Finding Your Own Spiritual Path: An Everyday Guidebook [Paperback]

Peg Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1994

Finding Your Own Spiritual Path is the perfect guidebook for this generation of seekers, serving as an intimate companion for anyone working to create a new kind of relationship with spirituality. Beginning with the basics, author Peg Thompson helps readers-

• Explore their own histories with spirituality and religion
• Identify and heal old spiritual wounds
• Learn about prayer and meditation, ritual and worship, community and service
• Begin to incorporate a spiritual practice into their daily lives

Filled with exercises, journal-keeping ideas, and inspiring real-life stories, Finding Your Own Path will help point the way to a more personal and fulfilling expression of faith.

Peg Thompson, Ph.D., is a psychologist and social worker who leads spiritual exploration groups for women.

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About the Author

Peg Thompson, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist practicing in St. Paul, MN. She specializes in working with adults of all ages and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender clients. She offers individual and couple therapy, individual and group spiritual direction, and consultation to retreat facilities and spiritual direction training programs. She has expertise in working at the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality, spiritual and religious development through the lifespan, and spiritual issues of GLBT persons. She is a frequent presenter on these topics as well.Peg serves as an adjunct faculty member at St. Mary's University of Minnesota and the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Hazelden (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894869124
• ISBN-13: 978-0894869129
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,351,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A useful spiritual guidebook for today's seekers., April 10, 2000

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This review is from: Finding Your Own Spiritual Path: An Everyday Guidebook (Paperback)

Peg Thompson has given us a real gem: a book to use, not just to read. She avoids sentimentality and sectarianism, choosing instead to help the reader peel away his or her own layers of hurt, fear, pain, futility, and anguish in seeking a uniquely personal spiritual life. Her journaling exercises and questions are keen and helpful. Her "Passageways" in each chapter are drawn from many different meditation sources. The book draws on the varied experiences of a diverse group of people, showing that spirituality is truly multi-layered, multi-colored. This is a book for those of us who need a way to live spiritually but often feel frustrated and pained by our "efforts" or uncertain about how to go about it. No judgements are made nor are any doctrines taught within its pages, and Thompson even shares with us her own frustrations, joys, triumphs, and setbacks in living spiritually. Read it, use it, grow with it.