Coming Back to Life

  • Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects
    By Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown

    One woman drew a river winding through the landscape and in its curly rushing waters were many objects: first nuclear missiles and cooling towers, stick figures of soldiers and hungry children — and then as the river progressed, trees, ...

  • Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to The Work that Reconnects
    By Joanna Macy, Molly Brown

    Coming Back to Life shows how grief, anger, and fear are healthy responses to the harsh realities of our time, and that when honored through the revolutionary practice of the Work That Reconnects, they can free us from paralysis and move us ...

  • Coming Back to Life: The After-Effects of the Near-Death Experience
    By P. M. H. Atwater

    In 1977, P.M.H. Atwater had an experience that changed her life: she died.

  • Coming Back to Life
    By Elilde Browning

    While reading such involving and fantastic stories, I was reminded of a beautiful song by an English band from the 1990s called Coming Back to Life. Its deeply emotional and perfect lyrics say at one point: I took a heavenly ride ...

  • Coming Back to Life: A Roadmap to Healing from Pain to Create the Life You Want
    By Rebeccah Silence

    Remember, it's easy to want more when life is easy. If you are not all in, allowing your playful and wild side to wake up and start living again beyond the pain, how can you have and create the future you want?

  • Coming Back to Life
    By Valencia Hardaway

    I was 24 years old with a new lease on life. ... Melissa wanted to come, but had to work and stayed behind. ... worked for Delta and never missed a day, nor was she ever late, and she couldn't take time off to drive to Florida and back.

  • Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
    By Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown

    Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on...

  • Coming Back to Life: The After-effects of the Near-death Experience
    By P. M. H. Atwater

    After three near death experiences, Phyllis Atwater, confused by the aftereffects, began extensive research talking to over 200 fellow survivors and their loved ones. Here she provides a new and...

  • Coming Back to Life
    By Karen Armstrong, Christopher Armstrong

    We then freely choose, with full acknowledgement of our faults, to accept our fate and move on. This is the triumph of the human spirit. I thank Chris and his mother for telling their story.