Download or read book The Book of Tom written by Tom Schellenbach and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unsparing memoir, Tom Schellenbach, a gay former Franciscan priest, chronicles his personal evolution while studying for and serving for five decades within the Catholic Church. Tom retraces his experiences from his childhood in Hamilton, Ohio as one of 13 children, to his entry into the seminary at the age of 14 which ultimately led to his becoming a priest, his leaving the priesthood but still working for the Church, his resignation, and finding his true love.Set against the swift cultural changes of the 60s, 70s and 80s, the Church remained stubbornly unwilling to acknowledge the cultural changes that were reshaping the attitudes of their parishioners and the priests who served them. The Church's resistance to change ultimately led Tom to leave the priesthood to pursue a life of uncompromising authenticity. His work as a priest took him from the verdant hollers of rural Kentucky to the spare, open beauty of Navajo country in the southwest. His story offers a rare look into the life of a priest, revealing the loneliness and alienation many priests struggle with as they pursue their dedication to serve. On the cusp of his third decade of service in the Church, Tom succumbed to a crisis of faith and identity. He details his halting exit from the priesthood, and his coming out at a time when homosexuality was more commonly met with hostility and fear. Yet there was no turning back. Gone was his "safe" identity he had shaped since his early teens. His life was his to begin again. The Book of Tom is an important memoir that lays bare the challenges of stark truthfulness and honesty faced when answering the call to authenticity -- no matter our path in life. It reflects the Catholic Church's failure to lead with compassion during a time of cultural change, and it highlights a critical inflection point in our culture's long-overdue evolution to acceptance of those in the LGBT+ community.

Download or read book If Women Rose Rooted written by Sharon Blackie and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-changing journey from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection. Fifth anniversary edition, with new afterword for 2021. 'Mind-blowing. An anthem for all we could be . . . I sincerely hope every woman who can read has the time and space to read it.' Manda Scott, author of Boudica and A Treachery of Spies 'This is the core of our task: to respect and revere ourselves, and so bring about a world in which women are respected and revered, recognised once again as holding the life-giving power of the earth itself.' If Women Rose Rootedhas been described as both transformative and essential. Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a quest to find their place in the world, drawing inspiration from the wise and powerful women in native mythology, and guidance from contemporary role models who have re-rooted themselves in land and community and taken responsibility for shaping the future. Beautifully written, honest and moving,If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the rewilding of womanhood;reclaiming our role as guardians of the land. 'Powerful and inspiring.' Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley

Download or read book Your Essential Self written by Richard Harvey and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps you learn how to attain the three stages of human awakening - the process of self-discovery, the transformation into authenticity, and the source of consciousness - on the inner journey to your true self. This guide describes how spiritual attainment is not an unreachable fantasy, but a logical extension of human development.

Download or read book Journey to Authenticity written by R. Sonny Misar and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey To Authenticity chronicles the journey of the believer in finding his or her self-identity in Christ. It focuses largely in understanding the various seasons of life that believers must pass through on their way to authentic Christian living. Beginning as a spoken message that has helped many, this timely book will help believers at all stages to understand God's way of leading his own into the maturity to which we are all called in Christ.

Download or read book Authenticity Reawakened written by Vicki Znavor and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless resource to build your best life! AUTHENTICITY REAWAKENED is the result of countless hours of research as well as the author, Vicki Znavor's personal experiences and lessons learned over her forty-year career as an expert in the field of human resources. It's brimming with powerful yet simple strategies to build your authentic leadership along with heartwarming stories with the essential reminder that work is, and always will be, "personal". In this book, you will also discover the all-important lesson that when you know your story, your values and your purpose, you will be equipped to bring your authentic self to work and life every day. In fact, once you're clear on these aspects of your authentic self, anything less from yourself or others is no longer acceptable because you know that purpose is your very reason for being. Learn from real-life stories that will help you understand: ● Ways to be authentic and why it matters ● How to best build your legacy ● What to do if you dread going to work ● How to understand and tackle fear ● The basics of increasing your authenticity at work ● Lessons on managing conflict ● Pivotal moments that are core to who you are ● How to decide whether to stay or leave your job This book will help you discover the values that will further reveal your all-important purpose. Vicki has done the work of validating the extensive research that establishes the fact that values and purpose are foundational to our authenticity. Get your copy today and experience the power it will have in making your work and life much more purposeful and rewarding.

Download or read book Journey to Authenticity Italian Version written by R. Sonny Misar and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I invite you to come with me on a journey; a pilgrimage of sorts. This journey is not over land and sea, but is through the passages of the human soul. Our discoveries will not be of gold and lost cities, but of our own identity in Christ. This is a unique journey because it is directed by the hand of God. In fact, the word "pilgrimage" means a journey to a sacred place. That sacred place is where we find the mysterious mingling of both divine intention and human will. This spiritual journey enables us to discover ourselves, our God and our place in His greater purpose on earth.

