Who am I? What do I want to do with the rest of my life? In SURRENDERING TO YOURSELF, Iris Krasnow takes readers on the ultimate journey, into complete self-knowledge and self-love. In a powerful blend of personal narrative and interviews. Krasnow shows us how listen to our gut instincts, resurrect childhood dreams, and plug into the passion of our souls. In these uncertain times, Krasnow urges us to surrender to our true selves now, and not put off becoming who we were meant to be all along.

Krasnow's latest book, SURRENDERING TO MARRIAGE, was a New York Times bestseller that followed the success of SURRENDERING TO MOTHERHOOD. In this last of her Surrendering trilogy, Krasnow traces her own voyage into what she calls her "self of truth" beyond the role of Mommy to four young sons and beyond the "Wife self" married for 14 years. With dozens of inspirational examples of transformed lives, she pushes all of us to unleash our true essence.

You will meet a grandmother who revives a girlhood fantasy and starts a professional modeling career in her 70s; a public relations executive who has been HIV positive for seventeen years and lives each day as if it were his last; a 27-year-old wanderer who travels to New Zealand to "find herself" only to discover that the happiness she was looking for is inside of her, not in an external place, and an eighty-one-year old legend, once the most influential newspaper editor of his time, who reflects on the climb down into the last lap of his life.

Krasnow prepares us for confronting the alone-ness we will all have to face throughout the aging process: when our children leave home, when parents grow ill and die, when a career suddenly ends, as we face our own mortality. Her message is resoundingly clear: It's never too late to start over as we look back at our lives and realize we missed out on our dreams.

SURRENDERING TO YOURSELF teaches us how to finally embrace exactly who we are, and stop shaping our selves according to the expectations of others. As with her other books, SURRENDERING TO YOURSELF promises to cause a stir with Krasnow's fellow baby boomers who are turning gray, looking hard at their lives, and asking themselves: What's next?

SURRENDERING TO YOURSELF

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