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Iyanla Vanzant is a Yoruba priestess, a talk show host, a doctoral candidate, a spiritual life counselor, and the author of the 1994 Blackboard Book of the Year, Acts of Faith, and the best-selling Value in the Valley. She lives in Silver Springs, Maryland.

"Iyanla Vanzant, an empowerment specialist who works with both men and women-to date generally in the African American community-has more than proven that her books can also reach a wider audience. With one title, In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want, on the national charts, and a second, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, right below the top 15, Vanzant and publisher Fireside have demonstrated that hard work pays off. For the two January releases, the author went on a four-month tour that included 50 appearances plus local media in 14 cities. The print figure for In the Meantime is up to 250,000; for One Day it's about 235,000. Fireside has published Vanzant for about five years and its most successful title is Acts of Faith; that 1993 book has more than 700,000 copies. Two other books -- The Value in the Valley and Faith in the Valley -- have a combined paper and cloth figure of about one million."
Profile obtained from Publishers Weekly:
http://www.bookwire.com/PW/Bestsellers.article$8653

Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women
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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Hay House (August 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1401921884
ISBN-13: 978-1401921880

Book Description
The 20th anniversary edition of Iyanla Vanzant’s first published work offers a powerful path to self-empowerment based on the revitalization of one's spiritual and ancestral roots. Written with Vanzant’s signature healing stories, this classic guide to uniting the will with the spirit teaches that only you have the power to make a change for the better. From basic breathing and meditation techniques, setting up a home altar, connecting with ancestors and guardian spirits, to the extraordinary power of forgiveness, Tapping is a perfect companion on the way toward the real you. This edition also contains the author’s new “What I Know Now” commentaries and an original CD. Iyanla’s debut spoken word album In the Meantime: The Music That Tells The Story was a # 1 Billboard Gospel bestseller.

About the Author
Rev. Dr. Iyanla (pronounced E-Yan-La) Vanzant is an internationally recognized inspirational speaker devoted to showing others the way to transform their lives. The founder and director of Inner Visions Spiritual Life Maintenance Network, Iyanla is the author of over twenty books and audio books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, In the Meantime. There are over eight million copies of her books in print. Iyanla has received numerous awards and accolades for the power of her work. Ebony named her as one of the country's most influential African Americans, Vibe magazine praised her as one of "100 Leaders of the New Millennium" and Newsweek included her as one of the "Women of the New Century."

Living from Your Center: Guided Meditations for Creating Balance & Inner Strength (Inner Vision Series)
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Living From Your Center is the first entry in Sounds True's new Inner Vision Series featuring bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant. This guided practice CD serves as a tool for finding balance and inner strength in your life. The listener will learn: how love, faith, forgiveness, and surrender are steps to gaining spiritual power, how to identify your center and access it for strength in any situation, and Iyanla Vanzant's personal guided meditations for healing, clearing, balancing, and more.

Don't Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women
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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Fireside; 1 edition (July 6, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684869837
ISBN-13: 978-0684869834

You are special.
You are precious.
You are It!

Today, Iyanla Vanzant is a bestselling author with her own business and a loving family. But it wasn't so long ago that she was a teenager -- a sixteen-year-old mother and high school dropout on welfare. Iyanla knows that a young woman's journey can be lonely and hard. She remembers how difficult it is to put into words the way you feel, how it feels to want to be loved.

In Don't Give It Away!, Iyanla presents a workbook in which you can write your feelings and express your thoughts about the things that matter to you -- your family, your friends, your body, and your love life. Problems at home and at school are a natural part of every young woman's life, but understanding what to do with how you feel about your problems is the key to growing up. Iyanla Vanzant shows you that the love you seek is the love that you are.

Giving Thanks
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Audio CD
Publisher: Sounds True (March 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591792495

Iyanla Vanzant gently guides you into a state of remembrance itself through meditation and visualization exercises, awakening you to each of the gifts that surround you – but often go unnoticed. She also teaches listeners how to nourish this innate wisdom of appreciation and to sow the benefits of this simple yet transformative action.

In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want
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Paperback: 24 pages
Publisher: Fireside; Pap/Com edition (August 24, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 068487072X

You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how to get there. You know exactly what you want in life, but what you want is nowhere in sight. Perhaps your vision is unclear, your purpose still undefined. On top of it all, your relationships, particularly your romantic relationships, are failing. If these scenarios feel familiar way down in the deepest part of your gut, then you, my dear, are smack dab in the middle of the meantime. The bestselling author of Acts of Faith and The Value in the Valley -- whose books have empowered countless women -- now reaches out to anyone who yearns for love, in a book about relationships that can help them reach new levels of awareness, spiritual growth, and fulfillment.

Your mother, bless her heart, and your father, with all of his good intentions, did not prepare you for the meantime. They did not because they could not. No one can prepare you or help you find what you are looking for. What you need is love, not romance. Love, not more money. Love, not a new car. Love is the only thing that can make the meantime worthwhile. Once you find love, true self-love, and unconditional love for everyone all the time, things will look, feel, and be a lot better. The question is: What do you do in the meantime? We must mop and sweep away the stuff that trips us up, keeps us confused, and makes the meantime miserable. In this book, Iyanla Vanzant tells us how we can do this thorough mental housekeeping. If we do a good job of it, the light will come through. Once that happens, our spirits will shine, bringing in the light of true love and happiness.  - The Publisher

Until Today! : Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind
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Publisher: Fireside; 1st Fireside Ed edition (August 14, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684859971

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"Whatever has been going on in your mind, your life, or your heart can stop — right now, if that is truly what you desire. However, you must be willing to "do a new thing." You must spend a little time, each day, in devotion to the truth about yourself and the truth about life. You must make a conscious approach to what you think and how you feel about what you do. Devotion will clear up misconceptions that may have obscured your vision of life until today!" ~Iyanla

Faith in the Valley
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Format: Paperback 256pp
Publication Date: April 1996

"Iyanla Vanzant gently takes our attention off the negative thoughts which have left so much pain and destruction in their wake, and restores a new resiliency to our souls. She leaves us ready to receive love again...our own and that of others."

