FORGIVENESS

Alternative health care practitioner Torok offers a robust and spiritual approach to letting go of resentments.

The author writes that she had a tough early life, as she was adopted into a family “where anger led the way.” However, she says that she was comforted by an inner voice reminding her she “was not a bad person.” As an adult, she received guidance from spirits whom she calls “Angels.” Eventually, she says, the messages she received from “the other side of the veil” became too intense, and she asked the Angels to stop contacting her; she writes that they did. She had a varied career, including time as a University of Alabama professor and as a dancer on tour with the famed Rockettes in New York City. In time, Torok says, she summoned the angels back into her life, and she began to receive guidance on forgiving all those who harmed her in her life. She calls these messengers the “Angels of Forgiveness,” and their missives became what she calls “The 4GiveNess Project,” the topic that makes up the core of this book. Torok approaches the hard task of forgiveness from several angles, and the four parts of the book focus on what she calls the “lower bodies”: the mental body, the etheric (or memory) body, the physical body, and the emotional body. Each part is rich with meditations and journal exercises, with QR codes that lead readers to audio meditations. She appealingly gives readers permission to go at their own pace or to skip around in the book, and her gentle compassion shines through. However, if this book is aimed at a general audience, Torok may have overestimated readers’ familiarity with metaphysical beliefs; she begins the book by talking about a 20-sided quartz crystal in the shape of an icosahedron. Such esoterica could put off readers who might benefit greatly from this book. It also might have been more accessible if it led with the need for forgiveness and the benefits of it and then gradually introduced the more complex elements.

An earnest but overly dense collection of thoughts, meditations, and journal exercises.