Simplify: A Guide to Caring for the Soul Book

Goes through the idea of simplifying your life and specifically your soul, using the letters in Simplify. For instance, S is for Stillness.

This book isn't well-written, but the woman isn't a writer, she's a public speaker. At least twice a chapter my husband and I would pause on a sentence and gripe about it. (I read it with my husband, chapter by chapter, over the course of about 2 weeks.)

But the ideas are pretty solid. Not original, but they don't have to be, since the ultimate source of simplification and peace for the soul remains the same: Christ.

There were quite a few chapters that didn't speak to me, since I'm already a pretty simple person, and I'd already started the simplification process out of necessity about a year ago. She also spoke about not holding grudges (I don't, cause they eat away at my soul and I can't take it), learning to say no (did and done), and other such things that likewise didn't speak to me, since I'm already pretty good at them. But I'm not the typical Mormon woman who guilts herself about everything or wonders if there's one more person I could bring a casserole to (speaking of casseroles: why doesn't someone bring ME a casserole a little more often, huh?) or who over-commits to things because that's what we're "supposed" to do.

(As a side note, I didn't particularly care for her take on Integrity, but that's neither here nor there.)

But the last two chapters - Fortify and You - spoke to both me and my husband and we had great discussions about them.

I would give this book 3.5 stars if I could. I would recommend that if you read this book, read it outloud with someone else. I doubt I would have been able to get through it reading it to myself.