by Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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 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.Simple Abundance (Warner, 1995) has sold over three million hardcover copies, and is a #1 Globe and Mail and New York Times bestseller. Sarah Ban Breathnach has appeared five times on Oprah, and her Journal of Gratitude has inspired a recurring segment. She has also been a guest on Dini, Good Morning America and The View, and has been featured in Time, People, and the Washington Post, as well as many other national publications. The author writes a regular column on everyday spirituality in Good Housekeeping and will start a national newsletter for fans of Simple Abundance.The Simple Abundance Charitable Fund, founded by Sarah Ban Breathnach, has donated $685,000 to charity. Something More is a One Spirit Main Selection.Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook read by the author.Sarah Ban Breathnach (pronounced Bon Brannock') is the author of the bestselling Simple Abundance and the founder of the Simple Abundance Charitable Trust, a non-profit bridge-group between charitable causes and the public. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including six appearances on Oprah, and has been profiled in such magazines as Time, Maclean's, and People.
Amazon.com Review
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 tidbit-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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Lame and selfish, 2008-09-11
This book is a tome for discontented baby boomer women wanting to turn back the clock to their 30s. Women with money and the leisure to travel and look for companionship, no less.
What an insult to the hundreds of thousands of women struggling with real life every day in America.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 How to Live Your Life Well, 2007-09-15
A delicious book! This is one of my favourite books in my library. Sarah writes so beautifully and appears to hold nothing back from her readers. She generously shares personal moments of joy and sadness-you know those things that make life so rich and challenging. If you are ready to uncover aspects of our own personality that can allow you to feel proud and strong, as well as vulnerable, then I suggest you might like to read this book. In a busy world it is easy to forget how wonderful life really is and this book serves as a great reminder of the possiblities that we have open to us when we embrace all aspects of our self, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and work with what we have to make our world a better place to live in.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Escavating Your Authentic Self, 2006-08-27
It is exactly what I was looking for and I am most pleased with another one of Breathnach's books. JP
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
a positive pick-me-up, 2006-05-17
I have taken this book out time and time again since buying it a few years ago. I have underlined, highlighted and written notes in the margins according to what peaks my interest at a particular time. These books never fail to give me a boost of refreshing energy that is well-needed and, according to the author, well-deserved in a time where women find themselves constantly on the go. I can't say enough how much I enjoy this book.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Surprisingly Disappointing, 2006-01-06
I've never written an Amazon review, but this book compelled me to do so. I'm surprised that this book was published because its style and organization are so poor. The chapters are choppy, their arrangement makes no sense, and there is no cohesion. The self-excavation thread does not tie the book together as well as it might have, and the excavation journal project doesn't finish what it starts.
Though some passages are interesting to read, the tone of this book leaves me feeling depressed rather than inspired. Is marriage such a bad thing? Do we give up ourselves completely in order to be married and raise a family? This book can suggest that, intentionally or not.
Something More may be helpful to others or it may slightly resonate for me at a different time in my life, but I just don't agree with the view of life and relationships that it expresses. I was expecting something more positive, inspiring and helpful. Instead it leaves me unhappy an unnerved.
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