NEW YORK Occasions BESTSELLER • This inspiring guide to healing and growth illuminates the richness and potential of each life, even in the face of loss and adversity.

In the a lot more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute-now the world’s most significant center for spiritual retreat and personal growth-Elizabeth Lesser continues to be a romantic witness towards the ways that people weather change and transition. Inside a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical assistance, and personal memoir, she presents tools to help us make the decision we all encounter in situations of problem: Will we become divided and defeated, or broken open up and transformed? Lesser shares tales of ordinary individuals who have risen in the ashes of disease, divorce, loss of employment or a cherished one-stronger, wiser, and even more in touch with their purpose and interest. And she pulls around the world’s great spiritual and psychological traditions to support us even as we too figure out how to break open and blossom into who we had been meant to be.