Description
Book SynopsisA practical, compassionate step-by-step guide to help women slow down and reconnect with their inner spiritual lives This gentle and practical guide will help women escape their to-do lists so that they can reconnect with the source of life and spirit-the deep river of their inner lives.
Trade Review"Seixas offers no quick fix or hollow slogans. Rather, she delivers carefully considered, gently explained, and tested tools for simplifying life via small but meaningful steps." --Boston Globe, October 2006
"Psychotherapist Abby Seixas ... won't tell you how to tick more items off your to-do list or find time for more activities. Instead, she counsels women to pare down their lives by learning to say no, quieting their inner perfectionists, and taking alone time every day. Seixas' program is a practical antidote to our culture's obsession with having--and doing--it all."--Ladies Home Journal Online
"If you can wait at a red light without applying makeup or practicing Italian verbs with a CD, this book is not for you. For the rest of us, Seixas has a message: Slow down!" --Brandeis University Magazine
Table of ContentsDeep River Exercises and Practices.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part One: Thirsting for the Deep River Realm.
1. The Disease of A-Thousand-Things-To-Do.
2. The Deep River Within.
3. Getting Started.
Part Two: Touching the Deep River: The Practices.
4. Take Time-In.
5. Make Boundaries.
6. Befriend Feelings.
7. Tame Self-Expectations.
8. Practice Presence.
9. Do Something You Love.
Part Three: Keeping the Deep River Flowing.
10. Beyond Self-Care.
Victory Log.
Notes.
Selected Reading.
The Author.
Index.
