Getting ready to send out description of my newest and most the up-to-the-minute pub workshop March 30th.
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San Francisco
December 31, 2013
My present to myself, days in SF devoted to art, books, movies, music, and food! Have tickets already to David Hockney show and Apple Store workshops. Also, will spend time with dear friend & artist, Sas Colby.
James Strecker review
November 27, 2013
James Strecker Reviews the Arts
YOUR SOUL AT A CROSSROADS (With Steps You Can Take Not to Lose It) by VALERIE HARMS
Posted on November 26, 2013 by strecker
While Valerie Harms’ latest book, Your Soul at a Crossroads, is a concise 100 pages in length, its 17 sections draw on the author’s lifetime of intense exploration into inner and outer worlds. The result is a spiritually seductive and life-affirming guide for those with some inkling that their existence has profound but, as yet, unrealized goods to deliver. Happily, one tends to trust Harms as an advisor because, in the book’s deeply personal autobiographical passages, she verifies that she well knows from experience both life’s sorrows and its epiphanies, its loves and its losses. One is impressed and reassured by the range of her experience, since Harms has taken, over the years, many paths to reach some understanding of herself and her world. She has also documented a number of these spiritual journeys in other of her books.
Consider these previous works: The Inner Lover which explores how to use passion for another as a means to self-empowerment and not to the usual entanglement; Dreaming of Animals which addresses our present and potential relationships with a variety of animals on a physical and psychic level; National Audubon Society Almanac of the Environment: The Ecology of Everyday Life whose “sections include ecology relating to our bodies, homes, communities, land and ocean, global politics”; Celebration with Anais Nin which is based on “an intimate weekend conference with Anais” ; and even Tryin’ To Get to You, The Story of Elvis Presley -and, yes, she knew Elvis and, yes, that’s the two of them on the book’s cover.
Most essential is Harms’ training and extensive experience as an Intensive Journal Consultant. Harms has here selectively recycled a few appropriate aspects of the Intensive Journal, a method created by depth psychologist Ira Progoff, one of the author’s mentors. Always, however, references to other books and methods are integrated into what one senses to be a unique approach. One also senses that resources which have been of benefit to the author of Your Soul at a Crossroads might be of use to the reader as well. Thus, one is thankful for the evocative, if necessarily brief, introductions to, say, Ira Progoff, or Carl Jung, or sexual groundbreaker Annie Sprinkle and her Eco-bliss.
We each have a life and Harms is willing to share hers, make an example of it, make it useful for others. She is also willing to explain the methods she has used to expand her realm of consciousness in order to exist more fully as a human being. In Your Soul at a Crossroads, Harms sets up an accepting context for the reader’s exploration into the meanings of existence and makes such exploration seem inviting, invigorating, fulfilling, and absolutely essential. It’s a book that invites one to live the riches of the unknown and, at the same time, it provides the techniques to be more fully alive as one does so. It’s a gem of a book.
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YOUR SOUL AT A CROSSROADS (With Steps You Can Take Not to Lose It) by VALERIE HARMS
Posted on November 26, 2013 by strecker
While Valerie Harms’ latest book, Your Soul at a Crossroads, is a concise 100 pages in length, its 17 sections draw on the author’s lifetime of intense exploration into inner and outer worlds. The result is a spiritually seductive and life-affirming guide for those with some inkling that their existence has profound but, as yet, unrealized goods to deliver. Happily, one tends to trust Harms as an advisor because, in the book’s deeply personal autobiographical passages, she verifies that she well knows from experience both life’s sorrows and its epiphanies, its loves and its losses. One is impressed and reassured by the range of her experience, since Harms has taken, over the years, many paths to reach some understanding of herself and her world. She has also documented a number of these spiritual journeys in other of her books.
Consider these previous works: The Inner Lover which explores how to use passion for another as a means to self-empowerment and not to the usual entanglement; Dreaming of Animals which addresses our present and potential relationships with a variety of animals on a physical and psychic level; National Audubon Society Almanac of the Environment: The Ecology of Everyday Life whose “sections include ecology relating to our bodies, homes, communities, land and ocean, global politics”; Celebration with Anais Nin which is based on “an intimate weekend conference with Anais” ; and even Tryin’ To Get to You, The Story of Elvis Presley -and, yes, she knew Elvis and, yes, that’s the two of them on the book’s cover.
Most essential is Harms’ training and extensive experience as an Intensive Journal Consultant. Harms has here selectively recycled a few appropriate aspects of the Intensive Journal, a method created by depth psychologist Ira Progoff, one of the author’s mentors. Always, however, references to other books and methods are integrated into what one senses to be a unique approach. One also senses that resources which have been of benefit to the author of Your Soul at a Crossroads might be of use to the reader as well. Thus, one is thankful for the evocative, if necessarily brief, introductions to, say, Ira Progoff, or Carl Jung, or sexual groundbreaker Annie Sprinkle and her Eco-bliss.
