Books to Buy

THE ANSWER
A remedy for times of stress

The Answer: How Nature Can Help You When Life Seems Too Hard by Lindsey DawsonThis delicious little book, The Answer: How Nature Can Help You When Life Seems Too Hard, is the perfect antidote for all those times you've wailed, 'I can't cope any more!'

Usually $NZ19.95, it's now on sale for $NZ10.00, with ALL proceeds going to the Red Cross relief fund for Christchurch. Nature did her worst in two earthquakes there - but this book reveals nature's healing side...always available to us in times of stress. SEE HOME PAGE FOR HOW-TO-BUY DETAILS.

The Answer is for anyone who feels up tight, locked in or stressed out.

Nature shows its terrifying side in earthquakes and storms, but this book is about nature's power to heal. The Answer is for when you're dying for the silence of a calm day or for the luscious feeling of sand or grass under your feet but all those things are out of reach.

It reveals how nature whispers (and sometimes shouts!) helpful signals at us - offering a host of clues for bumping up our optimism and faith in the future.

Luscious, full-colour images by Trish Whillans enhance every page in the story line, which will ring 'me-too' bells for everyone who's ever felt tired, fed up, or stretched so thinly they think they'll snap.

Some reader feedback on The Answer

"This afternoon I sat down and read your wonderful book. Thank you. It is most appreciated. A book that shall sit by my bedside when I am meditating." - Ilona Rodgers

"The Answer has the most beautiful photos I have ever seen along with 'food for thought' words. It is truly and uniquely New Zealand which is what I love." - Sue Kellett.

"I  loved your gorgeous little book, The Answer . As each page is turned, it leads on to another unique and inspiring message, captured all the more by the beautiful photography.  I found the wisdom of your words very soothing and motivational." - Linnie Osborne

WISE UP: How to be Fearless and Fulfilled in Midlife by Lindsey DawsonWISE UP! How to be Fearless and Fulfilled in Midlife.

Non-fiction. Published by Random House, $NZ24.95

Wise Up: How to be Fearless and Fulfilled in Midlife is a self-help book for people who are 40-plus. It focuses on attitude. Today's midlifers, baby boomers all, are true believers that 40 is the new 30 and 50 is the new 40. Refusing to go quietly into maturity, they are breaking the mould of what it means to be middle-aged. But still, none of it's easy.

Pacy, racy and practical, Wise Up explores many real-life dramas of 50 people who came through pain and rage to find new strengths.

Chapter by chapter, Wise Up focuses on the aptitudes and attitudes we'd all like to own as we wrestle with gaining strength, relevance, clarity, wisdom fitness, sexiness, contentment, reconciliation, fulfilment, good health, courage and optimism in midlife.

Says Lindsey: 'All we can do is set off on the tangled paths of our lives and find our own way through.

'It's often lonely, but it doesn't need to be. These stories reveal that many others are going through the same hassles and that it is possible to get to a place where you can say, 'Hey, I may be getting wrinkly but I'm having a really good time'."

Wise up is a valuable resource and entertaining read.

THE ELEMENTAL YOU: Discover and Delight in Your Primal Personality by Lindsey Dawson THE ELEMENTAL YOU:
Discover and Delight in Your Primal Personality

Non-fiction. Published by Random House NZ. $NZ14.95

Who we are and how we behave goes right back to our origins in nature.

The Elemental You reveals how we can thrive even in these high-tech times by remembering we are forged from just four basic natural elements - fire, air, earth and water. This book re-connects us with those forces to help us better understand ourselves, our loved ones, and how we all fit together on our noisy, teeming planet.

Our ancient ancestors knew their power. But, fenced off from nature by our air-conditioned walls of steel and glass, we've largely forgotten where we've come from.

Today the elements play out their dramas in a world that many of us don't often feel, see, touch or smell any more.

For city people who are inside all day and get their meals from microwaves or fast-food stores, nature has become a very distant beast, its beauties and its terrors glimpsed only occasionally on the nightly news.

It's time we got to know it again.

This book, gorgeously illustrated with photos by Trish Whillans, is the perfect gift for anyone who seeks to celebrate who they are and cherish their unique character.

The fire in you gives you courage The earth in you gives you stability
The water in you gives you serenity The air in you gives you creativity

What do the elements do for you?

All four have the power to lend strength to your life.

  • The fire in you gives you courage
  • The earth in you gives you stability
  • The water in you gives you serenity
  • The air in you gives you creativity

We all have those attributes in different degrees. And we need all of them to achieve balance and satisfaction in our lives.

The Elemental You reveals how to see which of those influences affect your character the most.

It includes.

  • a look back in history to see how other cultures celebrated four-fold gifts
  • a quiz to help you define your major elemental type
  • advice on the friends you need to help balance your life
  • and guided meditation to draw you closer to nature

With its lush photos and poetic quotes, The Elemental You steps back for a moment from the 21 st century's noise and dazzle to re-ground readers on the place we've all sprung from - this beautiful Earth.

© Copyright 2009-2011 Lindsey Dawson