Love’s Secret: Live Your Life in Love

Annie B. Lawrence
Sedona Publishers (2007)
ISBN 9780979353505
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (2/08)


When I started reading “Love’s Secret: Live Your Life in Love” I knew very quickly that this book was more than just the usual self-help book.  The author not only counsels people about love, but she lives the principles herself.  The cover of the book depicts this perfectly as it is a picture of Lawrence and her husband, the love of her life. 

The book is broken into twelve Love’s Secrets.  These include: commit to love, clear beliefs, developing trust, open your heart, vision for love, love habits, create a safe place, keep passion alive, focus on love, celebrate love, rituals of love and create support.  Each chapter addresses the topic of choice and Lawrence tells patient stories to get her point across.  At the close of most of the chapters are Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) exercises.  These are used to clear emotional energy and blocks from the body.  The author describes this exercise best “This technique includes tapping on nine major points that correlate to the energy meridians that traverse the body.  When we either deny or ignore emotions, that we are uncomfortable with, these emotions get stuck and cause both emotional and physical reactions.”  During each exercise you will begin by making a statement and then tap on the correlated emotional center.  An illustration in the appendix shows you exactly where to begin the tapping. 

I found the chapters to be very useful not only in relationships, but also in helping to get in touch with myself so that I can be completely open in a relationship.  I read the book straight through but plan to take Lawrence’s advice and go back and spend time working on each chapter by reading, journaling and performing the EFT exercises.  My favorite chapter was Secret Number 11 – Creating Rituals.  I will not spoil the chapter by describing the rituals, but suffice it to say that they should spice up even the dullest relationships! 

When Lawrence is not writing, she is running her retreat center in Sedona, Arizona.  There are personal, group and couples’ retreats held in Sedona, California and Hawaii.  I went to the website, www.retreatandheal.com, and the retreats sound wonderful and healing.  I am definitely putting the personal retreat on my own personal to-do list.  I highly recommend “Love’s Secret: Live Your Life in Love” to anyone who is thinking about going into a relationship or already in one.  The techniques taught here will assist in making your relationship the best that it can be.

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