Spirituality Resources
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- Spirituality at Work: 10 Ways to Balance Your Life on-the-Job .
- Publisher:
- Chicago, IL: Loyola Press, 2005 .
- Notes:
- Examines the spirituality of work in the context of such issues as competition, compensation, and social justice. Discusses how to find meaning in the workplace
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/44727895
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- Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1999 .
- Notes:
- Offers scenarios to help bridge the generation gap that separates us from our elders, through poignant and hopeful stories of real children, adults, and elders. Helps readers understand that the landscape of aging is truly of another country. Offers new ways of supporting each other--of sharing our time, our energy, and our love
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/40163441
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- Healing Journey through Retirement: Your Journal of Transition and Transformation, The .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: John Wiley, 2000 .
- Notes:
- Offers valuable guidance on adjusting to and managing this new stage of one's life. Encourages self-examination of the impact retirement will have, invoking the healing power of writing to allow reflection and interpretation of one's feelings The Healing Journey Through Retirement is designed to help you look deep within yourself to determine what work has meant to you, explore what you want when you leave the work force, and shape your plans and expectations for the future. This inspirational resource will be your guide to redesigning and rebuilding a central structure for your life beyond work-and doing so with a renewed sense of purpose.
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/41445642
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- Aging as a Spiritual Practice .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Gotham Books, 2012 .
- Notes:
- Offers a contemplative perspective on growing older and wiser, including suggested meditative practices
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/729341466
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- Third Age: Six Principles for Growth and Renewal after Forty, The .
- Publisher:
- Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2000 .
- Notes:
- Offers an inspiring guide to fulfillment and rejuvenation, based on a groundbreaking 12-year study of adults in midlife
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/43191023
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- From Aging to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Warner Books, 1995 .
- Notes:
- Re-contextualizes aging as the anticipated fulfillment of life, not its inevitable decline. Recommends meditation and spiritual healing to help individuals enter their later years. Also explores our limited perceptions of death and discusses how to embrace 'conscious' dying
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/30915869
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- Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life .
- Publisher:
- New York,NY: Vintage Books, 2006 .
- Notes:
- Draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enhances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offers many simple techniques to break habits, develop a more constructive style for interpreting behavior, and experience a more positive interior dialogue, and thereby becoming a master of one's own happiness
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/62793275
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- Aging With Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2001 .
- Notes:
- Discusses the findings from the a15-year study of a population of 678 nuns by one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease. Offers a wealth of practical findings from why building linguistic ability in childhood may protect against Alzheimer’s, to which foods promote longevity and healthy brain function, to why preventing strokes and depression is key to avoiding Alzheimer’s. Also discusses what role heredity plays, and why it’s never too late to start an exercise program, as well as how attitude, faith, and community can add years to our lives
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/45661479
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- What Are Old People for? How Elders Will Save the World .
- Publisher:
- Acton, MA: Vanderwyk & Burnham, 2007 .
- Notes:
- Suggests that our society's anti-aging bias has prevented us from thinking about old age in a way that will create a good elderhood. Provides a motivational and visionary blueprint for old age as a healing force in society
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/156780761
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- Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self, and Relationship, The .
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2009 .
- Notes:
- Encourages a re-imagination of how we inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understanding. Suggests that separating these "marriages" in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself. Only by understanding the journey involved in each and the stages of their maturation can we understand how to bring them together in one fulfilled life
- WorldCat:
- www.worldcat.org/oclc/233549553
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