No matter how spectacular their lives may be, women today are plagued by the nagging feeling that there must be something more to happiness. And they're right. In this insightful and eloquent book, Sarah Ban Breathnach explores the nine stages necessary to living authentically: Sensing, Surviving, Settling, Stumbling, Selling Out, Starting Over, Searching, Striving, and finally, Something More. Through storytelling and interpretation, she leads women on a path to becoming "Archaeologists of Themselves" and helps them discover that that "something more" was deep within them all along. By providing women with this knowledge, she offers readers a way to profoundly change their lives -- forever.
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From the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy comes a guided excavation for women who suspect that there's something more to life than the top layer pursuits of money, sex, and love. In service to these restless souls who want to scratch beneath the surface, Ban Breathnach offers titbit-sized essays that help women unearth pay dirt--their reason for being. Using archaeology as her frame of reference, Ban Breathnach suggests imaginative exercises at the end of each chapter, which she refers to as "Field Work." Although it occasionally feels overdone, the archaeology metaphor works well--helping readers unearth their past choices and circumstances to better understand the soul's current mission. Early in the book, Ban Breathnach offers this enticing invitation to go on a spiritual dig: "Besides the fact that your soul is one of the last unlooted sources of the miraculous, with discoveries as spectacular as any found in the Delta of Venus or Egypt's Valley of the Kings, you can embark on a soul trip and be back before anyone even notices you're missing. They might be curious about that gleam in your eye and that flush on your cheek, but I'll never tell if you won't. Are you game? We're heading to the sacred site of your soul". --Gail Hudson
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You may have a beautiful home, a family you adore, and work that you enjoy. But why do you secretly sense that you need something more to be truly happy? Because it's true.
The wisdom, warmth, compassion and disarming candour of Simple Abundance have made Sarah Ban Breathnach a trusted voice to millions of women. Now, Sarah invites you on a bold, brave and beautiful continuation of the journey to authenticity, the search for...
SOMETHING MORE
In this eloquent and evocative book, Sarah Ban Breathnach encourages you to become an archaeologist of your Self: to plumb your past with its unfulfilled longings, forgotten pleasures, and abandoned dreams, to 'excavate' the authentic woman buried inside.
Uncovering your authentic self will be challenging - but exhilarating. Assisting your personal 'dig' will be hints and prompts from the lives of both celebrated and unknown women. These, in tandem with Sarah's own insights, will help you unravel your own mystery and recover the joy that has been missing from your life. Along the way, you will experience small but exquisite epiphanies that will help you come to terms with your past choices and reveal exciting new opportunities that lead to your destiny.
Dare to begin the journey. Within these pages lie powerful truths that can change your life...and inspire you to settle for nothing less than Something More. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I loved Simple Abundance and have integrated many of its insights and practices, such as the gratitude journal, into my daily life. In Something More, Ban Breathnach has repudiated so much of what she allegedly espoused before. Even the exercises and collages seem perfunctory here. This book seems to be her revenge for a sad and cold marriage. I wish her luck in her new life and with her dream man but she'll need something more than this book to help her find it.
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I agree with most of the five-star reviews. There are less than five books I have read that changed my life. Each book was read when I was ready to see a new way of looking. Ms. Ban Breathnach confirms what I have experienced during my lifetime. We are here to learn not hide, not complain, nor blame others for the choices we make. The hard road is always narrow and with space enough for one set of footprints. Thank you, Ms. Ban Breathnach.
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Honesty is often the most complex phenomenon to describe and even harder to live by. It is far too easy to let cynicism, weariness and pride get in the way of speaking from the heart. By inviting us to search inside for the memories and feelings that we so often forget and dismiss as the years progress, Sarah Ban Breathnach allows us to awaken our own truth and to embrace it without fear. My trigger to this path of discovery? Remembering the moments in my life when I felt such pure joy that it was as if someone had taken hold of my sweetest dreams and transported them into my unsuspecting reality. It is exactly these moments that Sarah wants us to recreate because it is at these times that we feel the greatest gift of all - self-worth. Forget the pay rise, the large house, even being surrounded by those you love. True self-worth will exist long beyond all of these. What a blessing that Sarah has written this book.
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Highly recommend this book-it saved my soul.
This is the first book I have ever read, where I immediately had to read over! The book is a wonderful book to help heal the soul. I will always cherish this book.
Published on 11 Aug 1999
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Something More, Definetely A Book for Courageous Women
I recently finished this book, which I had purchased strictly through coincidence as I had just read a small blurb about it in a magazine I was leafing through. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 1999
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An interesting book
This book is an interesting read and utilizes the common psychological procedures in uncovering one layer after the other to look into one self--but in a very creative way. Read more
Published on 24 July 1999
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There are 2 kinds of women
Women who have found the meaning of life and those who haven't. Of the latter, one set haven't but think they have: don't READ this book. Read more
Published on 22 July 1999
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There are 2 kinds of women
Women who have found the meaning of life and those who haven't. Of the latter, one set haven't but think they have: don't READ this book. Read more
Published on 22 July 1999
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A waste of time, no real answers.
I was one click away from buying this book, but went to the library instead. Thank goodness! This book took pages and pages to say nothing. Read more
Published on 14 July 1999
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Useful wisdom
I agree with the earlier reviewer who praised inspiring books like "The Triumph and the Glory" but disagree over her opinion of Sarah Breathnach's wonderful books. Read more
Published on 8 July 1999
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Hype Hype Hype
Excavate this. I get far more enjoyment, satisfaction, moral lessons, and inspiring examples from reading great novels like "The Triumph and the Glory", Stones From... Read more
Published on 6 July 1999
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Uninspiring, banal breathnach.
Sarah Ban Breathnach steals. Doesn't anyone remember that it was Emerson, and the Transcendentalist crowd who first coined and developed the term, "Divine Discontent? Read more
Published on 3 July 1999
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This book has changed my life forever.
This book changed my life so much that I am starting a book study with several of my friends. We will be listening to the audiotape and then sharing our life experiences. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 1999
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