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The Clue of the Red Thread

Discovering Fearlessness and Compassion in Uncertain Times

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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The Clue of the Red Thread

Discovering Fearlessness and Compassion in Uncertain Times

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Julie Tallard Johnson offers numerous practices and strategies for navigating what she calls the greatest adventure of our lifetime: going inward to discover who we truly are.

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Nine Rivers

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1951651650

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9781951651657

Spiritual Journaling

Writing Your Way to Independence

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Spiritual Journaling

Writing Your Way to Independence

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

A guide for teens and young adults on the power of creative journaling and its role in enhancing self-discovery and self-awareness • Provides encouragement for creative writing, self-expression, and self-dialogue • Includes journaling exercises to inspire creativity and cultivate self-esteem • By the author of Teen Psychic and The Thundering Years, winner of the 2002 Independent Publisher Book Award for multicultural juvenile nonfiction Most teens and young adults search for ways to express their individuality and to discover who they are, without being judged. In Spiritual Journaling Julie Tallard Johnson shows that journaling is an informative and supportive outlet for the joys, frustrations, and questions that arise for those making the transition toward their own independent ideas and lives--and a powerful tool for awakening creative potential. Johnson encourages young people to discover their own unique voices by offering guidance on writing and other forms of self-expression and self-dialogue and on learning how to listen to inner wisdom. As readers move through the book and write in their own personal journals, they gain insight about themselves--knowledge reflected in their own words and the writing of other young people included in the book. The journaling tools provided include meditations, consulting oracles, writing poetry, visualizations, writing rituals, and problem solving around spiritual questions.

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Simon and Schuster

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159477675X

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9781594776755

The Zero Point Agreement

How to Be Who You Already Are

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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The Zero Point Agreement

How to Be Who You Already Are

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

A practical guide to stop searching for meaning by creating meaning from within • Explains how we can only discover who we are by naming what we want to be and taking steps to make it a reality • Offers simple evidence-based methods to generate enthusiasm, creativity, and direct spiritual experience and to co-create with the natural world as our ancestors did • Presents 11 core principles for living life from within, such as how to take full responsibility for motivation and effort, express gratitude, and focus your intention Everyone wants to experience purpose and inspiration in their lives, but the search for meaning often leaves a seeker in the hands of fate. Offering a different approach to self-discovery, one where we create our meaning from within rather than seek it from the outside world, Julie Tallard Johnson shows there is a science behind personal spiritual experiences and creativity. She reveals simple evidence-based methods that can be applied to any situation to generate enthusiasm, inspiration, and direct spiritual experience and transform the inner and outer landscapes of your life. Drawing from the Heart Sutra, the I Ching, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of the Dalai Lama, Joseph Campbell, and the Kadampa master Atisha, Johnson outlines a practice centered on what she calls the Zero Point Agreement--the realization that you are the zero point of your life, that life’s purpose comes from within. She explains how to discover who you truly are by naming what you want to be and taking steps to make it a reality. Providing 11 core principles for the Zero Point Agreement as well as thought exercises, meditations, and journaling practices, Johnson shows how to break free from negative habitual states, liberate yourself from your attachment to the behaviors of others, take full responsibility for motivation and effort, express gratitude, focus your intention, and learn to co-create with the natural world. She also explores how to transform repressed material and how to apply the Zero Point Agreement to heal both personal and global relationships. Revealing how we can tap in to the creative, creational power that lies within and around each of us, Johnson offers a spiritual technology for self-illumination, creative restructuring of your life, and manifestation of your life’s purpose.

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Simon and Schuster

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1620551780

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9781620551783

The Thundering Years

Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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The Thundering Years

Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

Shows teens how to harness the intense emotions and drives of the late-teen years using wisdom from cultures around the world. • Includes exercises, personal and community rituals, and resources that show how to successfully navigate the Thundering Years without heading toward violence, drug abuse, and other self-destructive behaviors. • Includes inspiring quotations from many spiritual traditions as well as the words and real-life experiences of other young adults. • Presents an honest view of the passions and pain that occur during this major life transition. According to native traditions, the Thundering Years are the time in life to listen to intense feelings, dreams, desires, and goals--to be outrageous and even difficult. The Thundering Years are the teen years, the time when you are journeying into adulthood. They are exciting years, full of potential and creative energy, and they are painful years, full of turmoil and self-examination. Author Julie Tallard Johnson has collected wisdom from cultures around the world to help you survive your Thundering Years with your soul, creativity, and even sense of humor intact. She offers numerous techniques and traditions to help harness the powerful energy released during this time. She shows that when you connect with your thunder in a respectful way, you are given the confidence you need to accomplish all your dreams. Includes: Mindfulness and energizing meditations Vision quests Dream weaving Drum medicine Initiations and rites of passage Rituals for releasing anger and celebrating the seasons Making your own journals and medicine bags Finding your creative community

