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Winner of a da Vinci Eye Medal for Superior Cover Design Shortlisted for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Awards Montaigne Medal
To dive deep into your inner life. To explore what matters most: wisdom, happiness, the pain of loss, selfaccountability, aging, and more. Searching for Soul: A Survivors Guide is a breathtakingly honest case study: a self-examination resulting in the discovery of a meaningful life.
Bobbe Tyler blends her story with in-depth commentary, framing each chapter as a response to one of a set of questions, appended to the book, entitled The Harvesting Wisdom Interview. In her search for fulfillment, Tyler asks and answers the most difficult questions about the trauma of mental illness, divorce, financial and emotional despair. The rewards of this hardwon wisdom belong not to her alone but by way of her unflinching examination of lifes many paths, dead ends, and circuitous routes to anyone who has faced a lifechoice gone wrong or known the indescribable recovery from addiction or abuse, or longed for the peace that seems just out of reach. This searing selfappraisal provides hope and fellowship for those who seek to know themselves better.
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Though our lives and hearts are often fraught, each page of Bobbe Tylers book offers some new invitation to grow our appreciation and gratitude for the ungraspable, nittygritty miracle of being a human being. The insights she shares with us about relationships, regrets, losses, the joys of finding oneselfall the stuff that life is made ofring true in the convincing language of an individual who has won her authenticity and learned that life, just as it is, is so much more than sheor wecan ever imagine.”
James Finley, clinical psychologist and author of Mertons Palace of Nowhere and The Contemplative Heart
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Bobbe Tyler has taken a deeply considered, thoroughly honest look into her own culdesacspainful transitions that finally released the reality of her soul. Her readers will find themselves asking questions about their own life patterns
A compelling journey written in depth with intelligence and infinite love.
Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst, author of Bone: Dying into Life
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Bobbe Tylers book is without a doubt the most thought-provoking read of the decade. Dense in wisdom and profound in understanding, Searching for Soul: A Survivors Guide leaves you a more enlightened, authentic human being. Tylers language is rich and her revelations personally haunting. For those of us who ask the profound questionsbut move on before we find or look for the answersTyler provides us with the insights weve been seeking.”
Madelyn Cain, USC Master of Professional Writing Program faculty, author of The Childless Revolution: What It Means to Be Childless Today
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(A)n intricate, exquisite and deeply moving account looking backward and examining all the slings and arrows of her life. It is positive, healing, upbeat and upliftingbut with a deep, melancholic twistfor a life lived well, but sometimes not well enough
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PsychCentral
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To dive deep into your inner life. To navigate its complexity and explore your story in depth. To discover who you are exactly-the courage you have when life breaks apart, how conscious you become in that process, and how rich you feel learning the meaning of your life. On a search for wholeness, Bobbe Tyler delves deep to find and tell her story-the trauma of familial mental illness, marriage and divorce, spiritual despair, accountability, addiction and the joy of recovery, surviving loss, and finally that which matters most: love in all its ways. The rewards of her wisdom belong not to her alone but, by way of her unflinching examination of life's many paths, to all who have a story of their own to tell-who have faced a life-choice gone wrong, or met the peace that had always seemed just out of reach. This searing self-appraisal provides a model for those who seek to know themselves better and are willing to sound their depths to find their story in full.
Synopsis
To dive deep into your inner life. To explore what matters most: wisdom, happiness, the pain of loss, self–accountability, aging, and more. Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide is a breathtakingly honest case study: a self-examination resulting in the discovery of a meaningful life. To anyone who has faced a life–choice gone wrong — or known the indescribable recovery from addiction or abuse, or longed for the peace that seems just out of reach, this searing self–appraisal provides hope and fellowship for those who seek to know themselves better.
About the Author
Bobbe Tyler is a nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator who worked for several corporations including Lucasfilm, Ltd. and the Times Mirror Company. She lives in Cambria, California.