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The Chocolate Pilgrim
Marie Maccagno is passionate about walking, the great outdoors, and chocolate. In the spring of 2009, she made a commitment to walk 800 kilometers through Spain in the hopes she could eat all the chocolate she could find.
What she didn’t expect to find was herself.
A walk that long gives a person a lot of time to think. Marie’s mind dished out big lessons around forgiving her mother, entertaining the idea of possibly leaving her husband, and honoring herself as a parent. One step at a time is how Marie completed the Camino de Santiago and learned to love herself after all the years of inner self-hate.
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"I can choose my own that’s what Marie’s journey has taught me. Her words will transport you to a place where you know you can choose too -- and that’s a rare gift. When you read her book, you will be so glad you walked this path with her!" Michele Gunderson, Ph.D., Best-selling author and Breakthrough Story Expert
"Marie’s book took me on a journey of her very personal quest - and I recognized myself in her difficult family relationships, questions about marriage, and not liking who I am. I am very grateful she did all the walking for me, and chose to share her wisdom in this powerful creative memoir!" Yvonne Basten, Executive Managing Director Calgary, eWomenNetwork Inc
What she didn’t expect to find was herself.
A walk that long gives a person a lot of time to think. Marie’s mind dished out big lessons around forgiving her mother, entertaining the idea of possibly leaving her husband, and honoring herself as a parent. One step at a time is how Marie completed the Camino de Santiago and learned to love herself after all the years of inner self-hate.
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"I can choose my own that’s what Marie’s journey has taught me. Her words will transport you to a place where you know you can choose too -- and that’s a rare gift. When you read her book, you will be so glad you walked this path with her!" Michele Gunderson, Ph.D., Best-selling author and Breakthrough Story Expert
"Marie’s book took me on a journey of her very personal quest - and I recognized myself in her difficult family relationships, questions about marriage, and not liking who I am. I am very grateful she did all the walking for me, and chose to share her wisdom in this powerful creative memoir!" Yvonne Basten, Executive Managing Director Calgary, eWomenNetwork Inc
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271 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 5, 2017
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June 10, 2018
Travel literature is my very favourite kind of book. But this one, not so much. I was very excited to read it, wanted to like it, tried to like, but struggled to finish.
I guess my impression was inaccurate that the book was to be a chronicle of sights, sounds, and impressions along the Camino.
There was a bit of that, but this was basically an account of the author's cathartic coming to terms with an abusive childhood and self-loathing.
All good, if that's what you want to read, but I didn't think that's what I had signed up for.
And where's the chocolate? Brief mentions, so the chocolate aspect is disappointing, too.
I feel like a bad person writing such a negative review when the author poured her heart out in this book.
Maybe it should be billed as self-help or spiritual journeys to weed out Negative Nellie readers like me.
I guess my impression was inaccurate that the book was to be a chronicle of sights, sounds, and impressions along the Camino.
There was a bit of that, but this was basically an account of the author's cathartic coming to terms with an abusive childhood and self-loathing.
All good, if that's what you want to read, but I didn't think that's what I had signed up for.
And where's the chocolate? Brief mentions, so the chocolate aspect is disappointing, too.
I feel like a bad person writing such a negative review when the author poured her heart out in this book.
Maybe it should be billed as self-help or spiritual journeys to weed out Negative Nellie readers like me.
May 11, 2020
I'm a fan of long hike memoirs and was excited to read about this pilgrimage Camino in Spain. I am overwhelmed by how much more I enjoyed it than I could have expected.
The book strives, and succeeds, throughout its pages to bring the Road to Santiago de Compostela alive in our imagination. It also draws us toward how life takes roads we cannot or do not envision unless we are prepared to follow and commit to the pathway ahead. The story brings us the opportunity to search within ourselves for our pilgrimage to follow, be it traveling the world or sitting down to learn something we always wished to know.
It's a true story that is easily relatable to anyone in this world who is figuring who they are and their purpose in life. It has an inspiring journey and is a great read. I recommend reading this.
An interesting and nicely written tale, well worth reading.
The book strives, and succeeds, throughout its pages to bring the Road to Santiago de Compostela alive in our imagination. It also draws us toward how life takes roads we cannot or do not envision unless we are prepared to follow and commit to the pathway ahead. The story brings us the opportunity to search within ourselves for our pilgrimage to follow, be it traveling the world or sitting down to learn something we always wished to know.
It's a true story that is easily relatable to anyone in this world who is figuring who they are and their purpose in life. It has an inspiring journey and is a great read. I recommend reading this.
An interesting and nicely written tale, well worth reading.
April 21, 2022
The author, husband and son (daughter couldn't go) Spring hike the Camino de Santiago trail from southern France to the Spanish coast. For each of them the adventure is a journey into how they relate to each other as well as other pilgrims, locals and the countryside. The idea of walking some 20 km each day brings its own challenges and pleasures. What to eat and where to stay and which local sights to see are all part of travel decisions. For the author she comes up against her own resentments and delves into her memories, many of her own upbringings, to create her own self-awareness of where she is at while on this awakening that is emotional as well as spiritual as to how she sees herself and the world around her.
May 7, 2019
I have often dreamed of walking the Camino but have pretty much given up the idea. I heard the author talk about her book. It was an interesting way to vicariously take the journey myself.
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