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Simon and Schuster

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1594776075

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9781594776076

Teen Psychic

Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Teen Psychic

Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

Teaches teens to develop and use their intuitive powers • Includes quizzes, meditations, journal entries, popular quotes, and fun exercises to introduce teens to their intuitive powers • Combines both contemporary and ancient stories of spiritual and intuitive empowerment • By the author of The Thundering Years: Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens, winner of the 2002 Independent Publisher Book Award for multicultural juvenile nonfiction In Teen Psychic, award-winning author Julie Tallard Johnson provides a fun, meaningful process for developing your intuitive powers, as well as practical guidance in applying those powers to your personal spiritual journey. The wisdom teachings of numerous traditions blended with activities--such as meditations, exercises, journalizing, and quizzes--will help you tap into a reservoir of inner strength and knowledge, increasing your confidence and self-esteem. Ancient stories and contemporary teen experiences of spiritual and intuitive empowerment, as well as the author's own insightful narrative, show you how to connect to your inner wisdom and to the greater wisdom that surrounds you. With inspiring quotations from a diverse group of wisdomkeepers including Caroline Myss, Black Elk, Anodea Judith, Myron Eshowsky, and Chögyam Trungpa, Teen Psychic helps you discover your true nature by accessing your intuitive powers and developing your psychic self.

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Simon and Schuster

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1594776016

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9781594776014

I Ching for Teens

Take Charge of Your Destiny with the Ancient Chinese Oracle

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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I Ching for Teens

Take Charge of Your Destiny with the Ancient Chinese Oracle

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

The only comprehensive guide to the I Ching especially for teens. • The first translation of the I Ching that speaks directly to teens, the fastest growing segment of the book-buying public. • Includes down-to-earth descriptions of the original hexagrams and practical examples of how they can be applied to the teen experience. What shall I do with my life? Are my friends really friends? Whether used as a meaningful tool for self-discovery or as a fun game with friends, the I Ching for Teens can help teens answer the questions that are important to them. They can use this hip, down-to-earth translation to gain insight into a wide range of topics--from getting along with parents, friends, and romantic interests to finding a direction for the future. The I Ching has been used for centuries as a means to divine the future, understand the present, and discover personal truth. With its ancient roots and widespread popularity, the I Ching has gone through many interpretations to keep its wisdom accessible and alive. Now, for the first time, Julie Tallard Johnson offers a fresh translation of this ancient text developed especially for teens. Johnson provides guidance in the voice of a wise older sibling while retaining the authority and integrity of the original text. Each hexagram features stories, descriptions, quotes, and advice tailored to reflect and respect the unique nature of the teen experience. Teens will have a blast with the book's fun, contemporary style while developing their ability to seek truth, formulate meaningful questions, and find answers from within.

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Simon and Schuster

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1594775486

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The Clue of the Red Thread

Discovering Fearlessness and Compassion in Uncertain Times

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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The Clue of the Red Thread

Discovering Fearlessness and Compassion in Uncertain Times

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

In Greek mythology, Ariadne held authority over the mazes and labyrinths located beneath the palace of Knossos on Crete, including the labyrinth that housed the deadly Minotaur. When Theseus came to attempt to free the people from the Minotaur, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to mark his passage in and out of the labyrinth. The thread was the key to successfully navigating the labyrinth’s many twists and turns, and Theseus ultimately confronted the Minotaur. In her teaching, Julie Tallard Johnson notes that metaphorically, we all spend our lives in a labyrinth, regularly having to face forked paths, contradictory twists and turns, and dead ends. Red thread is a rich analogy for the wisdom passed on to us from generations of spiritual teachers, and this wisdom guides us through our labyrinths. In The Clue of the Red Thread, Johnson, longtime student of author, teacher, and activist Parker J. Palmer, offers numerous practices and strategies for navigating what she calls the greatest adventure of our lifetime: going inward to discover who we truly are, then returning outward to blossom into a fearless and compassionate citizen, living with integrity while both keeping hold of the red thread in our own lives and moving forward to pass it on to others.

