Finding Peace, 3rd Ed.: Letting Go and Liking It - Softcover

Coxe, Paula Peisner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402202490 ISBN 13: 9781402202490

Publisher: Sourcebooks, 2004

Synopsis

Peace of mind is a place where few reside. It is where you can trust more and worry less, compare yourself to no one, love and accept yourself, forgive the pain from the past and grow from your losses. Filled with carefully crafted thoughts, suggestions and uplifting quotes, Finding Peace asks you to contemplate how deeply you believe in these four affirmations, which form the foundation for inner peace:

• Faith: I find comfort and support in my beliefs.
• Other-directedness: I seek to understand rather than be understood.
• Loss: I have experienced loss in many ways. It has enriched my soul and softened my heart.

Finding Peace is for everyone looking to feel more comfortable with themselves and their situations.

About this title

About the Author

Paula Peisner Coxe was born in Los Angeles and educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Southern California. She is a management consultant and also the author of Finding Peace: Letting Go and Liking It and Finding Time: Breathing Space for Women Who Do Too Much. Paula lives and writes in southern California with her husband and two daughters.

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Quieting the noise in your mind. Accepting yourself and your life for what it is. Trusting more and worrying less. Comparing yourself to no one. Loving yourself. Fearing nothing. Forgiving the pain from the past. Letting your losses make you more human. To achieve this state of being is to reach a place where few reside and that many seek--a place called peace of mind.
It's the uncommon ability to deal with the world, your life, and the people in it with serenity and confidence. Occupied less with the need to control and more with the desire to accept, less with the longing to hold on and more with the need to let go, you begin to trust that all things happen for a reason, whether you know it at the time or not. You realize that all mistakes are lessons to be learned and that your pain in times of loss helps you to grow.
Loss touches all of our lives at one time or another. True and deep loss, the kind that tears your insides open and leaves you dry and unable to cry anymore, is, unfortunately, a necessary part of life. Loss spares no one. Loss makes you human. Loss is lessened with the passing of time. Faith
is what sees you through. Faith comforts while making room for peace.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402202490
• ISBN 13: 9781402202490
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 352