Yesterday, I Cried Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving

by Vanzant, Iyanla

• ISBN13: 9780743218580
• ISBN10: 0743218582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-07
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life -- one full of great challenges that have unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to the wisdom she has gained. In this simple book, she uses her own experiences to show how life's hardships can be relanguaged and re-visioned to become lessons that teach us as we grow, heal, and learn to love. Iyanla Vanzant is an example of how yesterday's tears become the seeds of today's hope, renewal, and strength.

Author Biography

Iyanla Vanzant is the award-winning and bestselling author of Until Today!, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, In the Meantime, and many others. She lectures and facilitates workshops nationally, assisting 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