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About Scotland With A Stranger: A Memoir
Product Description “Who goes to Scotland for two weeks with a stranger they met over the internet?” At forty-three, Ninya was depressed, out of shape, and filled with crippling anxiety after addiction, cancer, and divorce had destroyed nearly everything. One day, she received a message from a stranger. This woman offered to lead her on a self-healing trip hiking through the Scottish highlands. It seemed like a sign—a big sister sent when she needed one most. In this sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, but always inspiring memoir, an introverted pollyanna is paired up with her polar opposite—a steamrolling, abrasive female with completely unorthodox healing methods. As they barrel through the winding one lane roads in a tiny rental car stopping to hike at breathtaking mountains and glens, an outrageous series of events forces Ninya to reclaim her power and find the strength to heal herself in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Review {EXCERPT} "As middle-aged women, we are all yearning to pilgrimage to a place of peace within ourselves. Craving the time and the luxury to focus on ourselves for a moment when knee deep in the business of motherhood seems selfish. It is not. The choices we made as teenagers and young women may have set us up for success or failure as adults, and we are processing everything in a world that constantly demands from us--taking more and more, as much as we are willing to sacrifice until we are completely empty." Every memoir I have ever read is an uplifting story of a young _____ who must overcome _____ to discover _____about themselves.Scotland with a Stranger is less a memoir than it is part comedy, part tragedy, and part horror movie, (the parts where you scream, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?" and "DON'T GO IN THERE!!!")It is the story of a not so young single mother who takes a desperate leap of faith into the wilds of a foreign country, into the hands of a stranger she met on the internet, and into an unknown many of us never brave.Surprisingly, she lives to tell the tale and takes us with her on the craziest journey I am capable of believing is real.Sometimes she is telling her strange story, sometimes she is telling the story of my mother, my best friend, me.Potential Spoiler: (besides that she lives,) the author doesn't emerge as a superhero, or a guru, or a snake oil saleswoman. She emerges as a not so young single mother with work still to be done; but also as a reminder that darkness doesn't have to last forever, that strength isn't always about the big things, and that sometimes, you have to take a wild leap in order to land on your feet. Not Just Another Memoir There are things in life that speak to the deepest parts of our hearts; our triumphs, our failures, our hopes, our fears, our dreams, our pain. For some it is art, for others, it is music. For some, it will be this book. Ninya shares, in an authentic and uncomplicated way, that she is living a life so many of us live. The names are changed, the rooms are different colors, the smells vary in their complexity. You will cheer her as she makes discoveries about life and self you yourself have made. You will find hope in the lessons she has absorbed; lessons we all know intellectually, but may still be struggling to fully bring into ourselves. You will want to hug away her pain, so much like your own. You will want to assure her she is on a good path, she is worthy, she is strength. She is another version of you, on paper for all to see. She will remind you that your journey is YOUR journey, and yet it is the journey of us all. And wherever that journey takes us, we are on a good path, we are worthy, we are strength. About the Author I've always been a risk-taker, so at 44 I decided to follow my dream, leave everything behind and become an author. It has been a roller coaster ride with a punishing learning curve, but if it were easy, everyone would do it. I love to travel and a trip to
