Olejar Books

In her bestseller The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Isabel Losada set out with a modest aim – –˜to be absurdly happy every day–™. But a few years down the road, she–™s stuck in a pothole. No job (not good). No man (very not good). Nothing has turned out as she–™d intended.

There–™s only one way to get out of the hole: throw out the ideas that landed her there and start over. So, using the ancient Chinese tradition of the five elements of life - Metal, Fire, Wood, Water, Earth - Isabel breaks her own life down to its essentials to explore five areas of inner and outer change.

She calls in a feng shui consultant to discover that her bedroom decor is –˜draining the father–™ (whatever that means)... takes a motivational workshop to experience the power of –˜doing–™... turns a silent meditation retreat into an exercise in unrelenting –˜being–™... sits at the feet of a Brixton guru to examine the nature of mind... and undertakes a shamanic ritual in the Amazon to part company with her own mind completely. As rich as the book is in the particulars of a life hilariously lived, it–™s also universal: readers can see themselves in Isabel–™s experience and look at their lives with new eyes.