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Nine Rivers, an imprint of Shanti Arts Publishing

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1951651669

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9781951651664

Spiritual Journaling

Writing Your Way to Independence

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Writing Your Way to Independence

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The Zero Point Agreement

How to Be Who You Already Are

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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How to Be Who You Already Are

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Wheel of Initiation

Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Wheel of Initiation

Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

A guide to personal spiritual initiation through the transformation of habitual patterns, apathy, and resistance • Based on the Native American medicine wheel, the Vedic wheel, and the universal initiatory mandala • Enables readers from any tradition to initiate themselves through practices of thought transformation, narrative medicine, meditation exercises, rituals, and journaling • Facilitates breaking through personal and societal illusions that perpetuate resistance and apathy Intentions and spiritual principles, meditation and contemplation, ritual, and risk-taking are the conditions that comprise an initiated life. Regrettably, in modern society we do not have rites of initiation that break through the personal and societal illusions that instill and perpetuate negative habits that keep us in states of resistance. Lacking initiation practices, we often remain trapped in ways of being in the world that were formed by our past conditions and attachments. We tend to identify too strongly with the status quo, which must be challenged to prevent stagnation and to encourage happiness and authenticity. Julie Tallard Johnson shows how to become initiated into an authentic life through practices of thought transformation, cultivating attention, journaling, storytelling, and rituals found in the four directions of the universal mandala. She begins the Wheel of Initiation in the South, where initiates set their intentions; then moves into the West, where they free themselves from habitual patterns and core beliefs; then into the North, the direction of cultivating attention and unity; and finishes in the East, the direction of regeneration and initiation. Drawing upon the life experiences of those who have successfully navigated the wheel, Johnson demonstrates that once fears, assumptions, and ingrained beliefs are confronted and transformed, initiates emerge ready to reenter society with renewed energy and vision that will enrich their own lives and their communities.

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Simon and Schuster

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1591439698

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The Thundering Years

Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens

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Wheel of Initiation

Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light

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Teen Psychic

Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers

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I Ching for Teens

Take Charge of Your Destiny with the Ancient Chinese Oracle

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Take Charge of Your Destiny with the Ancient Chinese Oracle

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1594775486

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Understanding Mental Illness

For Teens who Care about Someone with Mental Illness

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Understanding Mental Illness

For Teens who Care about Someone with Mental Illness

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

Examines the different mental illnesses and offers assistance for those living with the mentally ill.

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Lerner Publications

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0822500426

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9780822500421

Hidden Victims, Hidden Healers

An Eight-stage Healing Process for Family and Friends of the Mentally Ill

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Hidden Victims, Hidden Healers

An Eight-stage Healing Process for Family and Friends of the Mentally Ill

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

The impetus of this book began with a personal search of mine for support groups for families of those with mental illness. I had a brother with Schizophrenia. I was also finishing up my graduate degree in Social Work (back in 1982). What these groups for families of the mentally ill “supported” concerned me. What I typically found were dysfunctional groups supporting negative and even hostile mindsets. Most of them encouraged a victim mentality to the surrounding culture and to the mental illness. When I considered using other group processes such as the 12 Steps, it didn't convert well enough to help family members struggling with a loved one's persistent and chronic mental illness. I also recognized that mental illness happens within the context of a family – not just the individual. Too often these groups focused on the mentally ill person at the expense of the family's over-all own mental health and the health of other family members. I discovered in my research that how the family responds to the mental illness will either be part of the antidote or continued problem. In any give difficulty we are either part of the problem or part of the solution. I intended to offer a means for family members and friends to be part of a solution. Furthermore, families and their individual members are all personally affected by the disruption and difficulties brought on through living with mental illness. Those living with mental illness secondarily through a loved one also needed an aggressive healing path to help them live with (and sometimes beyond) the mental illness. So, I developed the Eight Stage Healing Process. My combined personal and professional experiences contributed to the chosen Stages. Furthermore, I researched what works and what doesn't work in such support groups. When securing a publisher for the book I insisted that “coping” be left out of the title. Everyone is coping – the Eight Stages takes one beyond just coping with mental illness and the surrounding family dynamics and helps individuals and families heal. Twenty years later I still find, along with thousands of other family members that the Eight Stages is an authentic healing process that benefits all family members.The Eight Stages are;Stage One:Stage Two:Stage Three:Stage Four:Stage Five:Stage Six:Stage Seven:Stage Eight: The Eight Stages can be used individually or within a group context. If in a group, I have available the Facilitator's Manual to use as a guide: Title here. Now the Eight Stages is the most used program for families in Australia and used throughout Canada and the United States.

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P E M A Publications Incorporated

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0964043009

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9780964043008

Hidden Victims

An Eight-stage Healing Process for Families and Friends of the Mentally Ill

By: Julie Tallard Johnson

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Hidden Victims

An Eight-stage Healing Process for Families and Friends of the Mentally Ill

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Provides comprehensive information for families of the mentally ill, including procedures for enhancing family communication, working out guilt and anger, genetic counseling, and starting a self-help group

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Doubleday Books

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0385242123

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9780385242127

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