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Hope Leans Forward

Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace
  • ISBN-13: 9781506478371
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: BROADLEAF BOOKS
  • By Valerie Brown
  • Price: AUD $58.99
  • Stock: 11 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 20/04/2023
  • Format: Hardback (184.00mm X 133.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice [VXA]
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Find spiritual insight for developing courage and meeting life's broken-open, pulled-apart times for anyone seeking hope. Daily we are asked to move toward bravery, to stretch in the direction of goodness, kindness, forgiveness, patience, and vulnerability. Yet life's tender fragility, fear, anxiety, and our own practiced self-sabotage can derail us from growing and thriving, leaving us fractured and afraid. Ordained Buddhist teacher and Quaker Valerie Brown invites us into the heart of compassion, insight, and courage. Filled with Quaker wisdom, mindfulness meditation practices, and portraits of real people living out simple yet life-affirming bravery, Hope Leans Forward is a guidebook for all of us who are on journeys of self-transformation, self-discovery, and spiritual discernment. Centering small, everyday acts of bravery with diverse stories from marginalized communities, Brown's unique perspective as a Black Buddhist Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition and her extensive leadership experience shepherd us in navigating life's essential questions to discover true aliveness and meaning. When we focus on cultivating clarity and discernment in our purpose, we begin to understand that we are truly connected to--and that we contribute to--a larger whole. Written through a period of profound personal loss and in the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, Brown's spiritual insight and life- and spirit-tested wisdom offers a new source for anyone seeking hope, and seeking to alleviate suffering within ourselves and our communities.
Valerie Brown is an author and leadership coach and the Chief Mindfulness Officer of Lead Smart Coaching, as well as co-director of Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is a Quaker and is among the few African American ordained Buddhist teachers from Plum Village, founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. Integrating mindfulness and leadership, Brown's vision is to foster individual and societal transformation through greater authenticity, trust, understanding, and love in action. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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