Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story

As woman, my soul, what feeds my soul, and how my soul wants to be expressed is often thwarted. After so many years of suppressing my soul, it feels terrifying to begin living from what my heart and soul truly desire. I feel I will be alone and rejected and that it may not be possible to be loved AND be me. Sera's story is living proof that this is possible, that there are divinely terrifying parts of life, especially when following your own path, and that living from your soul, in love with your soul, and in relationship to your truest self, is an ongoing journey of challenges, but also one of beauty, tears of joy, and solace, deep love, laugh, and glittering joys. Sera sends the message to the reader's heart that life IS worth living for all of its ugly, painful moments and for all of its beauty, its evolving living breathing relationships, and its ecstasy. Her story will be certainly different than yours but, if you open your heart and soul, her words will feel utterly warm and familiar.This book, for my personal experience, is nourishment for all of the seeds of my soul that have gone untended. Reading Sera's beautiful, raw, utterly truthful story of her self and her soul has allowed me to look back into my life and acknowledged all of extraordinary moments in my life that I dismissed because they were not similar to mainstream meaningful experiences.I am an occupational therapist and when I first met Sera and read her book I was healing from utter burn-out and self-doubt regarding my work in the Healthcare system. I often felt as though I was a shell that said the right words and did the right action but felt very little. I had so much passion in college and my struggles left my dejected.After finishing her book I sent Sera the message:"Sera, what have you done! Ever since I read your book the absolute freakiest stuff has been happening within me. It's been there all along but suddenly... I can see it, I can suddenly feel myself: not on a cloud of bliss, but with lots of work cut out for me... I finally feel like I exist. Sera I absolutely cannot thank you and the Red Lady and your relationship enough....I feel as if I am starting to have my LiFe back ::tear::"Sera's book highlights that in our own individual- even freaky and completely out there experiences- we can find our souls. She does this not by telling us how or even encouraging us to follow what she has done, but by revealing her deepest truths in her own personal story. Between the lines she whispers...... "you have your own fiery and gorgeous story. LIVE IT. AWAKE. ALIVE. WILDY."I suggest this book with all of my heart and soul, thank you for reading this review, and I hope your decision to read or not to read represent your unique truth.

I first heard about Sera Beck on Dr. Christiane Northrup's radio show on Hayhouse radio and rushed to buy this book. It did not disappoint! On the contrary, it opened a new world to me. MY world. From my Self. It's a meaty read, deadly humorous and raw, ragged, graceful, delicious, and educational. I could hardly put it down yet I did not want it to end. What the book did for me was bring into alignment a journey I'd already been on since the pregnancy with my son, 25 years ago. I had a mystical awakening during that pregnancy, and then a traumatic ending to it, tho the son was fine and born healthy. I'm a huge fan of Abraham-Hicks and ever a seeker/questioner/doubter who never ceases the search for Truth...whatever that is! And this wonderful book,( and this is why it IS so redvolutionary), somehow brought it all together, wove all the pieces of my journey's puzzle together and finally made sense of it. Because even with all I knew, (or thought I knew), I was still going outside of myself for answers, instead of within. That is how Sera's confessional, shared with raw honesty, nakedly and without photo shopping the gritty details of her process to make it more palatable to squeamish readers, baring of her Soul in all Its facets, perfect and imperfect, helped to bring me back where I always needed to be. Back to my Self. Just as with Dorothy at the end of her trip to Oz, when the good witch tells her she always had the means to go home within her, the discoveries Sera shares with us led me to know that Home is where the Soul's heart is. WE are what we ultimately seek. I knew that intuitively, but this book just catapulted me there and helped strip away my resistance. And that is a redvolution and a miracle! So thank you to Sera Beck for having the courage and authenticity to write, "Red Hot and Holy," for being the amazing Goddess and inspiration that she is for us, her fellow Soul sisters, and for giving us permission to come out of the trance society has conditioned us into, and back into the light of awakening where our Soul has been waiting for us all along.

Stimulating and heart-warming. Also challenging. Sera's story offered confirmation for many of my own experiences of spiritual seeking, which also allowed me to feel connected to a larger group of seekers who perhaps do not have the awareness that more of us than we expected, exist. Even though I have only met one or two other women like me (and Sera) - well not exactly like! - I found that reading Sera's story was a comforting (and often laugh-out-loud, and have a good cry) experience. I'd recommend this to anyone who has felt they needed to dim or restrain their passionate impulses. Restraining that particular emotion is NOT a healthy practice. Finding methods of expression is what is needed. So read. Experience new things. And this book is a good place to start, or continue :-)

I am so Sorry to say this, but I have the strong feeling to do it to protect others: people should just stop to publish their own mental brain s... and work on their stuff on their own. Publishing a book is no therapy, it should be a real gift and benefit for others.One of the worst books I have ever read.

expected more from it.

This is a magnificent book exploring a life's work in progress on the soul. It is in turns erudite, conversational, abstract, deeply personal and very funny. It is also written directly from the author's psyche, as she invites the reader to seek their own truth within themselves through showing her own painful struggles. A slick, chick-lit, bandwagon self-help book this is not! In sharing her unique journey Sera Beak is brave, revolutionary and inspiring; and in reaching out to the rest of us she makes us realise we are not working on the periphery or in a vacuum.

C'est la première fois que je lis un livre de cette veine. Sera Beak a un accès au monde spirituel qui lui est propre (et très fort) et arrive a transcrire dans ce livre le lien quotidien qu'elle a avec les mondes spirituels (et ses êtres) et son quotidien concret de femme de 30 ans. Pour ceux qui s'intéressent au spirituel sans vouloir s'échapper du réel ce livre peut-être utile car cela fait partie de la trame du livre de joindre les deux sans cesse. "Red hot and holy" est l'auto-biographie rock-and-roll et unique d'une femme (Sera Beak) dans son cheminement spirituel dans le monde physique, concret et très actuel de notre époque. Une des trames du livre est qu'elle se rend compte qu'elle est trop portée sur l'esprit au détriment du reste (notamment l'âme) et ce depuis sa tendre enfance et tout en gardant ce fort contact avec l'esprit chemine à incarner plus fortement de son âme (la partie plus sombre de l'homme).Ce livre est très personnel mais nous pouvons tous nous retrouver dans le cheminement spirituel qui consiste a accepter de lâcher, d'aller vers l'inconnu, de tomber et se redresser en léchant ses blessures et se voir grandir et devenir plus fort.