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THE SECRET
By Rhonda Byrne A BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you something that stopped me cold the first time I noticed it. I had already written the Ten Hermetic Laws. All of them. From a homeless shelter in Calgary, from lived experience, from 80 days sober and everything I had survived to get to that keyboard. I had already written about the Law of Mentalism — that everyth
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Mar 23


The Dark Jewels Trilogy
A Book Review By The Man Who Finally Found His Dark Jewels By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about the love story I spent my entire life looking for. Not a romance. Not the particular hunger for another person that I spent decades searching for in rooms and relationships and the specific kind of connection that arrives and departs and leaves you emptier than the emptiness you were try
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Mar 22


The Anansi Boys
A Book Review By Someone Who Was Already Caught In The Web By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about a dedication. Not the book yet. The dedication. Because the dedication is where this story actually begins — and if you have ever picked up a book at exactly the right moment in exactly the right three days of emptiness and felt the whole weight of it settle into your chest before you re
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Mar 22


Let Them. And Then Let ME.
A Point of View on The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about the box I was hiding in. Not a metaphor. A real box. A single social media platform — X — where I had been quietly building something real in the one place I was reasonably certain the people from my past would never find me. Not because what I was building was not worth finding. Because... I
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Mar 17
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