Opening The Kimono: A Woman's Intimate Journey Through Life's Biggest Challenges

By Theresa Rose

Opening the Kimono: A Womans Intimate Journey Through Lifes Biggest Challenges is a diary, tell-all, rant, confession, and healing guide all rolled into one. Author Theresa Rose is Everywoman. She has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981886906
• ISBN13: 9780981886909
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Serious Mojo Publications
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

50 STARS!!!

Wow, Theresa's got gonads, or more specifically, OVARIES!!! She really writes from her core, promising not to write about anything that doesn't scare her to the point of wiggling in her seat. This cathartic read is like a mirror held up to the most private confessions you have never made. Now, you have someone who is saying it first, making it safe to look at yourself closer than you may have dared in the past. A must read. Plus she'll make you laugh!! She'll inspire you with her own inspired lifestyle of living by her intuition. She brings about forgiveness. Thank you Theresa.

Love it! Love it! Love it!

I love this book! The first time I read it, was in one sitting! I couldn't put it down. I could directly relate to so many of the experiences shared and it helped me learn about and deal with some of my own...stuff. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll be inspired!

Read this book !!

This book was one of the best books I have ever read! I've already read it several times, and each time it makes me laugh til I cry, cry til I laugh, and think about my own life. As you read, you feel like Theresa is the room with you - sharing your thoughts and experiences. Opening the Kimono has inspired me, and I feel better about myself after having read it. I've already bought several copies as holiday gifts for my girlfriends! I highly recommend it.

The energy of this book made my arms tingle...

It's not often that I pick up a book and can feel intensely the love energy that went into creating it. Theresa Rose brought my deepest secrets into the light of truth as she described the same fears that I hold, the same obsessions and addictions that hold me back from honoring and sharing my truth. She wrote stories of raising dear Emma, cultivating a marriage with her beloved Michael and her interactions on physical and spiritual planes. Through these bits and pieces, Theresa made me feel comfortable in my own skin, honest enough to own up to my own "gunk" and totally excited to share my own "mojo" with the rest of the world. When I finished reading Opening the Kimono, I started with "WOW" followed by another word showcasing my stellar vocabulary ;-). Then I grabbed my phone, called my best friend and said, "This book will start a self-healing revolution." Opening the Kimono created a space for me to be as bold as Theresa, to be as honest as Theresa, and to be ok with the fact that its scary to be both bold and honest.

Cathartic Gold

As a browser of Women's Studies and Self-Help aisles, I often find myself seeking the ultimate panacea - that one book that will appease the wounds in my psyche that seem beyond repair. After scanning a random synopsis or first chapter, I tend to still feel unsatisfied by the text, but I buy it anyway, hoping it will get better (or, rather, that I will). And when I don't, I remind myself that this emotional cure-all book simply doesn't exist. It didn't, until now. In the case of "Opening the Kimono," I believe I've struck cathartic gold. It is my excuse to elbow an entire stack of paperbacks off of my shelf to make room for the only one I've ever needed. This hilarious, tear-jerking portrait of women today and the challenges they endure is like a delicious truth serum. It will make you want to curl up in a tent in your pajamas with a box of chocolates, bite your lip and read it under a flashlight. It will make you yearn to confess your deepest, most embarrassing trials as you live vicariously through the author's. It will help you feel closer to the women in your life, and most importantly, to yourself. Theresa Rose provided my soul with the embrace it was craving, and saved me a million desperate trips to the psychiatrist, the bookstore and the bathroom scale. Rose is me. She's you. She's scared. She's hungry. She's lost. She's the most awkward one in gym class, the worst mother in the world and the aimless bookstore wanderer in search of answers. But she's truly happy, not in spite of all this so-called chaos, but because of it. It is the imperfections that make us perfect, and it's about time we celebrated them. What a revelation.