Book Description

Beloved friend,

When this little book was first published many years ago, it became a beacon of light for many people who found themselves time and time again in one valley or another. Valleys are nothing new for any of us. Some of you may be in a valley right now, or, since you never know what's around the corner, you may be on the brink of tottering into yet another valley. Or maybe you've just survived a valley that you swear you'll never revisit -- but guess what? That's precisely the valley you'll probably see again. And again.

Being in a valley can be a lonely and bewildering experience. This book was written to help you feel less lonely by reminding you that you really aren't ever alone since God is always by your side, but more important, you are always by your own side. No matter how dire the situation may seem, no matter how dark and bleak the valley may be, you have all you need within you to survive the valley -- any valley. Even though you may not know how you got into the valley in the first place, you do know, deep inside yourself, how to get through and out and free. You just need a little faith in yourself and a little guidance to find that faith within yourself.

When you are at your wit's end, take this little book and let it guide you toward the ever-present but often elusive light at the end of the tunnel. Faith in the Valley is designed to help you find the light when you need it most -- when you're in that damn tunnel. When you're most confused and in the dark and clueless as to how you got there (again!) and when you're trying to figure out not just how to get out, but stay out. For good.

Faith in the Valley has helped so many through so much that we felt it only fitting to issue this lovely gift edition to acknowledge the special place it holds in many hearts. Please share it with a friend who has served as your beacon in the past, or offer it to yourself as a reminder of the strength and wisdom you possess and can offer to others.

Iyanla

 

One Day My Soul Just Opened Up 40 Days and 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Format: Paperback 256pp
Publication Date: December 1997

"Everyday I read Iyanla Vanzant's inspired work, my sould just opens up! And so will yours if you heed her advice on how to achieve a greater sense of self-awareness and self-assurance." —Tavis Smiley

Both an inspiring guide and a hands-on measurement tool that enables readers to chart their spiritual growth as it unfolds, "One Day My Soul Just Opened Up" encourages readers to use journal writing as a self-awareness process. Vanzant introduces 40 principles to follow and embrace in daily living as guideposts on the path toward spiritual strength and understanding.

"One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is a program of inspiration and motivation that will help you work through problems and improve your emotional and spiritual health. Through exercises and readings, Iyanla provides you with the tools to tap into your strengths and make your dreams come true. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up will open your mind, heart, and soul to the truth of your identity as a creative and powerful being. - The Publisher

Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 1993

Acts of Faith is a thoughtful and inspirational book that explores the unique pressures of people of color today with great insight and sensitivity. This book is the minimum daily requirement for people of color in search of inspiration and support.

Beloved Friends,

Acts of Faith, more affectionately known as "the purple book," has truly taken on a life of its own. It has crossed gender lines to foster understanding, racial divides to create peace, religious barriers to encourage tolerance, and has become somewhat of a lantern for those seeking a better way of life. I have been told it has saved lives, renewed faith, created vision and healed wounds. Some day it has comforted them. Others say it has enlightened them. It has changed perspectives for some, directions for others and lives for many. I can take no credit for any of this. In fact, I give the credit to those of you who were willingly seeking, open and easy for whatever blessing you received from your interaction with this book.

My goal in writing the book was to provide a service. At that time I never imagined how greatly I would be served. The kindness, generosity and love I have received in a response to this book has been, at times, overwhelming. Because we live in a world and during a time when we are untrusting, almost afraid of one another; we can forget how loving and supportive people can be. We also live in an environment where we tend to think of one another as them and us; the haves and the have nots. My experience during both the writing and promotion of Acts of Faith has served as a valuable reminder of how alike we all are. We all cry. We all hurt. We all want to do better. We all learn and we all grow.

I have grown tremendously since the publication of Acts of Faith. In both my personal and professional life, I have grown in the realization of just how precious life is and how blessed we are to be alive. I have grown to appreciate the delicate balance between surviving and flourishing. I have grown in the realization of the awesome responsibility one undertakes when they seek to serve. More important, I have grown stronger in my faith and belief that God is happy when His children are happy. You and I are God's precious children.

Acts of Faith has brought an incredible amount of happiness into my life. For this, I am grateful. I am happy that so many are searching for the truth about life and about themselves. I am happy that people from all walks of life, all social backgrounds are developing a deeper sense of awareness and connection to the beauty of life and the glory of God. I am grateful that from a very rocky beginning in life, I have been entrusted by the Creator to bring forth a message of truth and healing. I am grateful that healing is available and that many have found the healing that they sought in the pages of this little purple book.

People often ask me, "What are your plans for the future? What will you do next?" They are somewhat taken aback by my casual response, "I haven't got a clue!" Acts of Faith has taught me the value of surrender and the wisdom of not getting bogged down in all the details of life. I know that God has a plan for me and for us. I know that when you have pure intent and a loving desire, God will not forsake you. I wanted to show my appreciation to you by offering this gift edition of Acts of Faith as a special way of letting you know how much your love and support has meant to me. Give it to a friend or a loved one, or present it to yourself as a reminder that when you act on faith, you rarely go wrong and you are always blessed. Thank you for blessing me with your love.

Iyanla

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