What is the secret to lasting love? How do couples create a beautiful marriage of love and respect that will last for a lifetime? These are questions American writer Susan Tiberghien is asked most often at writers' conferences held in the United States and Europe. These questions took her on a journey of personal reflection. Meditating on what led her to fall in love with a Frenchman and what went right in their marriage, she recalled the good moments and began writing them down. Susan and her husband Pierre have been married for more than fifty-five years. They raised six children while living in five different countries. SIDE BY SIDE: WRITING YOUR LOVE STORY is a memoir of Susan's marriage and an invitation to you, the reader, to write your own love story with your partner. SIDE BY SIDE: WRITING YOUR LOVE STORY is organized by seven stages of a relationship: courtship, commitment, outward reflection, inward reflection, growing, wellbeing, and celebrating. Beginning with falling in love and courtship, Susan shows you how to recall those early moments of seduction and being seduced. This dance between partners is key to the next stage of commitment. Marriage is beautiful because it is a commitment couples choose to renew with one another every day. Whether you are engaged to be married, or you've been married for a few days or for more than 20,075 days (fifty-five years), it is natural to experience feelings that lead you to question the commitment you made do each other. Everyone has doubts. The journal practice exercises in this chapter help to explore both the sunny and dark side of doubts, allowing you to focus and to build on what is working in the relationship. As a couple, you face many challenges together, especially with raising children and working outside of the home. SIDE BY SIDE: WRITING YOUR LOVE STORY is filled with life stories every parent understands, especially when each partner was raised in a different country. For instance, what will be the family's common language? In addition to managing cultural differences, all parents share the same challenges around discipline, rules, and the unique needs of each child. Journal prompts provide a framework for your memories and insights. Described by her readers as a lyrical writer with a compassionate approach to telling and sharing life stories, Susan weaves her journal entries and life stories throughout the book, and adds inspirational quotes from well-known writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Brenda Ueland, William Zinsser, Dorothea Brande, Annie Dillard, and Thomas Merton. When you make writing a habit, you change your life story. SIDE BY SIDE: WRITING YOUR LOVE STORY teaches you how to make writing a habit and how to transform your story as a couple into your marriage memoir, expressing the best of each of you as an individual, and the powerful entity you are as two people who love each other.
The author relates an experience that belongs to everyone -- the experience of soul. Susan Tiberghien shares a year of dreams, analysis, daily life. A writer, mother, woman in love, she enters her inner world, experiencing vertigo and breathlessness until she lets the light and darkness fuse within her. Each of the chapters marks a turn, with a dream and an epiphany. They build upon one another, as the reader enters cyclical time, discovering that dreams, too, have their seasons.
Whether you are a writer of fiction or essays, or want to explore poetry or memoir, Tiberghien's twelve fundamental lessons will help you discover and develop your own distinct voice. Tiberghien's inventive exercises focus on the processes unique to each genre, while also offering skills applicable to any kind of writing, from authentic dialogue to masterful short-shorts. With vivid examples from literary masters such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Eduardo Galeano, May Sarton, Terry Tempest Williams, and Orhan Pamuk, One Year to a Writing Life is an essential guidebook of exercises, practical advice, and wisdom for anyone looking to embrace, explore, and implement creativity in everyday life.
A luminous spiritual memoir inviting the reader to the practice of silent prayer. Rooted in her Judeo-Christian tradition, the author welcomes the wisdom of other traditions and calls us to embrace our shared humanity. In this 20th Anniversary Edition, Tiberghien writes an Afterword to update her journey, opening the confines of her own darkness and finding atonement in the natural world and in the presence of Sophia, the ‘hidden wholeness’ of creation.
Whether you are a writer of fiction or essays, or want to explore poetry or memoir, Tiberghien's twelve fundamental lessons will help you discover and develop your own distinct voice. Tiberghien's inventive exercises focus on the processes unique to each genre, while also offering skills applicable to any kind of writing, from authentic dialogue to masterful short-shorts. With vivid examples from literary masters such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Eduardo Galeano, May Sarton, Terry Tempest Williams, and Orhan Pamuk, One Year to a Writing Life is an essential guidebook of exercises, practical advice, and wisdom for anyone looking to embrace, explore, and implement creativity in everyday life.
“Looking for Gold is a laboratory for artists, dreamers, and all who seek for ways to realize their true gold.” - Robert Bosnak, author of The Little Course in Dreams “Tiberghien is a writer … Looking for Gold tells a gripping tale that will inspire anyone who hears soul’s subtle invitation and sets out.” - Kathleen Packard, Contemporary Contributions to Jungian Psychology “Looking for Gold is a clear, important message for men and women of all ages and all cultures – look into and to thyself for a sense of wholeness.” - Annette Lyons, Director, Counseling Center, American Cathedral, Paris “In her insightful Looking for Gold, Tiberghien writes several books in one: an autobiography, an exploration of the writing process and an account of being a lay student of C.G. Jung’s work.” -Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
A luminous spiritual memoir inviting the reader to the practice of silent prayer. Rooted in her Judeo-Christian tradition, the author welcomes the wisdom of other traditions and calls us to embrace our shared humanity. In this 20th Anniversary Edition, Tiberghien writes an Afterword to update her journey, opening the confines of her own darkness and finding atonement in the natural world and in the presence of Sophia, the ‘hidden wholeness’ of creation.
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