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Finding Sarah: A Duchess's Journey To Find Herself, Sarah The Duchess of York Furguson. 3 out of 5 stars.
From amazon:
"FINDING SARAH is an extraordinarily personal memoir by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. As she spends time with Dr. Phil McGraw, she gains a new understanding of her relationship with herself and with others. Suze Orman helps Sarah unravel the poisonous money issues she suffers from. Martha Beck teaches her how let go of her negative self-image. Many other friends and experts populate these pages and you will meet them all.
Sarah's journey, in so many ways, is everyone’s journey and as she shares her story with us she also shares the advice and wisdom she benefited from along the way. Her struggles with adversity have taught her that life’s lows can become a source of strength and courage. She knows, first hand, what it means to feel lost and she also knows that it is never too late to find your way back, to attain your goal, to take back control of your life and to make a special dream come true.
Through intimate diary excerpts and personal emails from friends and family, Sarah opens herself unsparingly. On every page of this book you will hear from Sarah’s friends and guides, her “real-life angels,” as they help her get to the root of her problems – from comfort eating to self-loathing, from reckless over-spending to notorious mishaps. You will learn from them, as she did. In this way, Sarah hopes not only to talk to you as a friend but to inspire you, through her own experiences, to look closely at your own life and where you wish to improve it, then to encourage you to follow your instincts and find your true path."
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I'll preface this by saying I'm not a royal watcher. Well, at least not any more. I was when I was a teen when Sarah and Diana burst out onto the scene, when things were really hopping. Even then, I didn't follow that closely, but, dammit, I did dig me some Fergie. She was always funny and real, a real change of pace from the stodginess of the rest of the royal family...I've always kept half an eye on her and how she's been doing over the years.
Sarah had a docuseries on Oprah's network that caught my eye earlier this summer that I watched. I thought the book would detail her journey a bit more intimately, but that didn't happen. It was basically a rehash of her show in written form with some extra bits of stuff added in. The emails from friends part was the most annoying for me. They were just sorta plopped in there, from random people that were typically not mentioned in the story save for a few of them. Just no real context to me for them to be there. They were nothing more than distractions for me, really.
I expected a self-helpy kind of book, but it was more self-helpy than I was anticipating. I was expecting more memoir type material. I sort of got it, by accident, LOL.
Verdict? If you love Sarah, you might like this book alright. Wait for paperback or get it from the library. Not necessarily a "keeper". If you want to read about her earlier life, go for her book My Story. Now *that* was a pretty damned good read!
From amazon:
"FINDING SARAH is an extraordinarily personal memoir by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. As she spends time with Dr. Phil McGraw, she gains a new understanding of her relationship with herself and with others. Suze Orman helps Sarah unravel the poisonous money issues she suffers from. Martha Beck teaches her how let go of her negative self-image. Many other friends and experts populate these pages and you will meet them all.
Sarah's journey, in so many ways, is everyone’s journey and as she shares her story with us she also shares the advice and wisdom she benefited from along the way. Her struggles with adversity have taught her that life’s lows can become a source of strength and courage. She knows, first hand, what it means to feel lost and she also knows that it is never too late to find your way back, to attain your goal, to take back control of your life and to make a special dream come true.
Through intimate diary excerpts and personal emails from friends and family, Sarah opens herself unsparingly. On every page of this book you will hear from Sarah’s friends and guides, her “real-life angels,” as they help her get to the root of her problems – from comfort eating to self-loathing, from reckless over-spending to notorious mishaps. You will learn from them, as she did. In this way, Sarah hopes not only to talk to you as a friend but to inspire you, through her own experiences, to look closely at your own life and where you wish to improve it, then to encourage you to follow your instincts and find your true path."
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I'll preface this by saying I'm not a royal watcher. Well, at least not any more. I was when I was a teen when Sarah and Diana burst out onto the scene, when things were really hopping. Even then, I didn't follow that closely, but, dammit, I did dig me some Fergie. She was always funny and real, a real change of pace from the stodginess of the rest of the royal family...I've always kept half an eye on her and how she's been doing over the years.
Sarah had a docuseries on Oprah's network that caught my eye earlier this summer that I watched. I thought the book would detail her journey a bit more intimately, but that didn't happen. It was basically a rehash of her show in written form with some extra bits of stuff added in. The emails from friends part was the most annoying for me. They were just sorta plopped in there, from random people that were typically not mentioned in the story save for a few of them. Just no real context to me for them to be there. They were nothing more than distractions for me, really.
I expected a self-helpy kind of book, but it was more self-helpy than I was anticipating. I was expecting more memoir type material. I sort of got it, by accident, LOL.
Verdict? If you love Sarah, you might like this book alright. Wait for paperback or get it from the library. Not necessarily a "keeper". If you want to read about her earlier life, go for her book My Story. Now *that* was a pretty damned good read!
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