The bestselling author of The Woman's Comfort Book explores what questions to ask to find a life of fully expressed creativity.
In conversations with women who are seeking or have found their own answers to their own questions, and in vividly imagined visitations from her Comfort Queen, Louden begins to see the importance of simply listening to that quiet inner voice, where all the answers to our own individual path lie waiting for us to discover them.
"Louden shows readers how to get a life of meaning." -Gail Hudson, Amazon.com
Jennifer Louden is a bestselling writer, creativity mentor and creator of learning events. She has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs, including Oprah. She's spoken to thousands of women in settings as diverse as the Canadian wilderness and a German bank. She lives on an island in Puget Sound. Learn more about her at www.comfortqueen.com.
Jennifer Louden is the best-selling author of The Woman's Comfort Book, The Couple's Comfort Book, The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book, The Woman's Retreat Book, and Comfort Secrets for Busy Women. She is both a personal coach and social commentator, who has taken the concept of "comfort" and self-care, and made these essential concepts irresistible and essential to women around the world. Jennifer is a cultural visionary, harnessing her extraordinary ability to recognize women's comfort as both a fundamental need and an innate desire.
As women's roles and voices have evolved, so has Jennifer's mission, transforming from a well-read self-help author to a cultural leader and life guide, inspiring women to develop their own recipe for emotional, physical, spiritual and work-life balance. With Jennifer's prompting, women are encouraged to find their personal truths, to explore and unearth their purposes in life, purposes that resonate most authentically with their innate wisdom, creating the truest comfort of all.
Jennifer's books have been translated into nine languages and have been bestsellers in both Germany and the U.S, reaching hundreds of thousands of women. Jennifer has taught her lively workshops and delivered her humorous and motivational keynotes across the U.S., Canada, and Europe at hospitals, women's health centers, corporations, and universities. She has created and led innovative women's retreats since 1992, from the Omega retreat center to the wilds of Canada to corporate retreats. She is also a certified coach, and graduated from Newfield Network's program.
Jennifer has been featured in major publications and regularly shares her voice with an enthusiastic national audience. Her media appearances have included the Oprah Show, Later Today, as well as MS-NBC, CNN, and Fit TV. Articles about her work have appeared in Glamour, Shape, People, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Self, New Woman, Ladies Home Journal, Yoga Journal, Health, InStyle, and Parents, as well as many local papers.
Jennifer's name has become synonymous with comfort and the multi-minding woman. Recognizing the genuineness of Jennifer's vision and the depth at which people have bonded with her message, major forward-thinking companies - from Proctor & Gamble to Martha Stewart's Omnimedia - have seen the value of utilizing Jennifer as spokesperson, editor, or purveyor of truth, and always as an embodiment of authenticity.
Jennifer lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband, cinematographer Christopher Mosio, and their daughter, Lillian.
This review is from: Comfort Secrets for Busy Women: Finding Your Way When Your Life Is Overflowing (Paperback)
Never before have I read a self-help book where the author starts out by admitting her own failures. Wait, to clarify: Sure, the self-help authors talk about the failures of their PAST-- the ones that they've overcome and are now teaching about. Jennifer, instead, talks frankly about how she quit listening to her own advice and felt hypocritical teaching others how to nurture themselves when she was living a "cavernous" life. This made me believe her, because I knew she wasn't going to blow sunshine up my derriere for the rest of the book.
She speaks my language, too-- this book isn't about guilting yourself into doing more, planning more, organizing more, but about slacking off and taking things at your own pace and listening to yourself. I love her humor, her insight, and her warmth.
This is not a book to read once and put away on your shelf, for each page is packed with wisdom to be digested slowly over time. Take modest steps. Learn to recognize the symptoms that you're getting "out of harmony." Throw away perfection. Learn the difference between pleasure and happiness. Not all brand new concepts, but presented in a new and appealing way that made me feel more confident that I, like this "imperfect" narrator, could actually accomplish these goals. None of it felt like a lecture; it all felt like solid and friendly help from someone who had been in my shoes.
I enjoyed following this author's journey and am optimistic that I will make real life changes as a result of having read this book. An excellent choice for all the women out there who do too much and nurture themselves too little.
--Jenna Glatzer, editor of www.absolutewrite.com and author of OUTWITTING WRITER'S BLOCK and Other Problems of the Pen
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This review is from: Comfort Secrets for Busy Women: Finding Your Way When Your Life Is Overflowing (Paperback)
Just a heads up to anyone who enjoys reading Jennifer's books - I've read her Retreat book, The Woman's Comfort Book, and I purchased this one, along with another book titled "The Comfort Queen's Guide to Life: Create All That You Need with Just What You", also by Jennifer, only to find that it's a renamed version of THIS book - "Comfort Secrets for Busy Women: Finding Your Way When your Life Is Overflowing"... it's IDENTICAL.. I find this annoying and misleading. There was NEVER any indication here at Amazon, or in the descriptions for both of these books that they were one and the same. They were published in different years, but I honestly think Jennifer was out to get more bang for her buck on this one.. In addition, as much as love her writing and her suggestions, her character CQ (Comfort Queen) got to be a bit annoying as I read through one of these books. Incidentally, I didn't finish the book. And now I will most likely see if a friend is interested in one of these editions, or I will sell them at the used book store.. Jennifer, this really disappoints me.. Here I thought I was getting 2 different books by a favorite author, only to find they are one and the same book, with different titles.. I will check things out more carefully before I buy another of her books.. to say the least..
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I first met Jennifer Louden when we hooked up to lead our Writer's Spa in Taos NM (She has a rockin' site at comfortqueen.com) Anyway -- working with Jennifer was like relaxing by an ever-flowing stream in a sunlit valley -- she just made me feel good. And she made our participants feel great! So then I read the first edition of this book, and was really knocked out. I already knew she was wise and a real source on comfort, but she's a funny, insightful and powerful writer, too. This book really had a new spin on how to fully and totally grasp the life you want, and ride your dream into the sunset. I can't recommend it enough!
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