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by Beth Miller (Author)
Awakening Is Not for the Faint of Heart is a raw, soul-stirring journey into what it truly means to awaken - to yourself, to truth, and to the fierce, transformative power of love. With unflinching honesty and poetic insight, this book invites you to strip away the illusions that keep you safe but small, and step boldly into the vulnerability that leads to real freedom. It's not easy. It's not tidy. But it is everything. We are perpetual students of life; and love has "our back" no matter what. If you're ready to risk comfort for connection, fear for freedom, and numbness for radical aliveness, this is your call to courage.
In 2022, like many people all over the world, Beth Miller contracted Covid. In the months to come, as the illness settled in to stay, she was forced to surrender to it in body and spirit. By entering the unknown and slowly embracing illness as her teacher, she found peace amidst the turmoil of a chronic illness and layers of past trauma, ultimately becoming more fully alive (than she had ever been). In this heartfelt, profound, and poignant memoir Beth Miller generously shares with us how to "become comfortable with the uncomfortable" and trust in the mystery of life.
"Diving courageously into her devotion to "know thyself" -Dorothy S. Hunt - Author of Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness, Only This!, Leaves from Moon Mountain.
"Full of hard-earned embodied heart" -Susanne Marie - Spiritual Teacher & Writer
"Reading this book was like slipping into a pool of presence" -Dona Tversky, MD MPH - Stanford Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
"In this wise, poignant, and soulful little book" -John Prendergast, Ph.D., author of Your Deepest Ground, The Deep Heart, and In Touch.