Download or read book Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey 1790 1840 written by Andreas Schönle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In illuminating analyses of major texts as well as lesser known but influential works, Andreas Schönle surveys the literary travelogue--a form marked by a fully developed narrator's voice, interpretive impressions, scenic descriptions, and extended narrative--from its emergence in Russia to the end of the Romantic era.

Download or read book Embrace Your Truth written by Gabrielle Claiborne and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a beautiful diamond, your truth is multi-faceted, with dazzling aspects of authenticity always waiting to shine forth. Embracing each facet of your ever-unfolding truth can be scary and challenging. But the joys of doing so far outweigh the heartache of living a safe, but inauthentic life. Author Gabrielle Claiborne knows. From the outside, it looked like she had it all: beautiful family, high-power career, church and community respect. But inside, she was living a life of turmoil. Overcoming four decades of fear and shame, Gabrielle risked everything and leaped into the unknown to embrace a key aspect of her truth, that she is a transgender woman. In this inspiring "memoir meets self-help" book this successful business owner, TEDx speaker and nationally recognized LGBTQ leader shares her riveting story of losing one life and discovering another. As she recounts her joys and struggles, with humor and vulnerability, Gabrielle graciously weaves insights about living authentically with invitations for readers to embrace new facets of their own unique truths--whatever those look like for them.

Download or read book The Authenticity Principle written by Ritu Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society that pushes conformity, how can you be courageously authentic despite fear of judgment? Award-winning leadership and diversity expert Ritu Bhasin gives you the tools to make this happen. This is more than a call to "be yourself"-it's a rally to disrupt the status quo, bring your differences to the light, and help others do the same.

Download or read book Wired for Authenticity written by Henna Inam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to lead with authenticity and agility in a fast-changing world! “Wired for Authenticity is the definitive guide to your journey of self-awareness. Along the way, you will meet the colorful cast of characters that inhabit and inhibit you, and you will develop the skills you need to recognize, confront, and influence outcomes. Henna Inam’s vulnerable and irreverent style will enable you to unleash your inner authentic self.” —Alex Wellen, chief product officer, CNN “In Wired for Authenticity, Henna Inam reintroduces us to our original nature and offers practices to bring that authentic person to life! When our true selves show up to work, we can better connect with our teams, colleagues, family, and friends. Even more powerful, we give those around us permission to do the same. It is contagious!” —Kathleen Ciaramello, president, National Food Service and On-Premise, Coca-Cola Refreshments Leadership today is more challenging than ever. Trends including the rapid pace of change, constant restructuring, and a 24/7, always-on work environment are creating overwhelmed employees and eroding trust in workplaces. Organizations need leaders who drive engagement, innovation, and outstanding client experiences. How can you be this type of leader? Henna Inam shares proven strategies based on neuroscience research and her work as an executive coach and speaker, with clients who are executives in Fortune 500 companies. The practical tools she shares in this book have worked for her clients and can help you • practice a new model of authenticity to be more trusted and agile and less overwhelmed; • experience greater success and fulfillment in your leadership, workplace, and life; • engage and innfluence clients, peers, and bosses more powerfully; and • lead team members with more inspiration and ease.

Download or read book Authenticity written by James H. Gilmore and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of these words to describe what you sell—or how you sell it? If so, welcome to the club. Inundated by fakes and sophisticated counterfeits, people increasingly see the world in terms of real or fake. They would rather buy something real from someone genuine rather than something fake from some phony. When deciding to buy, consumers judge an offering's (and a company's) authenticity as much as—if not more than—price, quality, and availability. In Authenticity, James H. Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II argue that to trounce rivals companies must grasp, manage, and excel at rendering authenticity. Through examples from a wide array of industries as well as government, nonprofit, education, and religious sectors, the authors show how to manage customers' perception of authenticity by: recognizing how businesses "fake it;" appealing to the five different genres of authenticity; charting how to be "true to self" and what you say you are; and crafting and implementing business strategies for rendering authenticity. The first to explore what authenticity really means for businesses and how companies can approach it both thoughtfully and thoroughly, this book is a must-read for any organization seeking to fulfill consumers' intensifying demand for the real deal.

Download or read book All Things Lovely written by Jenn Johnson and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the first steps to living as a healthier and happier woman and discover the spiritual importance of acceptance, gathering, and community. Jenn Johnson has come to realize that the pursuit of perfection is unrealistic and unfair. Instead, we need to pause and reflect on what's in front of us. But how? How can we slow down? How can we remain focused on what's important and do things with intention? What can we pursue that represents God's heart for us, things that are true, noble, right, pure, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy? By pursuing all things "lovely." Living a holistic and holy life, a life marked by beauty and truth, means being mindful and intentional about what we put in our bodies, how we present ourselves to the world, the spaces we create, and the people we let into our lives. When we set our minds on what is lovely, we begin to see ourselves and the world as God intended. We begin to be wholly renewed.

