The Joy is in the Journey
A Woman's Guide Through Crisis and Change
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The Eighth Solution: Live Consciously Underlying Principle: Life is not about getting there, but about experiencing the joy in the journey. We women have become so caught up in the momentum of our lives that we have lost our awareness of the moment. In our attempts to accomplish more, we miss out on the simplicity and serenity of less. In our quest to have it all, we end up empty. Mistakenly believing that life is about getting there, we fail to realize that we’ve already arrived. The Eighth Solution helps us bridge the gap between what appears to be important, and what really is. By showing us ways to stay awake, it provides the means for our lives to continue evolving along the underlying principles we have encountered thus far, and the spiritual truths that they promote. Learning to live consciously allows us to do more than simply endure or cope with our life’s changes and crises; it enables us to weave both the difficult and the divine into the core and substance of who we really are. By making a decision to walk through life with our eyes wide open, we become empowered to fully embrace every dimension of our lives -- the reality of the known, the uncertainty of the unknown, and the marvelous mystery of the Unknowable. With the First Solution, we began our pilgrimage through crisis and change by making a decision to accept ourselves under any and all circumstances. In the past, self acceptance was a concept that created difficulty, primarily because we placed too much importance on how things looked, and consequently felt “less-than” when our unrealistic expectations or desires didn’t materialize. Often, we were motivated by an insidious pursuit of perfection or immobilized by the opposite extreme of, “Who cares anyway?” Neither way promoted a healthy self-image.
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Finally! The long awaited “directions” that women have yearned for and needed in order to cope with, transition through, and ultimately make the most of life’s many challenges, crises, and changes.
This 260-page hands-on, “how-to” book is designed for women of all ages and stages, and provides a winning combination of practical advice, spiritual wisdom, proven suggestions, and compelling examples of women’s trials and triumphs. Betty Hill Crowson, holistic life coach, retreat director, and motivational speaker, introduces the reader to her Eight Solutions of practicing self-acceptance, becoming balanced, growing spiritually, learning to let go, choosing to heal, being willing to stop, look, listen, and learn, taking right action, and living consciously. Together, these Solutions address a woman’s immediate concerns during a critical or transitional period, deepen her self-awareness, increase her spiritual well-being, and promote her capacity for joy.
For every woman who says, “Don’t just tell me to let go, or to heal, or to change -- show me how!,” The Joy is the Journey: A Woman’s Guide Through Crisis and Change is the answer.
About the Author
In addition to being an author, Betty Hill Crowson is a Personal Life Coach, Retreat Director, and Licensed Social Worker who has spent over two decades working in the areas of crisis intervention, grief counseling, addictive behaviors, and spirituality. Her women’s spiritual retreats, workshops, and in-service training under the trademark of “The Joy is in the Journey” are highly in demand and reviewed as “life changing” by participants. Betty is a popular and charismatic speaker/writer/teacher with an unusual ability to synthesize traditional and current wisdom-knowledge into an easily understood and practical form. More information about her work can be obtained by visiting www.thejoyisinthejourney.com.
"Betty Crowson and her work are clearly a godsend to women everywhere." "The Joy is in the Journey is a simple, yet profoundly wise and practical guide to living fully and healthfully."