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Healing the Purpose of Your Life [Paperback]

Dennis Linn (Author), Matthew Linn (Author), Sheila Fabricant Linn (Author)
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March 1999
What makes you special? In this intriguing book, the best-selling Linns help readers discover what makes each of us special, the one purpose of each individual's life underlying all decisions and activities, the "sealed orders" from God that go beyond what we do, to who we really are. This special purpose of being is ours alone; it is what gives our life meaning.

Combining spirituality, psychology, and medicine, as well as their own intimate stories, the Linns provide concrete ways to help readers discover their own purpose through their experiences of love, their life circumstances, their inherent faults, other people, and nature. Each chapter ends with an exercise for the individual, and the book concludes with a process for group sharing. These six sessions can be easily adjusted to suit the group's need.

Heavily illustrated in full color, Healing the Purpose of Your Life helps both individuals and groups create an environment of meaning. It's a title not only for the growing number of Linn fans but for general self-help readers, spiritual directors, youth ministers, and counselors. It's also a wonderful book for families, faith-sharing groups, youth groups, recovery groups, and groups for the divorced, the unemployed, and the bereaved.


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Both a self-help manual for individuals or groups, and an informative exploration of living Christian life to the fullest. -- Crux

For anyone facing a crisis of meaning, this book returns us to a solid foundation that is grounded in love. -- Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

There is absolutely no religious jargon here, just honest, insightful talk about finding and being one's truest self. -- Spiritual Book News

About the Author

Dennis, Sheila, and Matt Linn work as a team integrating physical, emotional and spiritual wholeness, currently through leading retreats and spiritual companioning. They have taught courses on processes for healing in over thirty countries and in many universities and hospitals. With total sales over a million copies, their many books include Healing Life's Hurts, Sleeping with Bread, Don't Forgive Too Soon, and Simple Ways to Pray for Healing. Dennis and Sheila live in Colorado with their son John, and Matt lives in a Jesuit community in Minnesota.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Paulist Press (March 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0809138530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809138531
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sealed Orders, January 25, 2000
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This book was recommended to me by my godmother. My faith background was strongly scriptural but lacked meaning. This book has enabled me to connect with a sense of purpose and life that each of us shares a special connection with God. That He created us with a specific purpose and gave us gifts to enable us to engage in our mission for Him. That He placed His Great Seal on those orders and sent us to earth. This book enabled me to look at the work that I do with a greater understanding of why I find it so spiritually draining even though I am "good at it" in the natural. Thank you Dennis, Matthew and Sheila for sharing God's words and helping us all remember why we are here.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Symbolic approach to looking at your life's purpose, March 9, 2007
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I loved this book - it uses a nice story telling approach to demonstrating a non-literal approach to looking at your life's purpose - avoids some of the more formal and less humanistic approaches to looking at life - great read when you are looking to bring back humanity into your life's purpose.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Forget the "Purpose Driven Life", October 31, 2009
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THIS is the orginal: if you are seeking a refined, self-guided, well-written-to-provoke-you aid to help you define your 'reason for being', this is the best I've seen. I have bought it for several friends, and have suggested it to therapy clients. All because, 10 years ago, I found it and used it for myself. I remain grateful.

This book is well done, quite pleasant in its writing. The three authors, brothers Linn and the wife of one, share their voices throughout. You don't feel like you are merely reading, but being involved in a thoughtful conversation.

At the end of each section/chapter, there are steps to do to consider and integrate the conversations into your own thought process. I recommend you consider getting a note book to jot down your responses. Or write in the book and keep it private. (I have my own private copy, and always keep another un-touched for others to peruse when I tell them about it.)

I also enjoy this for group work. I have used it once it its entirety (their is a section on how to do this at the end of the book). But it is also excellent for starting conversations about what matters most to you, helping yourself or others discover roadblocks to becoming, getting past times of discouragement and becoming okay with a joyful, successful life.

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A general sense of meaning in life comes from a felt sense that we are living out the special meaning of our life. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sealed orders, religious addiction, giving retreats, personal vocation, spiritual abuse
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Being of Light, Daddy King, John the Baptist, Joe Sheehan, Bernie Siegel, Dorothy Day, John Matthew, Martin Luther King
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