Comfort and Joy

by Lafia, Colette

• ISBN13: 9781573243513
• ISBN10: 1573243515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Conari Pr

Summary

Comfort and Joyis a small book that can engender big and welcomed changes in our lives and our attitude. It's a book to keep handy, to turn to again and again. Lafia offers forty-five vignettes-small stories, pictures of comfort as simple and grand as a plush pillow, a warm cup of tea. Simply reading them is comforting and more than likely to inspire the reader to follow the suggestions in "Cultivating Comfort," which follows each passage. And because she knows that comfort taken and comfort shared make the world a very much better place, in a section called "Applied Comfort," Lafia gives us inspiring ways to take comfort and pass it on. A simple and beautiful book with a profound message - learning to comfort ourselves is not a narcissistic pursuit - it's absolutely essential if we want to make any kind of real difference in the world. Colette Lafia is a San Francisco-based writer, spiritual director, and educator. She is a graduate of the Spiritual Directors' Institute, from Mercy Center, in Northern California. Colette has a passion for renewal and contemplative living, and served as the director of the C.A.R.E. (Center for Advancement and Renewal of Educators) program for San Francisco educators. She has an active spiritual direction practice in San Francisco, and regularly holds workshops and comfort circles on self care, deep listening and integrated living.