With all the focus on Soledad O’Brien these days, it’s only fair to mention the fact that her fellow CNN journalista, half Puerto Rican Jane Velez-Mitchell, recently released her second book. Velez-Mitchell, who is host of her own Headline News show, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, released her first nonfiction book, Secrets Can Be Murder: What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves, back in June 2008. As someone who has covered high-profile criminal cases for most of her career, including Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial, she knows a thing or two about the subject. Now the veteran TV journalist and nationally recognized addiction and recovery expert is back with iWant: My Journey from Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life (HCI), about her struggle with alcohol and nicotine, among other things, and her search for a balanced life centered around spiritual enlightenment.

Says Velez-Mitchell:

“This is the story of my changes, which took me from insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism. These changes have marked an evolution in what I want from this life. I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof. I am happy to say that what I want today is much less toxic and self-centered than what I used to want. It's taken decades of self-examination to peel back the layers and figure out what really makes me happy. And while I'm still searching for my ultimate bliss, I know for sure it's not what I once thought it was. It's not alcohol, cigarettes, money, food, sugar, or status symbols: I've consumed all of those in massive quantities, and they've just made me miserable. Now, I want what can't be tasted, smoked, worn, seen, or counted. It's the opposite of material. As sappy as it might sound, what I want is spiritual.”