A Field Guide For Incoming Spirits: Conversations About Being Human - Softcover

De Vries, Ardeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1952194466 ISBN 13: 9781952194467

Publisher: River Sanctuary Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

This life is all about choices and lessons. In A Field Guide for Incoming Spirits: Conversations About Being Human, seasoned author and educator Ardeth DeVries engages the reader in a series of conversations about why sometimes it's so difficult to live a life as a human being. Thoughts are offered about what contributes to the difficulties, and suggestions are made about what we can do to become more successful human beings. Topics of conversation include relationships, dreams, feelings and emotions, time, aging and death.

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About the Author

During the course of her forty-six year teaching career Ardeth De Vries has taught high school, college, university, and adult education classes. She has offered seminars and workshops for hospitals, hospice personnel, and the general public on a variety of topics ranging from literature, psychology, spirituality, dreams, self-esteem, death/dying and animal welfare. As an animal welfare advocate, Ardeth's work with animals includes: walking dogs and spending time with cats at a local animal shelter, fifty years of rescuing abused and neglected dogs, the operation of a nonprofit organization created to assist local residents with veterinary expenses for their companion animals, and serving as end-of-life consultant, animal loss counselor, newsletter editor, writer, blog mistress, Board president, and Executive Director for Old Dog Haven, a nonprofit organization that offers hospice care, assisted living and placement assistance for unadoptable senior dogs in western Washington. Ardeth lives in Coupeville Washington with her partner and current family of five senior rescue dogs. A percentage of all proceeds earned by the author from this book (or any book she's written) are donated to animal welfare organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: River Sanctuary Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1952194466
• ISBN 13: 9781952194467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192