Yesterday, I Cried : Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving

by Iyanla Vanzant

• ISBN13: 9780684864242
• ISBN10: 068486424X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-22
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

The latest book by bestselling author Iyanla,Vanzant shows how some of life's most important,and joyous lessons come from life's hardest,knocks. Here she draws on her trademark style to,reveal the universal lessons that readers can gain,from important events in their own lives.

Author Biography

Iyanla Vanzant is the award-winning and bestselling author of Acts of Faith, The Value in the Valley, Faith in the Valley, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, and In the Meantime. As an empowerment specialist, Spiritual Life Counselor, and ordained minister, she lectures and facilitates workshops nationally with a mission to assist in the empowerment of women and men everywhere.

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(6)
The Beginning	19	(10)
What's the Lesson When You Think You Figured Out the Lesson, and You Realy Haven't?	29	(19)
What's the Lesson When You Are an Unwanted, Neglected, and Abused Child?	48	(18)
What's the Lesson When You Do Not Realize That You are a Teacher?	66	(7)
What's the Lesson When You Don't Realize That Life Is a School?	73	(21)
What's the Lesson When You Are Poor, Ugly, and Feeling Bad?	94	(13)
What's the Lesson When You Are Raped as a Child?	107	(11)
What's the Lesson When You've Been Taught That You Are Unlovable?	118	(15)
What's the Lesson When You Don't Reconcile Your Past Before Moving Ahead?	133	(10)
What's the Lesson When You Engage in Self-Destructive Behavior?	143	(11)
What's the Lesson When You Are a Motherless Child Raising Children?	154	(16)
What's the Lesson When You Learn the Lesson, Then Forget It?	170	(13)
What's the Lesson When You Begin to Recognize Yourself as Who You Really Are?	183	(14)
What's the Lesson When You Lose Someone You Really Love?	197	(26)
What's the Lesson When You Have Mastered all the Wrong Lessons?	223	(11)
What's the Lesson When You Try to Cheat on a Test?	234	(10)
What's the Lesson When You Don't Love Yourself First?	244	(17)
What's the Lesson When You Get the Lesson but Don't Know What to Do With It?	261	(29)
What's the Lesson When You Let the Past Pass?	290	(14)
What's the Lesson When You Do It All Wrong and It Turns Out All Right?	304	(7)
Epilogue	311