Download or read book Journey to Authenticity written by R. Sonny Misar and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I invite you to come with me on a journey; a pilgrimage of sorts. This journey is not over land and sea, but is through the passages of the human soul. Our discoveries will not be of gold and lost cities, but of our own identity in Christ. This is a unique journey because it is directed by the hand of God. In fact, the word pilgrimage means a journey to a sacred place. That sacred place is where we find the mysterious mingling of both divine intention and human will. This spiritual journey enables us to discover ourselves, our God and our place in His greater purpose on earth. The journey of identity development has been the study of great minds, both Christian and secular. The classical Greek philosopher, Socrates, is quoted as wisely saying, "Know thyself." Then in 1891, from a more humanistic perspective, Oscar Wilde proclaimed, "Be thyself." Finally, Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, "There is no self-understanding without God-understanding - 'Know thy God' rather than 'Know Thyself' is the categorical imperative of the biblical man." Against the backdrop of these seemingly divergent views, we will explore the amazing world of Spiritual Identity Development. Don't let this unwieldy concept put you off. For the ideas of "Know thyself," "Know thy God" and "Be thyself" actually converge in the process of true spiritual maturity. You will notice that our journey will take a very practical approach. Much has been written from a theoretical perspective on this topic, but I've designed this book to serve as a personal guide to help travelers understand their own growth process in Christ. It's my prayer that God will use this book to shed light on what can be a mysterious and shadowy road through life. The psalmist said, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." Psalm 119:105 Beyond being another self-help approach, this pilgrimage will allow us to see that God is behind our movement and progress. He is at the center of this unfolding plan...not us. Indeed, all history is "His story" and we are called to find our place in it.

Download or read book The Authenticity Project written by Clare Pooley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller A WASHINGTON POST “FEEL-GOOD BOOK guaranteed to lift your spirits” “A warm, charming tale about the rewards of revealing oneself, warts and all.” —People The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love Clare Pooley's next book, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting, is forthcoming Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes—in a plain, green journal—the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It's run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves—and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica's Café. The Authenticity Project's cast of characters—including Hazard, the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice, the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends—is by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It's a story about being brave and putting your real self forward—and finding out that it's not as scary as it seems. In fact, it looks a lot like happiness. The Authenticity Project is just the tonic for our times that readers are clamoring for—and one they will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure.

Download or read book Stories of Becoming Myself written by Cate Montana and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gutsy, often heart-breaking, frequently shocking, and always totally real, seventeen "everyday" women chronicle their breakthroughs overcoming lack, abuse, intense religious programming, and every kind of self-imposed limitation you can imagine, blossoming into the richness of their true being and life expression. A book to savor and draw courage from, Stories of Becoming Myself is a celebration of woman--her endurance, her daring and determination, and most of all her love. Stories by: Cate Montana, Betsy Chasse, Angelina J. James, Enocha Ranjita Ryan, Barbara Glazier, Angela Clark, Amanda Robinson, Barbara Belger, Ashleigh Brenton, Andrea Scholz, Anne Armstrong, Sandhan, Stephanie Jo, Michele Dorntge, Bonnie Hale, Lisa Robyn Deutsch

Download or read book Seeking Authenticity written by Flint Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking Authenticity provides reflection, insight, and humor, packaged into a series of essays and short stories. The essays integrate philosophy from the past and produce a spark for contemplation over timeless fundamental values. This writing aims to interrogate and explore an eminent buzzword of our era: Authenticity.Do you spend your time well? Are you honest? Grateful? Resilient? Responsible? Do you have purpose? How do these questions and ideas lead to authenticity in your own life? Explorations into these values are expressed in parallel with the story of a near year-long surfing and hiking adventure from British Columbia, Canada to Queensland, Australia, with stops down the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii. These stories encompass sometimes poetic, sometimes sarcastic, yet always honest, expression.

Download or read book The Journey to Authenticity written by Mitchell L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to finally, once and for all get to the place that you have always dreamed you would be by now? Do you want to experience love, joy, and peace that you have only imagined possible? Do you want to live free from fear and full of faith? In this book, I share my journey with you from my childhood to manhood. I will take you into my struggles and pain with my identity and sexuality, and through it you will be able to see yourself and identify with me. More than that, you will be able to feel the spirit and energy of freedom that comes as you read the pages and walk with me to a peaceful place of success and authenticity. This is not a writing for the sake of writing, but this book was a must that as you encounter the stories and principles herein, you yourself will be taking through the depths of your own life to help you to get to the desired place where you walk in true wealth and abundance that can only be realized through self-awareness and self-discovery.