<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=32zBQD_0wC23NfX00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=32zBQD_0wC23NfX00" width="1662" height="1247" ><figcaption>Cleveland Jewish News Columnist Regina Brett, who Is a New York Times bestselling author, and David Gray, president of Gray and Company Publishing in Cleveland, collaborated on her newest book, “Little Detours and Spiritual Adventures: Inspiration for Times When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned.” Submitted photo</figcaption></figure>Cleveland Jewish News Columnist Regina Brett, who is a New York Times bestselling author, is back with her new book, “Little Detours and Spiritual Adventures: Inspiration for Times When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned.”Featuring 45 “guideposts,” the book is based on Brett’s experiences and those of guests from her podcast, “Little Detours with Regina Brett,” which ended in 2022 after Brett said she felt it was time to return to her true calling of writing.“I’ve always felt like my gift or my job or my one single talent in the world is to inspire people with my writing,” Brett, a Cleveland Heights resident, told the CJN. “It always gave me hope when I was a kid writing in my diary and I’ve always felt like writing is my one way to kind of like give people a bit of, I don’t know, clarity, direction, not really tell people what to do, but say, ‘Hey, if you’re stuck, these things might get you unstuck.’”She describes the book as a “compass” to help readers navigate life’s confusion and hardships, and is full of short, personal essays.“Some of my lessons, my chapters – they’re about other people who’ve been through things that I haven’t been through” Brett said. “But somebody out there has had that experience.”Brett’s first and favorite guidepost in the book is “Life Handed You a Winning Lottery Ticket.” She said many people carry wounds or dark secrets they try to hide, but these can often become their greatest gifts.“I think that we all have this,” Brett said. “When I had cancer, it looked like an awful thing and nobody wants to have cancer. And yet once you get through it, you meet people, and they give you hope, and you want to pass it on to the next person.”Rob Snow, a past podcast guest and comedian, shares his lesson, “If you only got what you wanted, you would sell yourself short,” reflecting on his firstborn son’s diagnosis with Down syndrome in 2009, she said. He used this detour to create a comedy club for individuals with Down syndrome to learn communication skills and find their voices.“That’s his lottery ticket,” Brett said. “His son was a great lottery ticket in life.”Another lesson featured in the book comes from Sophie Sureau, a survivor of the 2002 terrorist attack in Bali, Indonesia.“She survived a terrorist attack in Bali, a bombing, (and was) burned on all of her body,” Brett said. “She talks about when she was coming through the rubble, and she was all burned, and people were stepping on her. She said, ‘You know what, I’m going to survive. I’m going to choose to survive.’ And I think sometimes we just need to do that ... Sometimes that choice of surviving is the thing that kind of jump starts you to actually get busy living.”Brett compares her new book to her first, “God Never Blinks,” noting she had “all this writing inside” and felt it could help others facing struggles.“I read three newspapers, the Cleveland Jewish News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and it just seems like the headlines just overwhelm you with, I hate to say sadness and doom and gloom, but that’s what it feels like sometimes,” she said.“Little Detours and Spiritual Adventures” is published by David Gray at Gray and Company Publishing in Cleveland. This is Brett’s first collaboration with them and she considers it a “great fit.”“I felt like, let’s go local, let’s work with somebody that kind of values your life, too,” She said. “Like, I want to make sure I don’t lose too much time with my grandkids and be on some crazy schedule.”Brett said she hopes readers find comfort, strength and useful tools, tips and techniques in taking the right next step.“Ultimately, they can take what they’ve been through and their experience and put it out in the world to help that next person,” she said.The book’s release date is set for Nov. 14 and is priced at $17.95. The book is available for pre-order at $18.99 at shorturl.at/LQB9N.</div></body>

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Cleveland Jewish News Columnist Regina Brett, who is a New York Times bestselling author, is back with her new book, “Little Detours and Spiritual Adventures: Inspiration for Times When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned.”. Featuring 45 “guideposts,” the book is based on Brett’s experiences and those of guests...