Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide - Hardcover

Tyler, Bobbe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804011184 ISBN 13: 9780804011181

Publisher: Swallow Press, 2009

Synopsis

Winner of a da Vinci Eye Medal for Superior Cover Design
Shortlisted for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award’s Montaigne Medal


To dive deep into your inner life. To explore what matters most: wisdom, happiness, the pain of loss, self–accountability, aging, and more. Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide is a breathtakingly honest case study: a self-examination resulting in the discovery of a meaningful life.

Bobbe Tyler blends her story with in-depth commentary, framing each chapter as a response to one of a set of questions, appended to the book, entitled The Harvesting Wisdom Interview. In her search for fulfillment, Tyler asks and answers the most difficult questions about the trauma of mental illness, divorce, financial and emotional despair. The rewards of this hard–won wisdom belong not to her alone but by way of her unflinching examination of life’s many paths, dead ends, and circuitous routes ― to anyone who has faced a life–choice gone wrong ― or known the indescribable recovery from addiction or abuse, or longed for the peace that seems just out of reach. This searing self–appraisal provides hope and fellowship for those who seek to know themselves better.

About this title

About the Author:

Bobbe Tyler is a nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator who worked for several corporations including Lucasfilm, Ltd. and the Times Mirror Company. She lives in California.

Review:

“Though our lives and hearts are often fraught, each page of Bobbe Tyler’s book offers some new invitation to grow our appreciation and gratitude for the ungraspable, nitty–gritty miracle of being a human being. The insights she shares with us about relationships, regrets, losses, the joys of finding oneself―all the stuff that life is made of―ring true in the convincing language of an individual who has won her authenticity and learned that life, just as it is, is so much more than she―or we―can ever imagine.”
― James Finley, clinical psychologist and author of Merton’s Palace of Nowhere and The Contemplative Heart

“Bobbe Tyler has taken a deeply considered, thoroughly honest look into her own cul–de–sacs―painful transitions that finally released the reality of her soul. Her readers will find themselves asking questions about their own life patterns... A compelling journey written in depth with intelligence and infinite love.“
― Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst, author of Bone: Dying into Life

“Bobbe Tyler’s book is without a doubt the most thought-provoking read of the decade. Dense in wisdom and profound in understanding, Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide leaves you a more enlightened, authentic human being. Tyler’s language is rich and her revelations personally haunting. For those of us who ask the profound questions―but move on before we find or look for the answers―Tyler provides us with the insights we’ve been seeking.”
― Madelyn Cain, USC Master of Professional Writing Program faculty, author of The Childless Revolution: What It Means to Be Childless Today

“(A)n intricate, exquisite and deeply moving account looking backward and examining all the slings and arrows of her life. It is positive, healing, upbeat and uplifting―but with a deep, melancholic twist―for a life lived well, but sometimes not well enough....”
― PsychCentral

About this edition

• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0804011184
• ISBN 13: 9780804011181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248