diagnoses—when she’s pulled into the orbit of world-famous life coach and reality TV star Roy Richards. Together, Diana and Roy embark on the latest in his series of “conquests”, surviving a month in California’s trackless Sierras Oscuras National Forest.

It’s in the forest that their quest devolves into disaster—and the real magic begins. Lost, alone, and dying, Diana is taken under the trotter of a benevolent spirit animal (or is it a projection of her perennially troubled mind?) who promises to take her home. But ”home“ proves to be a place much more mysterious than Los Angeles. Awakening is the goal, Diana learns, and bewilderment is the method.

As the first volume of the three-part Bewilderment Chronicles proceeds, Diana will undergo a transformation that will change her irrevocably and just possibly save the world. Let the enchantment begin.

©2016 Martha Beck (P)2023 Martha Beck

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One of the best listening experiences

I so thoroughly enjoyed listening to this story. Not only for the story, but also how Martha told it. There is something special about hearing the books author bring it to life. As for the story itself, I found it magical, inspiring, and simply enjoyable. Thank you Martha :)

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This story needs a TRIGGER WARNING - VIOLENCE

I love Martha Beck's writing and her life coaching but I found this story extremely disturbing. I believe that it should have a TRIGGER WARNING to state that it contains depictions of the worst sort of violence against women; and it depicts suicide. Someone I know recently ended their life in the same way that is depicted in this story so this part of the story really upset me; and I found the presentations of extreme violence towards Diana by an intimate partner really, really upsetting. Martha's performance of the story is excellent as she is a great narrator but given all her experience in understanding the human psyche, I have been really upset by the fact that she fails to warn listeners/readers about the explicitly violent content of this book. I feel distressed to say it, but I think it is a breach of her duty of care to her listeners/readers. And I struggle understand why Audible and Amazon haven't insisted on there being a TRIGGER WARNING on this book. I now feel really disturbed by the content I've been lured into taking into my brain because of Martha's failure to warn me about the content. I am also shocked that so few people have been upset by the violence. And I'm saddened by the fact that I'm writing a negative review about one of my favourite authors. Overall, if you are disturbed by graphic depictions of violence, do not read or listen to this book.

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