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  • The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle

  • How I Faced My Fears, Shifted Gears, and Found Healing from Anxiety, Codependency, and Depression
  • By: Leslie Reyes
  • Narrated by: Brittany Morgan Williams
  • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle

By: Leslie Reyes
Narrated by: Brittany Morgan Williams
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Summary

Her childhood was scarred by her mother’s schizophrenia. But she still had fuel in the tank.

Leslie Reyes felt like a prisoner of trauma. Shortly after she prevented her mother’s suicide at the age of 10, she began having panic attacks—and ultimately realized that her mom’s mental health diagnoses had distracted her parents from teaching her the tools she needed to survive.

Despite her beloved Filipino uncle’s encouragement to taste the thrill of riding motorcycles, her terror always won out. But at age 50, Leslie finally found the courage to get back in the saddle after hearing a tale shared at his funeral. And stunned by how many liberating life lessons lay within the open road, her years of living with stifling emotional pain gave way to the principle that broken things can invariably be fixed.

In this raw and poignant memoir filled with gorgeous insights, Leslie Reyes bares her highest highs and lowest lows on the long highway of humanity. And by applying the wisdom she gained in learning to ride a motorbike to her lifelong quest to conquer fear, she offers a guiding hand along the hills and valleys of an unpredictable life.

In The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle, you’ll embark on a journey that reveals:

  • The benefits of response over reaction, and how measured behavior bears abundant rewards
  • How to respect your limitations so you can excel at your own pace
  • Why breaking something is only bad if you don’t take the time to understand how to fix it
  • Ways to overcome the tunnel vision of target fixation so you always end up at your destination
  • The power of mindfulness, the impact of enjoying the moment, and much, much more!

The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle is a thoughtful metaphor for carrying you through the ups and downs of the everyday. If you like heartfelt roller coasters, humanistic ideals, and empowering memoirs, then you’ll love Leslie Reyes’s revved-up tale.

Buy The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle to kick-start a brighter tomorrow today!

©2022 Leslie Reyes (P)2022 Leslie Reyes
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An interesting life worth a listen

I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook. The narrator was easy to listen to and a very interesting and surprising story unfolds. The author's sharing of her life experience and referencing in her lessons learned compared with learning to ride a motorcycle is well combined.
The only downside for me to not make it a five star is that was a bit repetitive in places and understand that related to the fact that some stories and incidents were duplicated within the lessons learned, but the jumping back and forth between years and not in sequence got a little confusing for me at times and although tried not to let it distract from the essence and intention of book it did effect me towards end of the book.
A lovely listen and interesting life revealed so worth a listen or read, I received free audiobook in order to provide an honest review.

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SAVE YOUR CREDIT DO NOT PURCHASE!!!!

I purchased this with the intent of a good listen, BUT UNLESS YOU ARE IN TO ZEN PLEASE GIVE IT A MISS. What is worse is that Audible will not return my credit stating that I return to may books, which is a lie. I think to many people are returning the book and now they are blocking people from getting there legal right to a return.
I only listened to only about 20 mins of this rubbish and could not stand any more. If your in to Zen please accept my apologies but this is just not for me
Read other peoples reviews please, this book is not what you think

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