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Subtitle: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play Recommended by: Aubrie De Clerck Maria Nemeth offers step-by-step instructions on how to move from a fog of confusion to living with “clarity, focus, ease, and grace.” I do want to live with clarity, focus, ease, and grace, but I didn’t start reading in a fog of confusion. [...] Recommended by: Rosalind Bell Linnie Thomas, from Tualatin, OR, has researched and described 65 different energy medicine modalities. She was inspired by her own difficulty in finding and choosing an energy medicine class. She is now a Healing Touch practitioner. About the author. Like most encyclopedias, this book is not meant to be read from cover [...] Subtitle: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions. This “un-self-help” book by a clinical psychologist shows how to stop fighting uncomfortable emotions and accept them with self-compassion instead. Step by step, Germer shows how to be kind to ourselves, listen to our bodies, and bring in difficult emotions. I liked his analysis of the stages of acceptance [...] My response to The Tao of Equus doesn’t begin to express the impact it had on me. I immediately looked for Kohanov’s next book. Riding Between the Worlds contains less abstract theory and more stories from clients and from her own life. It also contains a helpful adaptation of Karla McLaren’s work with emotions into [...] Subtitle: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life Recommended by: Shambhala Sun excerpt. Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher. This memoir is organized around three household tasks as metaphors for Zen living – laundry, dishes, and gardening. I enthusiastically agree with the premise that household maintenance is an integral part of life, rather than [...] Subtitle: A Woman’s Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse Recommended by: A client. Linda Kohanov and her herd of sensitive horses offer equine facilitated psychotherapy. Together they help both horses and humans recover from trauma, regain their balance, and treat each other with more respect. This many-layered book contains autobiography, horse stories, client [...] Subtitle: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott’s writing process seems reassuringly similar to my own, and seems to include just as much struggle. She advises us to write everything that comes to mind, and then later refine it into clarity and grace. A lot of the book is devoted to all the ways [...] Recommended by: Kim Hillis, PT If this book didn’t cost $70, I would be telling every client and practitioner to buy one right now. Both scientific and playful, it offers the latest research about understanding and healing chronic pain. The sensation of pain is the brain’s response to perceived threat. Until it is interpreted by the [...] Recommended by: a client. The opening scene drew me in immediately. Geneen Roth shows eighty women furious at her because she is not yet letting them eat their tomato soup at a retreat about food and mindfulness. A few women bravely share their process of connecting to old pain and realizing that their adult selves [...] Subtitle: The Absolutely Indispensable Next Step for Freeing Yourself from the Monster of the Mind Rick Carson’s prior book Taming Your Gremlin was transformative for me. “Simply notice” and “Play with options” have become touchstones in my own process. Based on the title and subtitle of this book, I had high expectations. Those expections would have been [...] |
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