Something More Excavating Your Authentic Self

by Breathnach, Sarah Ban

• ISBN13: 9780446677080
• ISBN10: 0446677086
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Our Authentic Lives	1	(16)
Our Authentic Lives	3	(3)
Surprised by Joy	6	(2)
When the Student Is Ready	8	(4)
Something More: A Site Map	12	(5)
Romancing the Soul	17	(18)
Facing Your Future by Excavating Your Past	19	(3)
The Book of Love	22	(5)
Small Things Forgotten	27	(2)
The Authentic Dig	29	(1)
The Chain of Chance	30	(2)
Suddenly-Seen Things	32	(3)
Starting Over	35	(32)
The Sacred Adventure	37	(1)
A Tale of Two Lives	38	(1)
Starting Over	39	(1)
Designing Women	40	(5)
Starting from Scratch	45	(1)
A Continuous Thread of Revelation	46	(4)
Back to the Beginning	50	(1)
Having It All	51	(3)
Divine Discontent	54	(3)
The Mortal Wound	57	(1)
Being Willing to Live for the Last Time	58	(2)
Introducing Your Life	60	(2)
Claiming the Events of Your Life	62	(2)
Field World: Discovery and Explanation	64	(2)
Site Report	66	(1)
Surviving	67	(44)
Near-Life Experiences	69	(3)
Keeping Body and Soul Together	72	(2)
The Realm of the Unspeakable	74	(3)
The Silent Hemorrhaging of the Soul	77	(4)
Looking-Glass Shame	81	(3)
Our Pilgrimage Places	84	(5)
Your Own Natural Selection Process	89	(1)
Smoke-and-Mirror Survival	90	(4)
Survival by Surrender	94	(5)
Survival by Substitution	99	(3)
When Survival Is Called Success	102	(5)
Field World: Authentic Success	107	(1)
Site Report	108	(1)
Field Work: Authentic Style	109	(1)
Site Report	110	(1)
Settling	111	(62)
O Pioneer	113	(1)
Settling Down	114	(1)
Speak new Forever Hold Your Peace	115	(2)
Two for the Road	117	(1)
More Married Than Happy	118	(4)
Seeing Is Believing	122	(4)
A Crime Against Nature	126	(5)
Can This Marriage Be Saved?	131	(3)
Imagine You Don't Know Me	134	(6)
There Are Only two Stories Worth Telling	140	(3)
A Lover Both Ancient and New	143	(1)
The Soul's Duty	144	(2)
Self-Immolation	146	(5)
Time Out	151	(2)
Settling For	153	(4)
Settling for the Sizzle	157	(2)
No One to Fear but Yourself	159	(4)
The Other Side of Scared	163	(3)
Field Work: The Return to Self	166	(3)
Site Report	169	(1)
Field Work: Mystery	170	(1)
Site Report	171	(2)
Stumbling	173	(48)
The Wilderness	175	(2)
Braveheart	177	(6)
Destiny's Darlings	183	(3)
Two Ways to Live	186	(4)
The Devine Collaboration	190	(2)
Taking Liberties	192	(3)
Crossing the Threshold	195	(3)
A Woman of a Certain Age	198	(4)
Women's Work	202	(3)
Work with Me	205	(1)
Little Miss Perfect	206	(3)
Constant Craving	209	(4)
Field Work: Your Spiritual Journey	213	(3)
Site Report	216	(1)
Field Work: Some Day	217	(2)
Site Report	219	(2)
Shattered	221	(48)
The House of Belonging	223	(6)
Dwelling in the House of Spirit	229	(2)
Home Is Where Your Heart Is	231	(3)
A Victim of Circumstances	234	(2)
A Life of One's Own	236	(7)
The Hour of Lead	243	(6)
Making the Best of it	249	(4)
Giving Sorrow Words	253	(6)
Life After Loss	259	(1)
Sacramental Possibilities	260	(5)
Field Work: The House of Belonging	265	(2)
Site Report	267	(2)
Sensing	269	(36)
Sensing That There's Something More	271	(2)
Making the Connection	273	(1)
The Sentient Soul	274	(1)
The Secret Language of the Soul	275	(2)
Making Sense of It All	277	(2)
A Woman with a Past	279	(1)
The Great Escape	280	(1)
Hide-and-Seek	281	(2)
Bad Men	283	(1)
Even Bad Men Bring Gifts	284	(2)
It's the Though That Counts	286	(1)
Earthly Tutorials	287	(4)
Becoming a Woman with a Past	291	(2)
The Holy Longing	293	(1)
The Karmic Clock	294	(3)
The Essential Union	297	(2)
Field Work: Relationships	299	(1)
Site Report	300	(1)
Field Work: Entertainment	301	(1)
Site Report	302	(3)
Something More	305	(22)
The Queen of Sheba	307	(5)
Soul Mates	312	(3)
The One Who Loves Your Pilgrim Soul	315	(3)
To Know and Be Known	318	(2)
The Heart Grown Brutal	320	(3)
Something More	323	(4)
With Thanks and Appreciation	327	(8)
Selected Bibliography	335	(6)
Index	341	(10)
For Further Information	351	(2)
About the Author	353