Inner Peace for Busy Women: Balancing Work, Family, and Your Inner Life - Hardcover

Borysenko, Joan Z., Ph.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401901220 ISBN 13: 9781401901226

Publisher: Hay House Inc, 2003

Synopsis

This is a book about getting real. It tells the truth about busyness and peace in a way that can help us women change our lives. Until quite recently, it was politically incorrect to mention that balancing work and family, while having any time left to nurture our spirit, was a tall order. Only now, when a second generation of women is entering the ranks of the family-work-spirituality jugglers, do we feel secure enough to stop for a minute and say, "Wow, this is a hard act to pull off. Sometimes we’re tired, stressed out, and in danger of shutting down and losing our hearts. But if we share the truth of our lives, we can find a better way. Here’s what we learned that can make it easier for you."

This book gets to the heart of how we busy women can find a center of inner peace even when life is swirling around us like a cyclone. The actual problem isn’t that we women are overwhelmingly busy, or that working women with children are the busiest people on the face of the earth—the problem is that we’ve been taught to think that our external lives should be balanced in a prescribed way. Since they generally aren’t, and the likelihood is that they never will be since life is always changing, we create suffering by resisting what is.

Inner Peace for Busy Women will show you how to stop resisting your life and start living in the center of the cyclone, where it’s always peaceful. Among other things, in this book you’ll learn how to say no without feeling guilty; make peace with the past; be peaceful even in circumstances where happiness is not an option; follow your inner guidance; and be a beautiful mother, sister, aunt, daughter, lover, spouse, and friend—all by being your best, authentic self.

Women are systems of energy. Understanding what feeds us and what feeds off of us is integral to establishing balance and inner peace. Busyness is not the major issue for most of us—it’s our thoughts about our lives that can create symptoms of disharmony, including money and health problems, loss of empowerment, relationship and parenting difficulties, meltdowns at work, and depression. And although a long bath or a spa getaway can help, finding authentic balance means learning to take back the power we’ve given away and becoming wise—one satisfying step at a time.

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., has been described as a respected scientist, gifted therapist, and unabashed mystic. Trained at Harvard Medical School, she was an instructor in medicine until 1988. Currently the President of Mind/Body Health Sciences, Inc., she is an internationally known speaker and consultant in women’s health and spirituality, integrative medicine and the mind/body connection. She is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestsellers, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, ISBN: 0553345567; A Woman’s Book of Life, ISBN: 1-57322-651-3; 7 Paths to God, ISBN: 1-56170-640-8; The Power of the Mind to Heal, ISBN: 1-56170-144-0; and Inner Peace for Busy People, ISBN: 1-56170-870-4.

Review:

"Inner Peace for Busy Women offers up a fresh breeze of honesty, a tasty banquet of wisdom and a healthy dose of practical tips for bringing sanity to anyone's life. Joan Borysenko has written a wonderful handbook for the good life." - Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence "Reading this book, you will hear the voice of Feminine wisdom, and it will give you the strength and comfort needed to continue the sometimes messy and often wonder-filled adventure of life as a woman." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation, The Dance and The Call "Joan Borysenko's work has meant a great deal to me over the years." - Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hay House Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1401901220
• ISBN 13: 9781401901226
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 179