Using the metaphor of the heroic journey--departure, struggle and return--the author shows readers the way to psychological and spiritual health.

How to Be an Adult: A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual Integration

Self-Help

Richo, David

Personal Transformation

Paulist Press

The author of the best-selling Flow to Be an Adult explains in his popular style how fear cripples our ability to release our full potential. He then presents a concrete program of change for overcoming this fear. Richo looks at th deepest roots of fear: fear of love, loss, change, being alone, fear of others, fear of self-disclosure, fear of giving and receiving, coming and going. His program includes becoming defense-less, that is, allowing ourselves to feel fear without our buffering defenses, and then becoming resource-full, that is, learning to act in new ways.
Features --
-- is written in a conversational tone, yet is informed by dozens of sources and years of professional experience
-- helps distinguish between neurotic fear and appropriate fear
-- integrates psychology with an ecumenical spirituality
-- includes affirmations, suggestions, and concrete actions

When Love Meets Fear: Becoming Defense-less and Resource-full

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

THE SACRED HEART OF THE WORLD renews our devotion to the Sacred Heart by attending to its scriptural and mystical origins, and expanding our spirituality to embrace universal compassion. It is the first book to tackle the issue of devotedness to the Heart of Jesus that is intelligible and appealing to people of the twenty-first century. Based on a combination of extensive research and the author's own personal devotion to the Sacred Heart--a lost treasure from our Catholic past--and his interest in mysticism, THE SACRED HEART OF THE WORLD unlocks a new future of vibrant and conscious faith. The book has a threefold purpose: -to inspire devotion to the Sacred Heart, -to rekindle spiritual devotion, and -to center the Sacred Heart into the new cosmological realizations that will appeal both to Catholics and people from a variety of religious traditions. The book explores the symbolism of the heart in world religious traditions, and then traces the historical thread of the devotion into modern times. It draws significant links to the philosophy and theology of Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Rahner and their links with Ignatian spirituality. The prayers and meditations at the end of each section provide spiritual bonuses that will continue to benefit the reader after reading the book.

The Sacred Heart of the World: Restoring Mystical Devotion to Our Spiritual Life

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Part of psychology health is growing up not only in mind but in how we see the questions of faith and spirituality. To this end this book provides a detailed and straightforward vision of what faith and spirituality can look like in adult consciousness.

How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality

When Catholic Means Cosmic argues that real faith finds its goal, as St. Thomas Aquinas states, not in adherence to beliefs or in devotional feelings, but in generous and compassionate action. True faith in the gospel of Jesus is shown first of all in having and showing love for everyone. This introduces us to the bigness of our faith since it shows it to be about universal love. In this way, faith is a driving force of our evolution as connected beings. When Catholic Means Cosmic presents a liberated Catholicismone that is about its values, assets, and limitations. While some people have divided religion from spirituality, this book now looks at reconnecting them sanely and exuberantly as it examines the marvels and challenges on our journey of discovering where we are going.

When Catholic Means Cosmic: Opening to a Big-Hearted Faith

In exploring the Divine Feminie imagined in Mary, When Mary Becomes Cosmic opens us to another way to honour her - not unlike the mystics, who have travelled along this was to the depths- and helps us to explore the richness that lies in what Jung reffered to as the Catholic Church's treasury of image and metaphor. The archetypal images found in ancient and treasured "Litany or Loreto" form the framework for this books, and, enriched with quotes from a variety of spiritual writers, Richo guides us through reflections on: "Who is Mary?" and "What is the Divine Feminine?" Finally in the appendix, "A Retreat with Mary," the author encourages prayer with suggestions for various ways of praying with music, art, movement, silence, etc. as well as "being" with the image of Mary.

When Mary Becomes Cosmic: A Jungian and Mystical Path to the Divine Feminine

Everything Ablaze begins with an introduction to Teilhard s work. It then explores mystical themes in his perspectives on science and religion. Each chapter combines relevant quotations from Teilhard and contemplations on them. The goal of mystical transformation is nothing less than a new life in Christ. Teilhard shows us the path to that possibility. His mysticism is earth-conscious. His words help open us to the mysterious forces in the universe that reveal God s face. The meditative responses to the quotations include practices that bring Teilhard s ideas into daily life and will be welcomed by a general lay audience.

Everything Ablaze: Meditating on the Mystical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin

Everyone is afraid. Sometimes fear is inappropriate and unnecessary. At other times, we have good reason to be afraid. But in every case, fear reduces our ability to be ourselves. It convinces us we shouldn’t take chances or risks.\nThis book is for people who want to let go of unreasonable fear or act more creatively in the face of reasonable fear. It explores the roots of fear―the fear of change, of self-disclosure, of giving and receiving, of being alone. Beneath all of these is the greatest fear of all: the fear of loving and being loved.\nThis 25th anniversary edition speaks of the enduring message of the book and this new edition has been greatly updated and expanded to include more contemporary developments in psychology and current events. Every chapter of the book has been rewritten and revised with a new audience in mind. Some new sections have been added and existing sections revised.\nThis revised and updated edition reflects the author’s growing understanding of the ageless concern in our lives―becoming free from fear so that we can be more resourceful in our life. 
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Richo has chosen twenty-three components of humanness, each a topic of a chapter. He begins each chapter with a short section about the topic as it is described in psychology or spirituality. Then he presents quotations from Shakespeare on that theme. Every passage walks us into who we are and can be, both psychologically and spiritually. The quotations are wonderfully imaginative kick-offs into it. After each Shakespeare quotation is a short re-phrase in modern English. After each set of quotations, he presents a paragraph or two, based on the points made in them, meant to show how they can be springboards into becoming more sensitive to the topic. 
The book is divided into three parts. In Part One, the author explores who we are. In Part Two, he looks at what happens to us during a lifetime. In Part Three, he presents specific suggestions found in Shakespeare about how to put these themes into practice.

To Thine Own Self Be True: Shakespeare as Therapist and Spiritual Guide

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Shows the way to psychological and spiritual health.

How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration

Paulist Pr

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How to Be an Adult: A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual Integration

When Love Meets Fear: Becoming Defense-less and Resource-full

The Sacred Heart of the World: Restoring Mystical Devotion to Our Spiritual Life

How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality

When Catholic Means Cosmic: Opening to a Big-Hearted Faith

When Mary Becomes Cosmic: A Jungian and Mystical Path to the Divine Feminine

Everything Ablaze: Meditating on the Mystical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin

When Love Meets Fear: Becoming Defense-less and Resource-full

To Thine Own Self Be True: Shakespeare as Therapist and Spiritual Guide

How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration