Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self - Softcover

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446677086 ISBN 13: 9780446677080

Publisher: Time Warner International, 2000

Synopsis

From the author of the bestselling -Simple Abundance- comes a provocative and powerful life -bible- for women around the world. In this insightful and eloquent book, Sarah Ban Breathnach explores the nine stages necessary to living authentically: Sensing, Surviving, Settling, Stumbling, Selling Out, Starting Over, Searching, Striving, and finally, Something More.

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Review:

From the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy comes a guided excavation for women who suspect that there's something more to life than the top layer pursuits of money, sex, and love. In service to these restless souls who want to scratch beneath the surface, Ban Breathnach offers titbit-sized essays that help women unearth pay dirt--their reason for being. Using archaeology as her frame of reference, Ban Breathnach suggests imaginative exercises at the end of each chapter, which she refers to as "Field Work." Although it occasionally feels overdone, the archaeology metaphor works well--helping readers unearth their past choices and circumstances to better understand the soul's current mission. Early in the book, Ban Breathnach offers this enticing invitation to go on a spiritual dig: "Besides the fact that your soul is one of the last unlooted sources of the miraculous, with discoveries as spectacular as any found in the Delta of Venus or Egypt's Valley of the Kings, you can embark on a soul trip and be back before anyone even notices you're missing. They might be curious about that gleam in your eye and that flush on your cheek, but I'll never tell if you won't. Are you game? We're heading to the sacred site of your soul". --Gail Hudson

From the Back Cover:

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.

The wisdom, warmth, compassion and disarming candour of Simple Abundance have made Sarah Ban Breathnach a trusted voice to millions of women. Now, Sarah invites you on a bold, brave and beautiful continuation of the journey to authenticity, the search for...

SOMETHING MORE

In this eloquent and evocative 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.

Dare to begin the journey. Within these pages lie powerful truths that can change your life...and inspire you to settle for nothing less than Something More.

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Warner International
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0446677086
• ISBN 13: 9780446677080
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368