I hope you enjoyed the excerpt from this book earlier today!
Now for the review and giveaway!
Synopsis: What would it feel like to experience more ease, harmony and flow in the midst of navigating homework squabbles, meetings, daily commutes, and the challenges of everyday life? What if your family became your greatest source of joy?
In NURTURING THE SOUL OF YOUR FAMILY: 10 Ways to Reconnect and Find Peace in Everyday Life (New World Library, March 1, 2013), award-winning author Renée Trudeau invites parents to find calm and connection with concrete, practical teachings and exercises that create real and lasting shifts. Based on her popular and sold-out workshops and women’s renewal retreats, the book delivers on the promise of its title by helping parents cultivate harmony and peace within and without as they guide their families toward a more connected and meaningful way of life.
Endorsed by Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods, Dr. Christine Carter, Raising Happiness, Vicki Abeles, creator of Race to Nowhere and others, Trudeau’s newest release helps readers learn to:
* Find their center and move through chaos and uncertainty with renewed strength and ease
* Live in greater alignment with their values and what matters most
* Slow down, live more intentionally and know what's best for themselves and their family
* Release old fears and learn to live more in the present moment (the best antidote to stress!)
Trudeau shows readers how to find inner peace while they’re in the mist of everyday life —carpooling, navigating homework, making dinner. She shows how to forge strong family bonds for deep, sustainable connections. The exercises in the book are not “you should” chores but pleasurable activities focus on different aspects of family life, from individual self-care to establishing a spiritual practice, managing media, and tapping the healing power of nature.
Review: In many ways, the book comes back to simplicity- live by that motto, help your kids to live by it, embrace it and be. While that sounded 'new agey', it really is about connecting to one another, giving freely to one another, and being part of more than the self, a larger community. In essence, things that we as a culture have gotten away from, as we stayed plugged into social networks, and miss the moments happening around us and in our families. We can go off on a whole other blog post about the loss of community when families leave churches/religion, but that also has affected the way in which we raise our families today.
For those of us in the South, who are truly 'Southern', a lot of what Renee is speaking about are things we already do- that are really part of our essence- Southerners have tradition and culture down pat thank you. From the moment Miss Grace came into our lives, she has been surrounded by family traditions, holiday traditions, city culture events, area cultural events, religious community and cultural expectations. All things handed down from generation to generation, for the most part- those that are basically all the things that define 'Southern' as 'Southern'.
So to me, this book was a synopsis of things we already do- we unplug, we enjoy each other and those in our community, we give back, and we keep our traditions alive. For those who are lacking in those areas, this book is a very helpful guide.
About the Author: Life balance coach/speaker Renée Peterson Trudeau is the author of the new book Nurturing the Soul of Your Family. Thousands of women in ten countries are participating in Personal Renewal Groups based on her first book, the award-winning The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal. Visit her online at www.ReneeTrudeau.com, on Facebook and on Twitter @reneetrudeau.
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Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book, free of charge, from New World Library, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it
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