{"id":5996,"date":"2010-03-18T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2010-03-01T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:43:38","slug":"29-gifts-how-a-month-of-giving-can-change-your-life-by-cami-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/29-gifts-how-a-month-of-giving-can-change-your-life-by-cami-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One month after her wedding,\u00a0 Cami Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.\u00a0 Two years later, she was depressed, angry and addicted to prescription pain medication.\u00a0 Though at first reluctant, she decides to follow a recommendation from her friend, Mbali Creazzo, a healer from South Africa.\u00a0 The advice: give away something every day, for 29 days.<\/p>\n

In shifting her focus from herself (and her difficulties) to others, Walker also becomes more open to receiving\u00a0gifts. \u00a0By Day 29, she\u00a0 is not only healthier and happier, but\u00a0she has\u00a0created a worldwide giving movement, 29 Gifts.<\/a><\/strong> In some ways, with it’s message of being positive, the book<\/strong><\/a> is reminiscent of The Secret<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Rhonda Bryne.\u00a0 \u00a0However,\u00a0because it recounts her journey of dealing with a serious illness, it seems more personal,\u00a0a\u00a0factor that is enhanced by the inclusion of\u00a0the stories of others who relate their own experience of giving for 29 days.<\/p>\n

It’s realistic enough to make me want to try it.\u00a0\u00a0What\u00a0kind of world might this be if we all did?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One month after her wedding,\u00a0 Cami Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.\u00a0 Two years later, she was depressed, angry and addicted to prescription pain medication.\u00a0 Though at first reluctant, she decides to follow a recommendation from her friend, Mbali Creazzo, a healer from South Africa.\u00a0 The advice: give away something[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[746,1085],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-giving","tag-overcoming-hardship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1yI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}