Stretching Lessons: The Daring that Starts from Within

Overview

In 1989 Sue Bender published Plain and Simple, an elegant, captivating book that sought to answer the question, "Is there another way to live a good life?" Plain and Simple went on to become a phenomenal best-seller and, in the process, Sue was embraced by hundreds of thousands of readers who looked to her to be their gentle guide in the search for a life lived with meaning, beauty, and peace.

Still searching, Sue turned from the quest fro fulfillment in community to her immediate surroundings in the best-seller, Everyday Sacred. Now, in Stretching Lessons, her journey becomes even more intimate. Sue looks inward to discover the daring spirit within each of us that whispers to be heard. By listening to the wisdom of the body, she follows the urgent call we have to become as big as we truly are. Using the metaphor of stretching to overcome our self-imposed limits and the restricted visions of our own possibilities, this book--her most profound work to date--becomes a new way to learn about the spirit that dares you to be your biggest, best, most original self.

Sue Bender remains a pioneer of the path of the spirit, and Stretching Lessons offers some of her most rigorous and personal explorations to date. Through Sue's humble and honest grappling with her own frailties and struggles, we discover the larger life lessons that come from working past our limitations.

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Bio of Sue Bender

Sue Bender is the author of Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish (HarperSanFrancisco). The book was a New York Times bestseller. A fascination with Amish quilts led Sue to live with the Amish in their seemingly timeless world, a landscape of immense inner quiet. This privilege, rarely bestowed upon outsiders, taught her about simplicity and commitment and the contentment that comes from accepting who you are. In this inspiring book, Bender shares the lessons she learned while in the presence of the Amish people. Born in New York City, Sue Bender received her BA from Simmons College and her MA from the Harvard University School of Education. She taught high school in New York and English at the Berlitz School in Switzerland. She later earned a Masters in Social Work from the University of California at Berkeley. During her active years as a family therapist, Bender was founder and Director of CHOICE: The Institute of the Middle Years. In addition to being an author and former therapist, Sue Bender is a ceramic artist and much sought after lecturer nationwide. She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband Richard, and is the mother of two grown sons.

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Imprint

HarperCollins e-books

Filesize

479.21 KB

Number of Pages

240

eBook ISBN

9780061968112