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Something more : excavating your authentic self / Sarah Ban Breathnach.

LIBRA BL625.7 .B353 1998
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ban Breathnach, Sarah.
Contributor:
Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Spiritual life.
Women--Religious life.
Women.
Self-realization--Religious aspects.
Self-realization.
Medical Subjects:
Spiritual life.
Women--Religious life.
Physical Description:
xi, 352 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Warner Books, ©1998.
Summary:
You may have a beautiful home, a family you adore, and work that you enjoy. But why do you secretly sense that you need something more to be truly happy? Because it's true. In this book, Sarah Ban Breathnach encourages you to become an archaeologist of your Self---to plumb your past with its unfulfilled longings, forgotten pleasures, and abandoned dreams, to 'excavate' the authentic woman buried inside. Uncovering your authentic self will be challenging---but exhilarating. Assisting your personal 'dig' will be hints and prompts from the lives of both celebrated and unknown women. These, in tandem with Sarah's own insights, will help you unravel your own mystery and recover the joy that has been missing from your life. Along the way, you will experience small but exquisite epiphanies that will help you come to terms with your past choices and reveal exciting new opportunities that lead to your destiny.
Contents:
Our authentic lives
Surprised by joy
When the student Is ready
Something more: a site map.
Romancing the soul
Facing your future by excavating your past
The book of love
Small things forgotten
The authentic dig
The chain of chance
Suddenly-seen things.
Starting Over
The sacred adventure
A tale of two lives
Starting over
Designing women
Starting from scratch
A continuous thread of revelation
Back to the beginning
Having it all
Divine discontent
The mortal wound
Being willing to live for the last time
Introducing your life
Claiming the events of your life
Field work: discovery and explanation
Site report.
Surviving
Near-life experiences
Keeping body and soul together
The realm of the unspeakable
The silent hemorrhaging of the soul
Looking-glass shame
Our pilgrimage places
Your own natural selection process
Smoke-and-mirror survival
Survival by surrender
Survival by substitution
When survival is called success
Field work: authentic success
Site report
Field work: authentic style
Settling
O pioneer
Settling down
Speak now or forever hold your peace
Two for the road
More married than happy
Seeing Is believing
A crime against nature
Can this marriage be saved?
Imagine you don't know me
There are only two stories worth telling
A lover both ancient and new
The soul's duty
Self-immolation
Time out
Settling for
Settling for the sizzle
No one to fear but yourself
The other side of scared
Field work: the return to self
Field work: mystery site report.
Stumbling
The wilderness
Braveheart
Destiny's darlings
Two ways to live
The divine collaboration
Taking liberties
Crossing the threshold
A woman of a certain age
Women's work
Work with me
Little Miss Perfect
Constant craving
Field work: your spiritual journey
Field work: some day
Shattered
The house of belonging
Dwelling in the house of spirit
Home is where your heart is
A victim of circumstances
A life of one's own
The hour of lead
Making the best of it
Giving sorrow words
Life after loss
Sacramental possibilities
Field work: the house of belonging
Sensing
Sensing that there's something more
Making the connection
The sentient soul
The secret language of the soul
Making sense of it all
A woman with a past
The great escape
Hide-and-seek
Bad men
Even bad men bring gifts
It's the thought that counts
Earthly tutorials
Becoming a woman with a fast
The holy longing
The karmic clock
The essential union
Field work: relationships
Field work: entertainment
Something more
The Queen of Sheba
Soul mates
The one who loves your pilgrim soul
To know and be known
The heart grown brutal
Something more.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.
Local Notes:
Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
ISBN:
0446524131
9780446524131
0553812602
9780553812602
0446677086
9780446677080
OCLC:
39335367

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