Bøker av Sara Avant Stover

Women face many challenging transitions on the pilgrimage from girlhood through womanhood: menses, love and heartbreak, motherhood, menopause. Devoid of a central narrative, these rites of passage too often happen in shame and secrecy, leaving women doubting their personal power and self-worth. Bestselling author and founder of The Way of the Happy Woman(R), Sara Avant Stover saw how women erroneously viewed these initiations as "e;curses"e; and sought to present a new model that reflected the power and wisdom unique to the feminine path. The Book of SHE celebrates all that it means to be a woman, from mythological underpinnings to the cycles of our day-to-day lives. Drawing on archetypes including Mary Magdalene, the Dark Goddess, and Green Tara, Stover will guide you on a journey home to psychological wholeness, personal empowerment, and, ultimately, full feminine spiritual Awakening. Brimming with mystery and magic, this provocative book makes ancient wisdom and healing practices accessible to every woman who is ready to revel in her full femininity - the dark and the light - through joyfully becoming the heroine of her own life.

In a heartbreak-illiterate world, Handbook for the Heartbroken offers solace and support through losses of all kinds.After experiencing serial heartbreaks over a span of five years, Sara Avant Stover felt deeply impacted by our culture's dysfunctional relationship with loss-especially for women. We're encouraged at every turn to hurry up and get on with it. But by trying to power through these messier seasons of life, we're denying ourselves the very answers to our healing and growth. Handbook for the Heartbroken shares the grounded guidance Sara discovered during her own season of turmoil. Blending her expertise in Internal Family Systems and various wisdom traditions, she examines the three main phases of heartbreak: devastation, transformation, and rebirth. With each phase, she offers gentle lessons and supportive practices for anyone experiencing falls from grace, both past and present-the end of a relationship or job, the death of a loved one, infertility or abortion, a financial crisis, or any other form of loss. "Heartbreak is an inevitable part of everyone's life journey," writes Sara. "It's by returning to our essential qualities like patience, openheartedness, and trust that we can truly heal." Handbook for the Heartbroken weaves together personal stories, anecdotes from students and clients, spiritual teachings, practices, and journaling prompts-giving us the tools to fully embrace the harder seasons of life and "become fully wise, mature, integrated human beings."