Truly a labor of love

Open Your Heart is a comforting message in the face of uncertain crossroads. Recommended for anyone caught in the throes of a mid-life reexamination of their existence. Open Your Heart is a book about integrity. Only complete integration of even the messy parts can...

Inspiring and unique!

In Open Your Heart, Ruth Cherry invites the reader into the mid-life dance of a woman whose picture-perfect life and brilliant career has saddled her with a profound unease. An inner angst gnaws around the edges of her victories and leaves her feeling that there is a...

An uplifting work of fiction

Cherry has constructed this story as a gentle teaching tool, adding just the right guidance at the right moment for the development of Anne’s new, stronger self. Writing the book as fiction has allowed Cherry to open up the narrative in a way that is more engaging and...

I enjoyed this novel by Ruth Cherry, PhD.

It is the second one I’ve read by this author but hopefully it won’t be the last! There’s lots of complex emotional action, great character and story development, flashes of humor, and some genuinely profound moments. The world Dr. Cherry creates feels like a...

Open Your Heart was an interesting blend.

Profound insight, intrigue, drama, and personal conflict, humor, and warm-hearted inspiration. I liked how the author, Ruth Cherry, PhD, managed to weave together this unique, deep and complex—but not confusing—story of a woman and her ‘friends’ who assist her with...