Womans Interest
Confidence, courage, and strength. All of these things come from within, but the inspiration and encouragement to sustain these virtues comes from all around us — from the tall redwoods to the perfective sand dollar, from the flame of a candle to the weave of a hand-knit sweater. In Excellent As You Are, Sue Patton Thoele offers us feed for thought, perceptive stories, and motivational quotes drawn from her popular meditation book The Woman’s Book of Confidence. Her words are combined with lush photographs on which to reflect, proving all with the inspiration we need to find our own origins of lasting confidence, deep comfort, and unfeigned inner strength.
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| About the AuthorSue Patton Thoele was a psychotherapist for more than twenty years, and is the author of ten books including The Woman’s Book of Courage, The Woman’s Book of Soul, and The Courage to Be Yourself. She and her husband, Gene, live in Boulder, Colorado near their children and grandchildren. Visit her online at www.suepattonthoele.com.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
 Lovely Gift For Any Soulful Woman in Your Life
By L. Erickson
This is a small gift book that draws on the themes, quotes, and stories of the author’s popular The Woman’s Book of Confidence: Meditations for Strength and Happiness. It is just under 100 pages, and each page focuses on one personal development or spiritual theme, such as ‘Finding a Hand When We Bottom Out’, ‘Changing What Can Be Changed’, ‘Kicking the Worry Habit’ or ‘Becoming a Conduit of Grace’. After exploring the theme and its relevance to our daily lives, each page ends with a first-person statement or quote that can be used as a meditation or affirmation related to that theme, such as “I honor what I want and need when I’m in crises. I am able to reach out to others for help.” or “I am a conduit of grace. Love flows to me and through me.” Lovely photographic close-ups of flowers are integrated throughout the book.
The author comes from both a psychological and spiritual perspective in most of the themes. Although targeted to women, most of the themes are not gender-specific, and this is definitely not a ‘goddess’ book per se, but the presentation and language are feminine. For the most part the spiritual terms used are not specific to any faith – words like ‘sacred’ or ‘divinity’, although ‘God’ is used in at least one theme. But the spiritual emphasis is universality, focused on mindfulness, love, connectivity, etc., rather than theology or doctrine.
It’s a lovely little book. Nothing new in it, nothing groundbreaking, but a lovely gift for a woman you know going through a difficult time or a transition, or for yourself if that holds true for you. Or if you or a woman you know likes to keep something near your bed-stand to just read a page from daily.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect resource
By Barbara J. Runge
I purchased this book to use as a resource for a Bible study on the Beatitudes and it has been great to refer to and to use in conjunction with that class. Several in the class have bought it as well.
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