Petite Retreats: Renewing Body, Mind, and Spirit without Leaving Home

Petite Retreats: Renewing Body, Mind, and Spirit without Leaving Home
Author: Anna Harding; Linda Mastro
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2006-12-22
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1462811043

If you were magically granted a gift of free time in your own home, how would you spend the gift? We invite you to experience a Petite Retreat. Petite Retreats: Renewing Body, Mind and Spirit without Leaving Home is an invitation to women of all ages. Restore your energy, spark your creativity and develop a practice of mindful living by learning how to create short, at-home retreats. Alone and in silence, you will foster a nurturing relationship with yourself and your home. Petite Retreats will help you live a more creative, healthy life by • transforming your home into a sacred space in which to relax, play and restore • identifying and removing obstacles that prevent you from taking time for yourself • designing retreats in categories such as creative play, self-care, entertainment, body movement, home projects and meditation

Petite Retreats

Petite Retreats
Author: Anna Harding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781425726645

If you were magically granted a gift of free time in your own home, how would you spend the gift? We invite you to experience a Petite Retreat. Petite Retreats: Renewing Body, Mind and Spirit without Leaving Home is an invitation to women of all ages. Restore your energy, spark your creativity and develop a practice of mindful living by learning how to create short, at-home retreats. Alone and in silence, you will foster a nurturing relationship with yourself and your home. Petite Retreats will help you live a more creative, healthy life by *transforming your home into a sacred space in which to relax, play and restore *identifying and removing obstacles that prevent you from taking time for yourself *designing retreats in categories such as creative play, self-care, entertainment, body movement, home projects and meditation

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2011-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307957330

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Group Spiritual Direction

Group Spiritual Direction
Author: Rose Mary Dougherty, S.S.N.D.
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1995
Genre: Church group work
ISBN: 1616436301

Samson and the Pirate Monks

Samson and the Pirate Monks
Author: Nate Larkin
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-02-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418577693

With no-holds-barred honesty and poignant storytelling, Nate Larkin introduces a model of community and friendship that is reinvigorating men's ministry across the country, a model he calls The Samson Society. Too many men see the biblical hero Samson as their model for manhood--a rugged individualist of the highest order. Yet, Samson's solitary successes were eventually overcome by moral weaknesses. Larkin, through the story of his own past and the stories of those in The Samson Society, offers a radical, refreshing alternative.

Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan

Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan
Author: J. Kim Penberthy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-11-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000281531

Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide provides user-friendly, empirically supported information about and answers to some of the most frequently encountered questions and dilemmas of human living, interactions, and emotions. With a mix of empirical data, humor, and personal insight, each chapter introduces the reader to a significant topic or question, including self-worth, anxiety, depression, relationships, personal development, loss, and death. Along with exercises that clients and therapists can use in daily practice, chapters feature personal stories and case studies, interwoven throughout with the authors’ unique intergenerational perspectives. Compassionate, engaging writing is balanced with a straightforward presentation of research data and practical strategies to help address issues via psychological, behavioral, contemplative, and movement-oriented exercises. Readers will learn how to look deeply at themselves and society, and to apply what has been learned over decades of research and clinical experience to enrich their lives and the lives of others.

The Sparrow

The Sparrow
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2008-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345510887

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today