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We suffer pain or trauma or abuse. We are compelled to make a painful life choice, leaving a partner or a job or a home, and part of us resists that choice and still clings to the old relationship or the old place. We fall into depression or addiction or make compromises with the world as we understand it, thus giving up on our big dreams of life. 

In Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole, bestselling author and world-renowned dream explorer Robert Moss explains that these challenging life situations often create a loss of our vital energy and identity — soul loss — and that our dreams are powerful tools in recovering the aspects of our souls that have gone missing throughout the course of our lives. 

After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Iraq, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war — the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a “moral injury” — a wound to the soul that eventually urged him toward suicide. 

Desperate for relief from the pain and guilt that haunted him, Voss embarked on a 2,700-mile journey across America, walking from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the Pacific Ocean with a fellow veteran. Readers walk with these men as they meet other veterans, Native American healers, and spiritual teachers who appear in the most unexpected forms. 

The night that bestselling author and Zen teacher Brad Warner learned that his childhood friend Marky had died of cancer at the age of forty-eight, Warner had just arrived in Hamburg, Germany, where he was scheduled to give a talk to a group of Zen students. It was the last thing he felt like doing. Instead, Warner was thinking about all the things he had never said to his friend, since topics like spirituality and meditation didn’t exactly fit with the passion for punk rock they had shared since they were young. So, as Warner continued his teaching tour through Europe, he began writing out all the things he wished he had said to Marky before he died. 

Eckhart Tolle’s profound yet simple teachings in the New York Times bestseller The Power of Now have helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of these teachings lies the transformation of consciousness — a spiritual awakening that can be the next step in human evolution.  

For nearly two decades, Dr. Stuart Eisendrath has been researching and teaching the therapeutic effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on people experiencing clinical depression. His work has helped those who struggle with depression dramatically improve their symptoms and quality of life by changing how they relate to their thoughts and feelings.

Can complaining lead to a better life? Amy Fish, author of I Wanted Fries with That: How to Ask for What You Want and Get What You Need, thinks it can! In fact, as the “Chief Complaints Officer” (also known as the ombudsman) for Concordia University in Montreal, Amy spends her days investigating, analyzing, and resolving complaints for a whole variety of people. She believes we all can make the world a better place by standing up for ourselves — even about the small things.