Cravings: A Zen-inspired memoir about sensual pleasures, freedom from dark places, and living and eating with abandon - Softcover

Hennig, Wanda; Stevens, Anne; Murzyn, Debbi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996820507 ISBN 13: 9780996820509

Publisher: Say Yes Press, 2015

Synopsis

Did some link between infidelity, a blue movie, vegetables and Paris, France, sprout the seed of liberation? Or was it that “Aha” moment on a waterbed in a Mormon home in Pocatello? In Cravings, her Zen-inspired memoir about sensual pleasures, freedom from dark places, and living and eating with abandon, Wanda Hennig writes — wisely, hilariously and sometimes movingly — about sex and food; living for three-and-a-half years at the San Francisco Zen Center; moving solo from one continent to another; overcoming depression and social phobia. Also celibacy, orgasmic meditation and more. Many of the insights shared in this memoir-cum-self-help were gleaned while traveling: in South Africa, San Francisco and Oakland, Poland, Paris, Pocatello, Salt Lake City and elsewhere. But her book is, first and foremost, an “original, fun, real, sensitive, smart” and entertaining inner journey.

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About the Authors

Durban-born Wanda Hennig worked as an investigative, lifestyle and hard-news reporter and feature writer on newspapers in South Africa and as a feature writer and bureau chief for the South African edition of Cosmopolitan magazine (and editor of Cosmo Man) before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. She is is a widely published travel, food and lifestyle writer/photographer and a certified life coach with a niche focus on relationships and life transitions. As a writer, editor, photographer and communications professional, Wanda has notched up more than 25 years hands-on experience on consumer magazines and newspapers and in corporate and nonprofit communications, both in South Africa and the United States. Her first US green card job was as special features editor at Napa-based Appellation (Wine Country Living) magazine (which folded). She was Northern California editor of five editions of AgeWave's Get up and Go! (that got up and went). She was, for a time, editor of the San Francisco East Bay's Diablo magazine and later, editor of Black Diamond Living magazine (which folded). She was on the copy desk of the Oakland Tribune for a while and editor of San Francisco-based Bechtel's corporate magazine. She has contributed extensively to Oakland and Alameda magazines and contributes regularly to Cuisine Noir magazine, online and print editions. She also writes for examiner.com. Her public persona has long been her byline on stories covering a sweeping array of issues (for publications in the U.K., Hong Kong and Australia as well as South Africa and the U.S.). She is a former San Francisco Bay Area Travel Writes board member. She has post-graduate degrees in psychology and education from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Prior to becoming a journalist she worked in the university's psychology department as a graduate assistant and part-time lecturer. She has a graduate degree from the same university with majors in English literature and psychology and a minor in political science. She trained and certified as a co-active (life) coach at the Coaches Training Institute in California more than eight years ago. She has run workshops at the Buddhist Retreat Centre in Ixopo, South Africa. Her formal Zen practice includes three-and-a-half years spent as a resident (monk) at the San Francisco Zen Center. In Cravings: A Zen-inspired memoir about sensual pleasures, freedom from dark places, and living and eating with abandon, she draws on her writing, psychology, life coaching and Zen background.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Say Yes Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996820507
• ISBN 13: 9780996820509
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Murzyn Debbi, Chandler Pascale
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146
• Editor: Marwick Jo, Hrastar Kathy