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Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest,
down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was
first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling
novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over
years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wise and immensely
helpful, this is the book for all serious writers and
writers-to-be.
In this life-changing book, writer and spiritual coach Neal Allen,
teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic.
“Better Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and
quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you
were born to be.†- Anne Lamott, Author of Dusk Night Dawn, Bird
by Bird and others What if your superego has it wrong? That snarky
little bully in your head…you know the one. You’ve lived under
its weight for decades. I’m a fraud, I’m lazy I need to work
harder I need to be tougher, funnier, calmer… I need to stay
quiet, look pretty, stop showing off I need to put others before
me, I need to put myself first I need to be perfect I need to hide
who I really am Sound familiar? You know that its scolding voice is
harmful to you, but you can't will it away. You accept a life with
short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety.
But you don't have to. In this revolutionary new book, Better Days:
Tame Your Inner Critic, writer and spiritual coach, Neal
Allen, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that
often gets ignored - the superego. Building on Freud’s idea that
the superego necessarily forms a person’s moral conscience, Neal
explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a
survival mechanism, but when no longer needed for protection, camps
out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that
doesn’t belong. Through simple and engaging exercises and
explorations, Neal leads you into meeting, confronting, and
ultimately quieting your own inner critic. By shedding off the
burden of the superego, you can overcome tired patterns of reward
and punishment, reduce the self-talk that harms you, and ultimately
clear an open space for the life you deserve, one that is gentler
and more peaceful. Just imagine…if all that nasty, negative
chatter in your head just evaporated ... what would you do next?
Better days are just ahead.
In this life-changing book, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen,
teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic.
“Better Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and
quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you
were born to be.†- Anne Lamott, Author of Dusk Night Dawn, Bird
by Bird and others What if your superego has it wrong? That snarky
little bully in your head…you know the one. You’ve lived under
its weight for decades. I’m a fraud, I’m lazy I need to work
harder I need to be tougher, funnier, calmer… I need to stay
quiet, look pretty, stop showing off I need to put others before
me, I need to put myself first I need to be perfect I need to hide
who I really am Sound familiar? You know that its scolding voice is
harmful to you, but you can't will it away. You accept a life with
short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety.
But you don't have to. In this revolutionary new book, Better Days:
Tame Your Inner Critic, writer and spiritual coach, Neal
Allen, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that
often gets ignored - the superego. Building on Freud’s idea that
the superego necessarily forms a person’s moral conscience, Neal
explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a
survival mechanism, but when no longer needed for protection, camps
out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that
doesn’t belong. Through simple and engaging exercises and
explorations, Neal leads you into meeting, confronting, and
ultimately quieting your own inner critic. By shedding off the
burden of the superego, you can overcome tired patterns of reward
and punishment, reduce the self-talk that harms you, and ultimately
clear an open space for the life you deserve, one that is gentler
and more peaceful. Just imagine…if all that nasty, negative
chatter in your head just evaporated ... what would you do next?
Better days are just ahead.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR How do we get through dark times
when we feel like giving in to fear and despair, and when
existential dread has convinced us of our smallness? In this real,
resonant book, Anne Lamott uses her own recent marriage as a
framework to explore how our lives can be enlarged through renewed
commitment to ourselves and those around us. With warmth and wit,
she looks at what it means to care for the soul when struggling
with fear and dread and to emerge with exuberance, purpose and
possibility, with new love for and joy in those around us. Our
lives shouldn't be about what gets us ahead in the game or the
demands other make on us. Wise, compassionate and spiritually
uplifting, Dusk, Night, Dawn is for anyone looking for Christian
hope and encouragement in times of fear and dread. It will leave
you restored, and show you how you can care for your soul and live
peacefully and exuberantly going forward. 'Chock-full of her
trademark wit . . . this is [Lamott's] first book since getting
married, so those honest insights about choosing love amid anxiety
are sure to shine even brighter.' Bookpage 'By turns wise, funny,
tragic, mystical, visionary, and imaginative . . . Readers new to
Lamott are opening themselves to a real treat, as her abilities as
a storyteller are in full form.' Library Journal
Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families,
and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest, Anne
Lamott shows how we can rediscover the hope and wisdom that are
buried within us and that can make life sweeter than we ever
imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential
truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight and,
with warmth and humour, offers a path forward.
