Living a Loved Life - Awakening Wisdom Through Stories of Inspiration, Challenge and Possibility (Thinking Positive Book, Motivational & Spiritual Guide)

Discover Your Wisdom Within"Internationally renowned thought leader and personal growth expert Dawna Markova, PhD...challenges us to listen to the heartfelt lessons necessary to create the most loving life possible." -Robyn Spizman, Loving Out Loud: The Power of a Kind Word, media personality, and New York Times bestselling author
Selected for The Best Spiritual Books of 2019 List

An inspiring and evocative book reminding you that the discovery of how you can live a life you love is found hidden in the stories you tell about your life.
An inspirational book to help shine a light on how each of us carries a possibility that everyone needs. Instead of hugs, Dawna Markova's midwife grandmother used to kiss the unique marks at the very end of her fingertips, calling them "promise prints." She said that the moment each of us are born life makes a promise to the world that only we can fulfill. Living A Loved Life is a particularly important book in these dark and fragmented times when so many of us have become convinced that they really can't and don't make a difference.
Your go-to motivational book. Dawna Markova, Ph.D. has been a teacher, psychotherapist, researcher, executive advisor, and organizational fairy godmother. She has given empowerment, creativity, and spirituality presentations around the world to various corporate and non-corporate audiences. Living A loved life is an uplifting collection of stories woven from Dr. Markova's own experience as well as those of her clients. These stories can guide you and help you find an untapped reservoir of capacity within-a connective force, a steady light in the depth of darkness. Living A Loved Life will leave you committed to never again diminish your mind or limit the capacity of your heart.
If you liked I've Been Thinking...by Maria Shriver, On the Brink of Everything by Parker Palmer or Becoming Wise by Krista Tippet, you'll love reading Living A Loved Life.

List of contents

Table Of Contents

*=story of inspiration, ^=story of challenge, >=story of possibility

Yeasting

How Do I Live a Loved Life? 5

Rising

*What Was the Promise Life Made to the World the Moment You Were Born? 13 ^"Pretending I'm Not Pretending" 16

>Blessed, Blissed, Pissed, Dissed 20

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*How Do I Call When I Want the Promise to Answer? 25 ^Argue for Limitations and They're Mine 28

>In Pursuit of the Dangerously Possible 30

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*How Do I Notice Where I'm Already Free? 36

^A Body of Wisdom 38

>May it Be So 41

Kneading

*How Can I Never Lose Who I Really Am? 46

^Alternate Lifestyle for A Frustrated Housewife 51

>Footsteps to Follow 56

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*How Do I Risk My Significance? 60

^Let Wounds Be My Teachers 63

>That Which Is Unfinished For Me to Give 67

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*What Is Bigger Than My Fear? 71

^No Matter What 74

>The Other Side of Everything 78

Braiding

*How Do I Grow My Heart? 82

^Finding My Unlived Parentheses 85

>Even Here, Love Can Grow 89

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*Will I Lose Every One I Love? 92

^Unlearning to Not Speak 95

>Tomorrow Is Not Promised 97

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*Will You Ever Leave Me? 100

^Giving What Only I Can Give 103

>What Are You Waiting For? 106

Baking and Sharing

What Would It Take to Let Go Of the Forgetting of Joy? 111

Open Questions to Evoke 'Talkstory' 115

About the author

Inspirational speaker, writer, and researcher, Dawna Markova, PhD is CEO emeritus of Professional Thinking Partners, an organization that teaches collaborative thinking to CEOs and senior executives around the world. She has served as a senior affiliate of the Organizational Learning Center at MIT, and a consultant member of the Society for Organizational Learning and has received a Vision to Action award for her work originating the Random Acts of Kindness movement, the Foster Grandparenting and Peer Counseling programs, and the World Wide Women's Web.

One of the creators of the best-selling Random Acts of Kindness series, Dawna is the author of many other inspirational books, including Reconcilable Differences, Collaborative Intelligence, A Spot of Grace, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, The Smart Parenting Revolution, The Open Mind, How Your Child Is Smart, No Enemies Within, Learning Unlimited, and The Art of the Possible, as well as the Open Mind Audio Series with Sounds True. She is also a contributor to For She Is the Tree of Life: Grandmothers Through the Eyes Of Women Writers, and Fabric of the Future.

Summary

Discover Your Wisdom Within

“Internationally renowned thought leader and personal growth expert Dawna Markova, PhD…challenges us to listen to the heartfelt lessons necessary to create the most loving life possible.”  —Robyn Spizman, Loving Out Loud: The Power of a Kind Word, media personality, and New York Times bestselling author
Selected for The Best Spiritual Books of 2019 List

An inspiring and evocative book reminding you that the discovery of how you can live a life you love is found hidden in the stories you tell about your life.
An inspirational book to help shine a light on how each of us carries a possibility that everyone needs. Instead of hugs, Dawna Markova's midwife grandmother used to kiss the unique marks at the very end of her fingertips, calling them “promise prints.” She said that the moment each of us are born life makes a promise to the world that only we can fulfill. Living A Loved Life is a particularly important book in these dark and fragmented times when so many of us have become convinced that they really can't and don't make a difference.
Your go-to motivational book. Dawna Markova, Ph.D. has been a teacher, psychotherapist, researcher, executive advisor, and organizational fairy godmother. She has given empowerment, creativity, and spirituality presentations around the world to various corporate and non-corporate audiences. Living A loved life is an uplifting collection of stories woven from Dr. Markova’s own experience as well as those of her clients. These stories can guide you and help you find an untapped reservoir of capacity within―a connective force, a steady light in the depth of darkness. Living A Loved Life will leave you committed to never again diminish your mind or limit the capacity of your heart.
If you liked I’ve Been Thinking…by Maria Shriver, On the Brink of Everything by Parker Palmer or Becoming Wise by Krista Tippet, you’ll love reading Living A Loved Life.

Foreword

Dawna Markova’s work has focused on sharing insight into how each of us can live in a meaningful, inspired and inspiring way. She has given speeches around the world to various audiences, keynoted for large corporate, health care and individual groups including women's empowerment courses, creativity/spirituality conferences, and the national Cancer as a Turning Point conference. Articles she’s written have appeared in countless magazines, website newsletters. ClubMom.com, a site for women that garners over 1,000,000 hits per month and Levo.com, a site that focuses on creating a purpose-driven life to over 2 million millennials have marketed her previous books.
For her last two books, written with her “daughter-in-love” Angie McArthur, and published by Spiegel-Grau at Random House, the marketing outreach included: NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Fresh Air, On Being, Code Switch, It’s Been a Minute, WNYC/Lopate & Brian Lehrer, WBUR/ Here and Now, On Point, WAMU/Diane Rehm, Kojo Nnamdi, Wisconsin Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, KPFA, KPCC, WAMC, Voices in the Family as well as top local radio programs across the country and major online sites including: Sounds True, NBC.com, Slate, Salon, Huffington Post ELLE, Family Circle, Glamour, First for Women, Self, Redbook, Women’s Health, and online and print publications such as Marie Claire, The Cut, TheAtlantic.com, grandparents.com, AARP’s “Real Possibilities, and the Costco Connection.

Product details

• Authors: Dawna Markova, Markova Dawna
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2019
• EAN: 9781642501261
• ISBN: 978-1-64250-126-1
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 202 g
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Non-fiction book; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness, SELF-HELP / Spiritual, Self-help, personal development and practical advice