We each have a life and Harms is willing to share hers, make an example of it, make it useful for others. She is also willing to explain the methods she has used to expand her realm of consciousness in order to exist more fully as a human being. In Your Soul at a Crossroads, Harms sets up an accepting context for the reader’s exploration into the meanings of existence and makes such exploration seem inviting, invigorating, fulfilling, and absolutely essential. It’s a book that invites one to live the riches of the unknown and, at the same time, it provides the techniques to be more fully alive as one does so. It’s a gem of a book.
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Silence and the Soul on Huffington Post
November 4, 2013
Am excited to have new blog on Huffington Post about my book...
Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-harms/silence-the-soul_b_4192659.html
Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-harms/silence-the-soul_b_4192659.html
2 best books this month
October 25, 2013
Two of the best books I've read this month are:
Jewelry Box by Aurelie Sheehan (I have to admit she's my daughter but the book shows much artistry.
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, a big fast-moving book about a 19th c. woman botanist. Excellent characters, theme, places. It's totally absorbing.
Jewelry Box by Aurelie Sheehan (I have to admit she's my daughter but the book shows much artistry.
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, a big fast-moving book about a 19th c. woman botanist. Excellent characters, theme, places. It's totally absorbing.
The picture before reading
October 3, 2013
Bozeman's Country Bookshelf is so beautiful. I was lucky to have many friends and former workshop participants attend. I also got to wear my new purple pants and had my hair fixed up by Trevor at Theory salon. Then I went to Macy's and had Gretchen do a light makeup. Then I was struck by inspiration and asked my neighbor, Alexis Pike, who teaches photography at MSU, to take a photo of me with my short hair. She obliged and brought over a light reflector and in 10 minutes turned out the best pix of me yet. Thanks, Alexis. Read More
About reading at Country Bookshelf, Oct. 1
September 20, 2013
Come if you can...Oct. 1 reading at Country Bookshelf, 28 W. Main St., Bozeman.
I will discuss my new book, Your Soul at a Crossroads ~ with steps you can take not to lose it. This book is part memoir and part depth guide to finding the right path in relationships, work, health, and nature. Exercises enable you to find your inner wisdom and personal meaning. The book also contains chapters on dreams, rebirth symbols, & myths. This is Valerie's 10th book. The beautiful Country Bookshelf is Montana's largest independent bookstore, located at 28 W. Main in Bozeman. Read More
I will discuss my new book, Your Soul at a Crossroads ~ with steps you can take not to lose it. This book is part memoir and part depth guide to finding the right path in relationships, work, health, and nature. Exercises enable you to find your inner wisdom and personal meaning. The book also contains chapters on dreams, rebirth symbols, & myths. This is Valerie's 10th book. The beautiful Country Bookshelf is Montana's largest independent bookstore, located at 28 W. Main in Bozeman. Read More
Goodreads review sections
August 28, 2013
I've just put on my Books page places where you can review my books and link to Goodreads. Take advantage of Goodreads. I recommend it.
Country Bookshelf reading
August 25, 2013
Am happy to know that the Country Bookshelf here in Bozeman would like me to present Your Soul at a Crossroads on Tuesday, Oct. 1st. This bookstore is excellent.
Your Soul at a Crossroads ~ with steps you can take not to lose it
August 4, 2013
Now available as a paperback or ebook...
Published by Magic Circle Press
This book enables readers to confidently choose the right path when up against many choices in their lives. It provides exercises on relationships, work, and health that uncover the spiritual wisdom rooted in the individual’s soul. It offers both inspiration and memoir.
Everyone has difficulties — some inordinately hard — but all essential to their fate. We struggle in relationships, work, health, and with how to live meaningfully. Sometimes we’re high, sometimes low, always in flux, but when we die to one way of life, we are reborn into another. This book aims at helping you find renewal and transcendence after life delivers a blow.
Find the meaning of your life within you, not out there somewhere, by using the techniques that have aided me and others for decades. If you are confused about what your next steps are and you try these exercises, they will give you fresh courage and insights to bring into your life…and world.
Contents cover the essence of timing, dialogue guidelines, examples from the author’s life and others’, dreams, death, and evocative rebirth symbols and myths.
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Published by Magic Circle Press
This book enables readers to confidently choose the right path when up against many choices in their lives. It provides exercises on relationships, work, and health that uncover the spiritual wisdom rooted in the individual’s soul. It offers both inspiration and memoir.
Everyone has difficulties — some inordinately hard — but all essential to their fate. We struggle in relationships, work, health, and with how to live meaningfully. Sometimes we’re high, sometimes low, always in flux, but when we die to one way of life, we are reborn into another. This book aims at helping you find renewal and transcendence after life delivers a blow.
Find the meaning of your life within you, not out there somewhere, by using the techniques that have aided me and others for decades. If you are confused about what your next steps are and you try these exercises, they will give you fresh courage and insights to bring into your life…and world.
Contents cover the essence of timing, dialogue guidelines, examples from the author’s life and others’, dreams, death, and evocative rebirth symbols and myths.
Read More