Nurturing the Soul of Your Family: 21 Ways to Reconnect and Find Peace in Everyday Life

What would it feel like to experience more ease, harmony, and flow in the midst of navigating homework squabbles, mealtimes, commutes, and the other challenges of everyday life? Nurturing the Soul of Your Family is a guidebook for personal and spiritual renewal from the award-winning author of The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal . It offers nurturing support and practical ideas to guide you toward a new way of being. Enjoyable, down-to-earth, and empowering, Renée Peterson Trudeau’s ten paths to peace will help you learn how to: * find your center and move through chaos and uncertainty with renewed strength and ease * live every day aligned with your values and what matters most * slow down, tap the wisdom of your wise self, and know what’s best for you and your family * release old habits, fears, and anxieties as you explore a new way of being * access more joy by living in the present moment (the best antidote to stress!) * experience more freedom and unscheduled time What would it feel like to experience more ease, harmony, and flow in the midst of navigating homework squabbles, mealtimes, commutes, and the other challenges of everyday life? Nurturing the Soul of Your Family is a guidebook for personal and spiritual renewal from the award-winning author of The Mother{u2019}s Guide to Self-Renewal. It offers nurturing support and practical ideas to guide you toward a new way of being. Enjoyable, down-to-earth, and empowering, Renée Peterson Trudeau{u2019}s ten paths to peace will help you learn how to: * find your center and move through chaos and uncertainty with renewed strength and ease * live every day aligned with your values and what matters most * slow down, tap the wisdom of your wise self, and know what{u2019}s best for you and your family * release old habits, fears, and anxieties as you explore a new way of being * access more joy by living in the present moment (the best antidote to stress!) * experience more freedom and unscheduled time ?We{u2019}re hungry for more than food,? writes the author. ?We{u2019}re hungry for connection, joy, meaning, completion, truth.? The foods every culture uses to mark milestones and seasons honor this multifaceted hunger and feed the ?hungry ghost,? a Tao concept about restless souls still ?hungry? beyond the grave. Ellen Kanner serves up vegan recipes that satisfy these cravings, including DIY Matzo, When All Else Fails Pasta, and Caribbean Christmas Pepper Pot. In a voice as appealing as her recipes, Kanner seasons her text with warm, wise stories (helping kids plant a garden; hanging out at farmers{u2019} markets; meeting Marcel, a Haitian who marks loss with soup) that show why ?Often, the best way to exercise your faith and serve the world comes in choosing what you eat for dinner.? A combination of writing about food and food traditions, descriptions of cultural and religious traditions where food is central (from Haiti soup night to a recipe for a dish to break the fast of Ramadan). The book is broken into parts: seeds; flowering; harvest; compost. She includes Judeo-Christian, Haitian, Turkish, Muslim, African, Mexican, traditions, both religious and secular, around food and how people use food to soothe, celebrate, commemorate, grieve, and connect with each other. The author is active in the sustainable eating movement and writes regularly for the Huffington Post (meatless Monday blog); Gourmet; and local Miami newsletters. "Advice and practices for supporting family peace, harmony, and connection in daily life from a life-balance coach"--Provided by publisher