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My year of living spiritually : from woo-woo to wonderful--one woman's secular quest for a more soulful life

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  • Author: Bokma, Anne
    Contributor: Yelle, Tara
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    2021
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    Part seeker's memoir, part spiritual travelogue, this is a book for anyone looking to uncover - or recover - their spiritual self. In 2017, Anne Bokma embarked on a quest to become a more spiritual person. After leaving the fundamentalist religion of her youth, she became one of the eighty million North Americans who consider themselves spiritual-but-not-religious, the fastest growing "faith" category. In mid-life she found herself addicted to busyness, drinking too much, hooked on social media, dreading the empty nest and still struggling with alienation from her ultra-religious family. In response, she set out on a year-long whirlwind adventure to immerse herself in a variety of sacred practices - each of which proved to be illuminating in unexpected ways - to try to develop her own definition of what it means to be spiritual. Bokma documents a diverse range of soulful first-person experiences - from taking a dip in Thoreau's Walden Pond, to trying magic mushrooms for the first time, booking herself into a remote treehouse as an experiment in solitude, singing in a deathbed choir and enrolling in a week-long witch camp - in an entertaining and enlightening way that will compel readers (non-believers and believers alike) to try a few spiritual practices of their own. Along the way, she reconsiders key relationships in her life and begins to experience the greater depth of meaning, connection, gratitude, simplicity and inner peace that we all long for. 2019

    Original Publisher: Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2019], Toronto, CNIB
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780221071904, 0221071903