Searching for Soul : A Survivor's Guide

by Tyler, Bobbe

• ISBN13: 9780804011198
• ISBN10: 0804011192
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

To dive deep into your inner life. To navigate its complexity and explore your story in depth. To discover who you are exactly-the courage you have when life breaks apart, how conscious you become in that process, and how rich you feel learning the meaning of your life. On a search for wholeness, Bobbe Tyler delves deep to find and tell her story-the trauma of familial mental illness, marriage and divorce, spiritual despair, accountability, addiction and the joy of recovery, surviving loss, and finally that which matters most: love in all its ways. The rewards of her wisdom belong not to her alone but, by way of her unflinching examination of life's many paths, to all who have a story of their own to tell-who have faced a life-choice gone wrong, or met the peace that had always seemed just out of reach. This searing self-appraisal provides a model for those who seek to know themselves better and are willing to sound their depths to find their story in full. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bobbe Tyler is a nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator who worked for several corporations including Lucasfilm, Ltd. and the Times Mirror Company. She lives in Cambria, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
What Do You Mean?	p. 1
Success as Other than It Seems	p. 13
Life's Labor, Mindfully	p. 28
Relationships: Anything but Easy	p. 45
Friendship: The Best of All the 'Ships	p. 56
How Much Do I Owe?	p. 70
The Happiest People I Know Raise a Glass Half Full	p. 84
Wisdom: What Is It? And More...	p. 99
Growing Older: Age Giveth and Taketh Away	p. 114
Lose Some and Win Some	p. 127
Control-Ego's Stage Name	p. 142
Advice Be Damned!	p. 156
Regrets? None but One...	p. 171
Turn, Turn, Turn	p. 184
The Not Immortal Coil	p. 196
Death: More a Perception Than an Experience	p. 205
Searching for Soul in the Cul-de-Sacs	p. 220
Appendix: The Harvesting Wisdom Interview	p. 237
Notes	p. 241
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