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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.
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
