Everyone wants the manual that describes the meaning of life. In ELIXIR: Womens Quest for Wholeness, authors Jessica Fleming and Misha Crosbie tell their stories with gut-wrenching honesty, revealing the nuggets and pearls of the life manual. Their riveting and entertaining individual stories explore the quest for the solution to wholeness through its acronym: Exit, Look, Inside, eXamine, Integrate, Return. This acronym illuminates each essential step on the path to wholeness, as well as the tools that help you fulfil that mythic quest. They include narratives of exciting, challenging circumstances; of being fuelled by knowingness and an intention; of deep inner and outer explorations toward facing fears; of self-examination, naked in the mirror of truth; of the healing process of witnessing and being witnessed to, gently integrating and finally culminating in their lives work. Fleming and Crosbie have discovered the elixir of wholenessthe symbol of lifeand they communicate that in ELIXIR: Womens Quest for Wholeness. Their shared philosophy and life wisdom will guide you through any storm and inspire you to evolve to the highest and the best you can be.

Everyone wants the manual that describes the meaning of life. In ELIXIR: Women's Quest for Wholeness, authors Jessica Fleming and Misha Crosbie tell their stories with gut-wrenching honesty, revealing the nuggets and pearls of the life manual. Their riveting and entertaining individual stories explore the quest for the solution to wholeness through its acronym: Exit, Look, Inside, eXamine, Integrate, Return. This acronym illuminates each essential step on the path to wholeness, as well as the tools that help you fulfil that mythic quest. They include narratives of exciting, challenging circumstances; of being fuelled by knowingness and an intention; of deep inner and outer explorations toward facing fears; of self-examination, naked in the mirror of truth; of the healing process of witnessing and being witnessed to, gently integrating and finally culminating in their lives' work. Fleming and Crosbie have discovered the elixir of wholeness--the symbol of life--and they communicate that in ELIXIR: Women's Quest for Wholeness. Their shared philosophy and life wisdom will guide you through any storm and inspire you to evolve to the highest and the best you can be.

The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing on cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture. This special anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Christine Downing and preface by the author, illuminates that this need is just as relevant today as it was when the book was originally published thirty years ago.

The second book in the Writer's Compass series from professional writing instructor Elizabeth Lyon offers both aspiring and established authors the fundamentals of writing and selling a great novel or short story. In addition to the basics of characterization, plot, pacing, and theme, A Writer's Guide to Fiction also features a plan for revising fiction, a guide to marketing, samples of cover and query letters, and methods of honing the writing craft.

Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child's lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness.

An honest autobiography of a courageous woman and social worker, who took an interest in the unpopular cause of helping incarcerated Jewish men re-enter society and made it her lifes passion. From that passion was born Beit TShuvah, a once tiny halfway house that has grown exponentially into a renowned treatment organization. Her voyage is remarkable and an inspiration to all people. This is the personal story of the obstacles she surmounted and the successes she encountered. This book also tells the unconventional love story of Harriet Rossetto and her husband, Rabbi Mark Borovitz.

Ever since I read Lynn Ungar's "Camas Lilies"—a poem that has touched the lives of thousands of people—I've hoped she would publish a collection of poetry. Bread and Other Miracles is a wish come true. These poems come from and speak to many dimensions of what it means to be human. But they have this in common: they take subtle, complex, and elusive experiences and make them accessible without diminishing the mystery. They give the reader a chance to walk around and into the miracles of everyday life, to dwell more deeply in self, other, nature, and spirit. Immerse yourself in this world of words and find yourself more deeply immersed in the world of your own life. —Parker J. Palmer (author of Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to Teach)