A new approach to using walking to heal emotional trauma and bring forth optimal mental functioning • Explores why and how we carry emotional wounds, and how they can be healed and resolved • Shows how walking stimulates both sides of the brain to promote and restore mental health • Provides simple, yet potent, mental exercises to use while walking Our bodies usually heal rapidly from an illness, injury, or wound. Yet our minds and hearts often suffer for years with debilitating symptoms of distress or upset. Why is it so hard for our minds and hearts to heal? The key to healing them is simple and can be just a short walk away. Walking--a bilateral therapy that has been a part of human life throughout history--allows people to heal emotionally as quickly as they do physically. Bilateral therapies engage both sides of the brain and unlock natural states of optimal function and creativity. Thom Hartmann examines how memory works and why emotional shock can resist normal healing. He found that the simple act of walking is effective in treating emotional disturbances ranging from temporary upsets and problems to chronic conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Case studies have shown dramatic results. Walking consciously, while holding a distress or desire in mind, can rapidly dissolve the rigidity of a traumatic memory or negative mind state, dispersing its unpleasant associations in as little as a half hour’s time. While walking has always been a natural part of life, its importance in promoting and maintaining mental health is only recently being rediscovered. Hartmann’s simple yet potent exercises allow us to create our own walking journeys to restore our mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being as well as rejuvenate our body’s health.

You did it. You walked the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. Whether you started in St. Jean, Roncesvalles, Sarria, or from your own front door, you made the epic journey.Now what?The real camino begins after you arrive in Santiago, when you take your experience home with you. There's never been a guidebook for the re-entry process, to ease the transition into your daily life. Until now.How will you integrate what you learned about yourself and the world around you? How will you keep the spirit of the camino alive in your daily life?After the Camino shows you how.After the Camino serves as a roadmap to keep the momentum going after you leave Santiago. The exercises, contemplations, and suggestions will help you avoid returning to the old habits, patterns, and routines of your pre-camino life. You'll discover how to: ¿Simplify your life¿Minimize post-camino blues¿Let go of outdated beliefs and behaviors¿Add more meaning to your day¿Tap into the real source of personal fulfillment and daily satisfaction¿Integrate the pilgrim way into your daily lifeThe camino isn't something you do to check off a bucket list and return to your life as if nothing happened. Something did happen. The person who started the camino is no longer the same person who finished it. This book is for that new version of you.Jumping back into your normal life like you would after a vacation may not feel good or authentic now. Immediate action is required so your external environment at home can support your new internal state.After the Camino is designed to be revisited often, whenever the post-camino blues start to creep in. Carry it with you in your pocket or purse and open it at random to remind you of your camino experience and inspire you to continue the journey at home.

Foods along St. James Way in Northern Spain

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soak up the sun—and the intrigue—with the first novel in John Grisham’s beloved Camino series. “A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt periodically jolted into high gear, just for the fun and speed of it.”—The New York Times Book Review A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets. But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it. Look for all of John Grisham’s rollicking Camino novels: Camino Island Camino Winds Camino Ghosts

I'm Off Then has sold more than three million copies in Germany and has been translated into eleven languages. The number of pilgrims along the Camino has increased by 20 percent since the book was published. Hape Kerkeling's spiritual journey has struck a chord. Overweight, overworked, and disenchanted, Kerkeling was an unlikely candidate to make the arduous pilgrimage across the Pyrenees to the Spanish shrine of St. James, a 1,200-year-old journey undertaken by nearly 100,000 people every year. But he decided to get off the couch and do it anyway. Lonely and searching for meaning along the way, he began the journal that turned into this utterly frank, engaging book. Filled with unforgettable characters, historic landscapes, and Kerkeling's self-deprecating humor, I'm Off Then is an inspiring travelogue, a publishing phenomenon, and a spiritual journey unlike any other.

Experience the powerful prose and poetry of Joyce Rupp with the beautiful full-color art of Mary Southard.