As a long-time meditator, wellness expert, and founder of a women’s adventure travel business, I am always grateful to discover books that offer insights about enhancing well-being. In my own book, Get Lost: Seven Principles for Trekking Life with Grace and Other Life Lessons from Kick-Ass Women’s Adventure Travel, I share personal stories of transformation that I and my fellow travelers have experienced on trips that include rituals to help us bond and express our authentic selves. Scientific evidence shows that connecting with others and practicing mindfulness are essential for a full, healthy life, and I loved recently sharing this message with students in the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University.
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Get Lost: Seven Principles for Trekking Life with Grace and Other Life Lessons from Kick-Ass Women's Adventure Travel
Wellness expert and founder of Sports Travel Adventure Therapy (STAT), ErinLeider-Pariser has led over fifty STAT trips on all seven continents, facilitatinglife-changing experiences for more than five hundred women. This inspiring volumeincludes her Seven Principles for Trekking Life with Grace, a set of golden rules fornavigating toward your best self.
Complete with advice for forming your own group traveladventures on any budget, this energizing and at times hilarious book invites women toignite their adventurous spirit, whether through travels near or far or taking bold new stepstoward their dreams. Through stories and anecdotes, the reader will witness how women’stravel is soulful, flipped-out, hysterical fun—an absolute necessity for travel and everydaylife.
Rick Ruben is a genius at his work, but this book speaks to the genius in all of us.
We are all artists, and we are all creating our lives. He reminds us every day to embrace what we already have by not wanting more. The pages flew out at me as I had to earmark most of them. His poetic words inspired me to live my life more authentically and with greater pleasure to spread the word to all.
Just this quote alone: “Art is choosing to do something skillfully, caring about the details, bringing all of yourself to make the finest work you can. It is beyond ego, vanity, self-glorification, and need for approval.”
This is the message for all mindfulness practices, and it totally resonates with me. Rick certainly treks life with grace as I explore in my book.
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.
"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment.” —Anne Lamott
“I set out to write a book about what to do to make a…
This book is an exercise in how to lead a more meaningful life in the way you gather. It hastotally changed the way I host people in my home and how I contribute to a get togetheranywhere.
Just asking guests to perform a task is an attempt to get them in the mood tosocialize on a deeper level. It reinforces my ceremonial talking stick ceremony that I perform when I travel with a group by asking them to bring something from home thatrepresents what they are manifesting in life. It’s a powerful tool.
Priya outlines all the waysyou can empower your social/business gatherings with simple ideas. I’ve already used hersharing techniques and it has shifted everything for the better. Gathering well isn’t a chillactivity. You must make an effort to ask for Grace. Try it.
"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED
From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond.
In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when…
I was gifted this book recently and it is the gift that keeps on giving.
I am an avid walkerand the way the author interspersed poignant life stories with his own on walking waslovingly poetic. This quote “the walker is king, and the earth is his domain” is the one thatdefines the entire message of the book. I’ve been on many pilgrimages in life and witnessedmany a transformation but none like the ones these philosophers uncover.
It was a joy toread the profound messages in staying present while walking as exercise. Grab a friend andenjoy walking together as you put one foot in front of the other and have meaningfulconversation.
It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth. - Nietzsche
By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life.
In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frederic Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B-the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble-and reveals what they say…
The is a bestseller for a reason. It's a story of friendship, but more importantly it’s a lovestory as the characters weave their lives together through lots of hardship. The messageappeals to me in a big way because I’m all about connections and how we connect in ameaningful way.
In this book, connections are made through a disability and their shared artistic ability. It’sthe genuine authentic way in which they navigate through life together that you willappreciate, and that will move you toward a more compassionate and implement it into yourown life.
We all have fears (a disability), big and small, and it’s the way we interact withthem that makes us stronger humans. Again, a mindfulness practice in reading between thelines here in this beautifully written book.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest, examining identity, creativity and our need to connect.
This is not a romance, but it is about love.
'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok
Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is…
Brené is a master at being vulnerable, and she teaches us to connect with our vulnerabilityin order to live an authentic life.
There’s nothing like sharing your most vulnerablemoments with others to uncover that everyone has them. Peeling away layers helps us getto the core of who we are. She is living proof that practicing what you preach reaps far-reaching benefits. Early on in my career, I was searching for purpose, and I foundit in being vulnerable and sharing my vulnerability with others, only to discover that it setsyou free.
Brene will convince you that daring greatly is not about winning or losing butabout courage. I love taking people out of their comfort zones on travelling to exotic andout-of-this-world places that make you feel your insignificance. It takes courage to takethis creative path without psychedelics, but that’s a whole other conversation.
'She's so good, Brene Brown, at finding the language to articulate collective feeling' Dolly Alderton
Every time we are faced with change, no matter how great or small, we also face risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - or feel guilt for feeling them in the first place.
In a powerful new vision Dr Brene Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. She argues that, in truth, vulnerability is…
A human child raised by the fae is an uncommon thing. But Rafi was such a child.
Now grown, half-fae but mortal, he lingers on the edge of human society in Miryoku, a nearby town sharing a border with fae territory. He doesn’t want to join the human world properly; he just wants to play music with a local cover band and avoid the cruelest members of his fae family.
Then, he meets Roxana, and his world shifts. She’s a human metalworking witch, up for a friendly fling with Rafi before she and her twelve-year-old daughter move away from Miryoku…
A law-abiding metalworking witch and a form-shifting half-fae musician embark on a secret romance, but soon become caught in escalating tensions between fae and humans that threaten their hometown. The second story after the popular Lava Red Feather Blue comes alive in Ballad for Jasmine Town.
The town of Miryoku has ocean views, fragrant jasmine vines, and a thriving arts scene, including a popular nineties cover band. It also sits on the verge, sharing a border with fae territory, a realm of both enchantments and dangers.
Rafi has been unusual all his life: a human born to a fae mother,…
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