'I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to
believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to
be said about keeping prayer simple. Help. Thanks. Wow.' Readers of
all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and
perceptive writing about faith and prayer. And in Help, Thanks,
Wow, she has coalesced everything she's learned about prayer into
these simple, transformative truths. It is these three prayers -
asking for assistance, appreciating the good we witness, and
feeling awe at the world - that get us through the day and show us
the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came
to these insights, explains what they have meant to her over the
years and how they've helped, and explores how others have embraced
these ideas. Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be,
Help, Thanks, Wow is a book that new Lamott readers will love and
longtime Lamott fans will treasure.
Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food
and God, explains how to take the journey to find one's own best
self in this "beautiful, funny, deeply relevant" (Glennon Doyle)
collection of personal reflections. With an introduction by Anne
Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating
read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent.
It's a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether
it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts,
or the shape of our ambitions. And it's about stopping the search
to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the "Me
Project" is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one's
power and joy. This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal
beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just
women's feelings about their bodies but also their confidence,
choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and
workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized
that there was a connection that held her students captive in their
unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on
insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to
move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity
and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant,
bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough
means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds
and bodies.
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"
"Superb writing advice... hilarious, helpful and provocative." -- "New York Times Book Review."
"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." -- "Los Angeles Times."
"A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write... sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and kind -- a reveille to get off our duffs and start writing "now," while we still can." -- "Seattle Times."
What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we
reconnect to one another and to what's sustaining, when evil and
catastrophe seem inescapable? These questions lie at the heart of
Stitches, Anne Lamott's follow-up to her New York Times-bestselling
work, Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book, she explores how we find
meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start
again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture
wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this
frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped
sheets of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back
together - one stitch at a time. It's in these stitches that the
quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth,
humour and humanity.
From the bestselling author of "Stitches "and "Help, Thanks, Wow
"comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on
hope, joy, and grace.
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays
that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become
her trademark. Now in "Small Victories," Lamott offers a new
message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the
darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may
seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our
perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness,
restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even
in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting
lost and our amazement in finally being found.
Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in
"Small Victories "are proof that the human spirit is
irrepressible.
"New York Times"-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the
three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times,
difficult days and the hardships of daily life.
Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's
funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of
trial and error. And in her new book, "Help, Thanks, Wow," she has
coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals.
It is these three prayers - asking for assistance from a higher
power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at
the world around us - that can get us through the day and can show
us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she
came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they
have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same
ideas.
Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, "Help, Thanks,
Wow "is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love
and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.
"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in
faith in...the wonderful "Grace (Eventually)."" ("Chicago Sun-
Times") In "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith," the author of
the bestsellers "Traveling Mercies" and "Plan B" delivers a
poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to
discover what it means to be fully alive.
Anne Lamott's poignant first novel, reissued in an attractive new edition.
Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace's illness as by the emotional wake it sweeps under Jen and her brothers, self-contained Ben and feckless, lovable Randy. With characteristic affection and accuracy, Lamott sketches this offbeat family and their nearest and dearest as they draw ever closer in the intimacy Jen prizes "among the other estimable things: good music, good hard laughter, good sex, good industry, and good books."
The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies. A funny, warm, and wise novel about family and forgiveness from an author acclaimed as "nothing short of miraculous" (The New Yorker).
"Lamott's ...most insightful book yet, "Stitches "offers plenty of
her characteristic witty wisdom...this slim, readable volume is] a
lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging each reader to
reflect on what it is, after all, that really matters."--"People"
What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we
reconnect to one other and to what's sustaining, when evil and
catastrophe seem inescapable?
These questions lie at the heart of "Stitches," Lamott's profound
follow-up to her "New York Times"-bestselling "Help, Thanks, Wow."
In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these
loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and
public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how
we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin,
Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and
spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a
time.
It's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded
in them are strength, warmth, humor, and humanity.
It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At
thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her
now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and
neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all
important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and
getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and
greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to
that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very
little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that
make up a woman's life.
The Church of 80% Sincerity shares the inspiring, poignant,
wickedly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking story of motivational
speaker David Roche's journey from shame to self-acceptance. Born
with a severe facial deformity, David has had a life that's been
anything but easy. Still, over time he's learned to accept his
gifts as well as his flaws, and to see that, sometimes, they are
one and the same. In this compelling book, he shares his
hard-earned lessons, providing an irresistible and unforgettable
glimpse of his (and everyone's) inner beauty and worth, and offers
profound encouragement in dealing with whatever life brings.
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