The Life That Love Builds: How to Come Home to Yourself by Letting Go of Normal

Answering the Call of Our Times

The Life That Love Builds: How to Come Home to Yourself by Letting Go of Normal weaves together vulnerable storytelling, wisdom teachings, and social commentary as a guide for those who long to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life rooted in integrity, healthy relationships, and deeper connection to ourselves and the world around us.

We are in the midst of a profound paradigm shift. The world order we’ve grown accustomed to is rooted in fear, scarcity, and control, but what we’ve socially accepted as "normal" is not serving us on an individual or collective level. We strive to achieve an ideal that will make us look and feel like we’re a success, yet many of us are burdened by tremendous stress and physical, mental, and emotional pain. Despite all our efforts, we’re not happy. It’s in recognition of this suffering that Jeni has created a new story.

Through her own experiences, Jeni invites us to cultivate curiosity and introspection as we take the next courageous steps in our own personal transformation. With raw honesty, she lays bare the many painful challenges we face throughout our lives: loneliness, anxiety, grief, addiction, depression, childhood trauma, betrayal, unworthiness . . . and offers a spiritual template as well as practices and techniques that can support our journey toward wholeness, contentment, and our highest creative potential.

Reclaiming our authenticity and living from that space offer not only profound healing but also profound joy. By recognizing our intrinsic worth and building trust in our intuitive wisdom, we can begin to live in alignment with our core values and learn to delight in our natural personality, with all of its quirks and foibles and paradoxes. We are all both/and—messy, complex, perfectly imperfect human beings.

Authenticity takes courage. Luckily, we are not alone. An unfathomable love—the antidote to fear—has been patiently waiting for our longing to return home. When we finally let go of “normal,” love builds us a life more exquisite than our wildest dreams.

Jeni is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, podcast host of Tending to Change with Jeni Juarez, a mother of four, and a dedicated student on the path of the heart. She offers public classes as well as personal sessions designed to inspire and empower others to reclaim their wholeness and sovereignty, for the benefit of all beings. She is excited to be actively working to bring forth the value of emotional resilience and peace of mind. Learn more about her offerings at www.jenijuarez.com

Parvati Markus is the author of Whisper in the Heart: The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba and Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed. She is the co-author of a children's book, Isabella Castaspella: The Happy Little Witch and Her Friends, with Radha Baum. Parvati has been "midwifing" spiritual nonfiction books as a developmental editor and writer since Ram Dass's classic Be Here Now. She is a former president of the board of the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Temple and a former development consultant for the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, held at the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland, and is on the Advisory Board of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles.