Books to Buy
A fresh, green remedy for times of stress
This delicious little book, The Answer: How
Nature Can Help You When Life Seems Too Hard, is her perfect antidote
for all those times you’ve wailed, ‘I can’t cope any more!’
Available in hardcover for $NZ19.95 at good bookstores or through this website.
| Hardcover NZ$19.95 |
Option two:
Download as a beautiful e-book to
enjoy on-screen any time you want to immerse yourself in nature.
E-book
price: $9.95NZ.
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converter. The price equates to about $6US (depending on daily
currency fluctuations). Note that The Answer’s many
lush colour images make this a 5MB file, so allow a few minutes for
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| E-book NZ$9.95 |
In these frazzled times, words like ‘natural’, ‘green’ and ‘fresh’ are balm for busy lives. So The Answer is for everyone who feels up tight, locked in or stressed out.
In these frazzled times, words like ‘natural’, ‘green’ and ‘fresh’ are balm for busy lives. So The Answer is for everyone who feels up tight, locked in or stressed out.
All about nature’s power to heal, it is written by Lindsey Dawson, founding editor of four popular New Zealand magazines and the author of six previous books. “We all know it’s good to get out into nature,” she says, “but sometimes we just can’t do it when we need to. The Answer is for when you’re dying for the luscious feeling of sand or grass under your feet but just can’t get there.”
The book reveals how nature whispers (and sometimes shouts!) helpful signals at us - offering a host of clues for bumping up our sense of energy, 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.
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.
Lindsey Dawson interviews more than 50 New Zealanders and
plumbs prime moments in her own life to reveal how it’s
possible to navigate the midlife years with guts, grace and
gratitude. These stories reveal how people can absorb huge
shocks - whether in love, work, family, health or finances
- and then forge on to face whatever else may be coming up
next.
Pacy, racy and practical, Wise Up explores many real-life
dramas of people who’ve somehow come through pain and
rage to find new strengths. “They told me amazing stories,”
says Lindsey. “The truth is our lives test us all the
time, even when we pretend there’s not much going on.
And it’s only in the rich and juicy middle years, when
we’re really wising up to the world, that we get to
know our true inner grit.”
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
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 bodies are forged from the four elements, and so are the ways in which we interact with each other. Ignore the elements' influence in our lives and stress begins to build.
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.
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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 2009-2010 Lindsey Dawson