Getting to Center
Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
"Marlee's work shifts and stretches. This new collection is a necessary resource for those of us looking to re-center, lean in, and get curious about ourselves, about our heart's work. Getting to Center is a blessing in book form." —Alexandra Elle, author of After the Rain
From the beloved creator, workshop facilitator, and author of How to Not Always Be Working comes an approachable and practical guide to leaning into the unknown even when it feels as though everything around—and inside—us is in flux.
Picking up where How to Not Always Be Working left off, Getting to Center is an empathetic offering to those who are looking for a roadmap for finding their way back to equilibrium. This book meditates on endings, grief and joy, ease, hope, addiction, and beginnings, pairing Marlee's own experiences and wisdom with practical exercises and tools for creating balance and understanding within the natural changes of life.
In her own constant shifting, improviser and entrepreneur Marlee Grace has found ways to pivot within her career, while still maintaining constant threads throughout. She has developed practices that have supported her through opening and closing multiple businesses, a divorce, several cross-country moves, choosing sobriety, and more.
Essential for anyone who feels overwhelmed and anxious about these unpredictable times, this gorgeous, thoughtful book is a hand to hold to feel less alone, and a guide to cultivating resources we can replenish and depend on in ourselves.
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In this inviting guide, professional dancer Grace (How to Not Always Be Working) shares her lifelong struggle with finding happiness and contentment. Grace lists dozens of causes or triggers that can knock a person off center grief, vulnerability, guilt, distractions, the pressure to be productive and opens up about her own struggles with sobriety, impostor syndrome, and a contentious divorce. To deal with the vicissitudes of life, Grace encourages, among other things, praying, journaling, and making lists, as with her "To-Do List for When You're Feeling Unlikable" which recommends as a remedy putting on a colorful outfit, going for a walk, or calling a friend who "knows you are the best." And when one feels overwhelmed by responsibilities, she recommends "alone retreats." Among the personal anecdotes, she writes of overcoming self-critical thoughts by posting online videos of herself dancing every day for a year. Any self-help reader will appreciate these novel ways to thrive in difficult moments.
