Live Your Truth: Start Your Journey to Freedom and Healing

In this cheery, straightforward guide, Gallagher (An Uncompromised Life) tells of how she rebounded from a thyroid cancer diagnosis at age 14 and discovered her calling “to empower people to courageously live their truth.” After going into remission at 23, Gallagher was lonely and unhappy, so she quit her job and moved from Maryland to New Zealand. That experience led her to establish the “Intoxicator Movement,” a process “where we create space for ourselves to look within, remove the toxic, and become what is left: our truest self in the world.” Gallagher urges readers to become “Intoxicators,” people who assert their agency, embrace their identity, and strive for improvement in themselves and the world around them. To become an Intoxicator, one must go through five steps: become open to new experiences, discover the “truth within us,” explore new ways of living, love one’s flaws, and “intoxicate” others with infectious love. Though Gallagher has a tendency to repeat herself, her upbeat tone and conversational style bring a certain charm to her program. This optimistic outing will appeal to those who are all in on the notion, as the author is, that “love will always prevail.” (Jan.)