Reviewed by Leonard Smuts for Readers' Favorite

Lisa Carr combines self-help with a perfect introduction to the spiritual path in The Spiritual Mentor Handbook. The book both teaches and heals, while encouraging continued spiritual growth and self-discovery. It will strike a chord with many readers who are looking for purpose and clarity. The book is structured to provide 21 days of study material, which includes tools and techniques such as affirmations, notes on journaling, creating a safe and private space, releasing pain, being mindful, setting goals, and aligning them with your intention. For the best results, the author suggests reading a chapter a day, a task that will take between 15 and 20 minutes, preferably in the morning. This will establish a positive pattern for the day ahead. Each chapter allows space for reflection and provides a practical application of the lesson learned, along with hints on how to go about it. Each of the 21 days has a theme, such as cultivating a healthy body, mind, and spirit, gentleness, performing acts of kindness, laughter, managing your thoughts, detachment, and decluttering. Each week of exercises ends with a milestone marker, which offers space to integrate the new energies that have been generated, as well as allowing emotions to surface. Key themes are preparing for the future while remaining flexible and mapping scenarios, being known for your kindness, and discovering the healer within. This will result in balance and a better version of you.

In addition to extensive experience in the corporate and holistic fields, Lisa Carr uses the Tarot and Oracle cards to provide guidance. She is also a Reiki Master, healing with energy and sound, a life coach, and channels the spirit world to provide insight and advice for students and clients. She brings her empathy, intuition, and knowledge to the fore in The Spiritual Mentor Handbook. The result is a user-friendly guide that will uplift and inspire. It is a call to boldness in reclaiming your life. Readers should not underrate themselves, claim back their power, and celebrate their growth. There is an opportunity to make new friends and form support systems. The writing style is both warm and instructive. Chapters begin with motivational quotations and offer sound advice going forward. This book will serve as an incentive for readers to explore a spiritual path, without getting too involved in esoteric philosophy at this early stage. This book provides the essential grounding that is often overlooked by those hoping for an instant solution or seekers who have not found the right teacher and become discouraged. It provides welcome guidance at a time of upheaval in the field of human consciousness.