Flying Lessons: How to Be the Pilot of Your Own Life

Flying Lessons is an inspirational manual for leading, living, and loving with passion and joy. It is a seven-step journey that helps anyone break free of the "gravity" if old limits and recognize one's power to soar-without even leaving the ground. Pamela uses seven stories from her own private pilot lessons to draw the metaphor between flying and life. A multilayered creative work, Flying Lessons is augmented by Pam's stunning aerial photos, which enhance the ancient and classic metaphor of flight. Each lesson corresponds with a chakra, a yoga pose, and an archetype, so the manual works as a course for readers on all levels of body, mind, and spirit. From the "dipstick" that helps flyers manage their energy, to the story of how the flying lessons helped Pam in her cancer journey, Flying Lessons is a practical and entertaining journey into authentic power, freedom, and fulfillment. It tied for the IPPY (Independent and Small Press) gold medal for best self-help book of 2012, was a Top 12 pick on theSpiritedWomen.com, and won an honorable mention in the Southwest Book Festival.

Pamela Hale, MA, creates powerful, practical tools and experiences that focus vision, creativity, and wisdom to help people flourish and thrive. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, she has created a unique body of work woven together from experiences as a teacher, life coach, spiritual director, photographer, fundraiser, consultant to nonprofits, and shamanic practitioner. Creator of the Sand Spirits Insight Cards, workbook, and certification trainings, she was a pioneer in the therapeutic photography movement. She offers workshops, retreats, private and organizational consultations, and leadership seminars for women. The Flying Lessons process was inspired by her challenges in becoming a private pilot in her late fifties and by the way in which the lessons helped her navigate her cancer journey and helped her clients. She teaches Flying Lessons in the form of keynotes, workshops, Internet offerings, exhibits, and retreats.