Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman's Guide to Recovering Balance And Meaning in Everyday Life - Hardcover

Abby Seixas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787980978 ISBN 13: 9780787980979

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2006

Synopsis

For over two decades, Abby Seixas has taught women how to slow down and reclaim their lives from the tyranny of their to-do lists. Based on the experiences of women whose lives have been transformed by her workshops, this highly anticipated first book presents her comprehensive program to nurture contact with the Deep River Within, the soul-nourishing dimension in each of us that flows beneath the busyness of daily life.  With gentle encouragement, practical guidance, and compelling stories of struggle and success, Finding the Deep River Within details the three preliminary doorways and six core practices for inviting the rich resources of our deeper nature into everyday life.

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About the Author

ABBY SEIXAS has been a psychotherapist in private practice for over twenty-five years, working as a consultant and clinical psychotherapy supervisor at training centers in the United States and abroad, including England, the Netherlands, and Russia. For the last twelve years, her work has focused on helping women learn and practice the art of slowing down through public talks, retreats, workshops, individual coaching, and her popular Touching the Deep River groups. She is the mother of two grown children and lives with her husband near Boston, Massachusetts.

From the Back Cover

"Finding the Deep River Within holds the key to lasting health and sustainable joy."
CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D., author, Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

"In Finding the Deep River Within, Abby Seixas gives us a wisdom-filled recipe for living a soulful life. This is a book for Everywoman, at least every woman living in our nonstop, do-it-all culture. There is not a woman I know who wouldn't benefit from this valuable book."
JACK CANFIELD, cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series; coauthor, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

"Finding the Deep River Within is that rarity a book that is at once poetic and pragmatic. It offers the keys to discovering your inner kingdom a world that is wise yet lyrical. Abby Seixas is a grounded writer who offers a toolkit that is as deep and calm in experience as the listening heart she urges her readers to discover."
JULIA CAMERON, author, The Artist's Way

"In this beautifully written and profound book, Abby Seixas shows us step-by-step how to save our own lives. Her wise and simple suggestions and exercises will rekindle the power within you and free you to live your best life. Finding the Deep River Within is about reclaiming your birthright as a living soul and becoming a light to the world. You owe it to yourself and to those who love you to read this book more than once."
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN, M.D., author, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings

From the Inside Flap

"Today's women don't need more time management skills to help them pack even more into their already over-packed schedules. They need tools to help them put on the brakes, gather themselves, and remember what really matters." ?Abby Seixas

For over two decades, Abby Seixas has taught women how to slow down and reclaim their lives from the tyranny of their to-do lists. Based on the experiences of women whose lives have been transformed by her workshops, this highly anticipated first book presents her comprehensive program to nurture contact with the Deep River within, the soul-nourishing dimension in each of us that flows beneath the busyness of daily life. With gentle encouragement, practical guidance, and compelling stories of struggle and success, Finding the Deep River Within details the three preliminary doorways and six core practices for inviting the rich resources of our deeper nature into everyday life.

Skillfully weaving together time-honored spiritual wisdom and contemporary psychological principles, Seixas gives her readers a highly accessible program for bringing sanity and soul back into daily life.

Whether you read this book and do the guided exercises by yourself, with a friend, or in a women's circle or book group, Finding the Deep River Within will provide both the inspiration and the needed skills for balanced living in a hurried world.

Reviews

Between family, professional work, housework, working out, e-mail and the simple essentials like bathing, eating and even sleeping, there is always too much to do. Readers who identify with the above and lament their lack of time will find themselves engrossed within the first few pages of this spiritual self-help title, as Seixas describes with candor and personal experience the unhappy life situation so many women face today. A psychotherapist by profession and founder of Deep River seminars, Seixas outlines the steps for slowing down in today's world by drawing from case studies in her work, outlining the basic spiritual principles of her seminars and providing a range of helpful, easy exercises for readers to practice. Getting to the spiritual within is not easy in a culture that favors multitasking, endless activity and the pressure to strive for perfection, but Seixas advocates what she calls "dropping down" as key to this process, which involves "moving from a more outward focus at the surface of our lives, to a more inward focus deep within ourselves." Seixas's accessible prose and the slow, lasting journey she advocates are welcome in light of the many self-help books that teach us to snatch moments of rest while still keeping on the go, go, go. (Sept.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787980978
• ISBN 13: 9780787980979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229