Comfort Secrets for Busy Women: Finding Your Way When Your Life Is Overflowing (Paperback)

by Louden (Author) "I'm in Massachusetts to offer a workshop to women on self-care and self-nurturing..." (more)
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Review
"Louden shows readers how to get a life of meaning."

Product Description
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

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.; Number Iine 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 edition (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402201265
• ISBN-13: 978-1402201264
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #182,184 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No holds barred, December 3, 2003

By	Jenna Glatzer "www.jennaglatzer.com" (NY, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this woman's writing!, October 16, 2003

By	Suzanne Falter-Barns (Essex, NY United States) - See all my reviews

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!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What I expected, September 12, 2006

By	Graphic Goddess (Olympic Peninsula, Washington) - See all my reviews

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..