About the book Becoming

The book I have been working on for the past couple of years, (it's my first publication), is just back from the printer!  It's called Becoming: Journeying toward Authenticity. 

The book is a set of personal essays, and, as one reviewer has said it  "... gleans nuggets from many teachings and makes them personally accessible. This is benefit enough to recommend it.  More than this, though, it invites us into our own experiences. And after all, it is here – in the intimacy of our own experience – that these stories come true and unfold.  These stories are doorways, opening us to our own journeys. This is a book to read over and over."
Each essay begins with a couple of wonderful quotations which set the tone, and concludes with references to related reading to deepen the exploration of the theme.  Finally, each essay offers a set of questions which invite the reader to reflect on her/his own life in the areas addressed in that essay.
The essays themselves, and the questions that follow are intended to make the collection a stepping stone for the reader's own personal reflection and self-discovery.  And this is the point of Becoming:  it is an invitation for each of us to delve into our own lives and stories, reflect and share them, widening, deepening circles.  
The section headings are 
Why me?  Why now?  What about you?Growing UpMetaphors and WorldviewsPeople and PlacesPurpose and MeaningShadows and AmbiguitiesControl and Surrender
Perhaps this piques your interest :-)

Becoming is published by a new and independent publisher, The Write Room Press (go to www.thewriteroom.net   select Publishing, and then click on New Titles -- voila! you can see and read about it.  You can also order it there as well.  Or you can contact me directly.)