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Broken open : how difficult times can help us grow
Lesser, Elizabeth.
Adult Nonfiction 204.42 L
Lesser, Elizabeth.
Adult Nonfiction 204.42 L
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| Contents | Page |
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| Prelude | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| Part I - The Call of the Soul | |
| What Einstein Knew | p. 7 |
| What Dante Knew | p. 17 |
| The Hands That Work on Us | p. 20 |
| Open Secret | p. 24 |
| Bozos on the Bus | p. 27 |
| Open-Heart Surgery | p. 30 |
| Heart Warrior | p. 35 |
| Lightening Up and Falling Down | p. 39 |
| When They Revolutionize the Cocktail Parties | p. 43 |
| Sleeping Giants and Strange Angels | p. 46 |
| The Rapture of Being Alive | p. 49 |
| Part II - The Phoenix Process | |
| Chimidunchik | p. 59 |
| Here Begin the Terrors, Here Begin the Miracles | p. 64 |
| Fierce Grace | p. 72 |
| Before and After | p. 79 |
| A Broken Heart Is an Open Heart | p. 86 |
| September 11th | p. 92 |
| Crooked Hearts | p. 98 |
| Part III - The Shaman Lover | |
| Leaving My Father's House | p. 107 |
| Marriage Math | p. 111 |
| The Shaman Lover | p. 114 |
| Initiation | p. 118 |
| The Crossroads | p. 122 |
| Goethe's Chain Letter | p. 126 |
| The Joy of Being Wrong | p. 129 |
| Part IV - Children | |
| Firstborn | p. 139 |
| Run Away, Bunny! | p. 143 |
| The Great Movement of the Couch | p. 147 |
| Gift | p. 153 |
| The Vroom, Vroom Gene | p. 160 |
| Letting Them Go | p. 164 |
| Iron John | p. 171 |
| Widening the Circle | p. 176 |
| Despair and Dulcimers | p. 179 |
| Part V - Birth and Death | |
| Trailing Clouds of Glory | p. 189 |
| The Hundredth Name | p. 193 |
| No Birth, No Death | p. 198 |
| Visitation Dreams | p. 205 |
| Good Grief | p. 210 |
| Karaoke | p. 216 |
| Practicing Death | p. 221 |
| The Turtles and the Trees | p. 227 |
| A Meditation for Practicing Dying | p. 232 |
| Part VI - The River of Change | |
| Enjoying the Passage of Time | p. 239 |
| The Workshop Angel | p. 242 |
| When Grapes Turn to Wine | p. 245 |
| Ch-ch-Changes | p. 250 |
| Comfortable with Uncertainty | p. 256 |
| For Hugo | p. 258 |
| Peaceful Abiding | p. 264 |
| The Truth | p. 269 |
| The Spirit House | p. 272 |
| Appendix - Toolbox | p. 275 |
| Meditation | p. 278 |
| Meditation Instructions | p. 282 |
| Ten-Step Meditation Practice | p. 289 |
| Psychotherapy | p. 291 |
| Working with Teachers, Therapists, and Healers | p. 294 |
| Prayer | p. 297 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 301 |
| A Reader's Guide | p. 303 |
| Permission Credits | p. 309 |
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