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Current titles
	The Moon Shines Out of the Dark by Stephanie Dowrick A tender, deeply reassuring story for 4-8 year old girls and boys from leading writer Stephanie Dowrick and award-winning artist Anne Spudvilas. The story tells how Harry waits through a long night for his Mum...and for the moon, while thinking about all that's lovely in his life. A positive, delightful story that with subtlety acknowledges the child's inner world of imagination and emotion. In Store Price: $24.99 Online Price: $23.74
	The Universal Heart by Stephanie Dowrick A life worth living is a life of love. Love is the currency that transcends all others. Love connects us most deeply to our best selves, as well as to other people. The presence or absence of love makes the greatest difference to our happiness, our health and wellbeing. Yet seeking love and sustaining it continues to disappoint many people. In this powerful and practical book, Stephanie Dowrick affirms our highest ideals and intentions. Better still, she shows us how possible it is to live them out. With the compassion and psychological depth that is the hallmark of her writing, she also explores the common pitfalls to love. Then, with persuasive wisdom, she helps us to transform them. Perhaps what also makes this book exceptional is that Stephanie Dowrick shows us how to live more appreciatively across all our relationships, including with our own selves. Through her powers of storytelling, she demonstrates that anything worth discovering about love improves not one but every one of our connections. In a world where fears of not being or having enough dominate, she proves that love is ours to discover, to give and to receive. In Store Price: $26.99 Online Price: $25.64
	Everyday Kindness by Stephanie Dowrick Virtually every moment of our greatest wellbeing reflects the giving and receiving of kindness. At home, work and in the wider world, there are countless opportunities when a moment of consideration or kindness - given or received - will transform your day. Whether it is a hard time to be endured, or a wonderful time to be shared and celebrated, it's our willingness to think well of ourselves and act kindly towards others that makes all the difference. In this intimate, deeply reassuring book, Choosing Happiness author Dr Stephanie Dowrick takes kindness as her inspiration and theme. And she does so in ways that are powerfully encouraging. Whether she is writing about food or moods, about growing in self-confidence and appreciation, teaching resilience to our children or ourselves, making the best choices to support our physical and emotional wellbeing, the pleasures and dilemmas of contemporary work, parenting, friendship and love, or even how to improve or save our closest relationships - Stephanie Dowrick is making a calmer, happier and more rewarding life immediately possible. In Store Price: $27.99 Online Price: $26.59
	Seeking the Sacred by Stephanie Dowrick At a time when religion is frequently seen as a cause of prejudice or violence, or as irrelevant to our most pressing personal or global concerns, the eternal truths of a truly inclusive spiritual wisdom have never been more badly needed - or more urgently sought. In this exciting and highly engaging book Stephanie Dowrick invites us to go way beyond our usual ambitions for psychological insight or spirituality. Weaving personal stories of sacred seeking with an inspired vision of life's possibilities, she shows how 'the sacred' becomes meaningful in today's world through perspective and behaviour - and especially through the ways we think about and treat other people, and care for ourselves. Here is a book that invites a deepened engagement with all of life, including the transcendent. It offers greater confidence, gratitude and a renewal of courage and hope as well as peace of mind. It also goes straight to the heart of some of our most complex contemporary dilemmas: identity, relationships, suffering, meaning and purpose, the desire to heal and connect rather than harm. Practical and serene as well as richly hopeful, Seeking the Sacred offers a profound, affirming conversation about life that is inspiring, generous and unconditionally inclusive. In Store Price: $32.99 Online Price: $31.34
	In the Company of Rilke by Stephanie Dowrick In the Company of Rilke is a rare book about a rare poet. Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who is increasingly a visionary voice for our own time, captivating readers not only with his brilliance but also his fearlessness about the 'deepest things'. Speaking through his own contradictions and ambivalences, he gives readers a profound understanding of the complex beauty of human existence. Here, questions matter more than answers. Here, a poet can speak directly to God while also doubting God. Astonishingly, this is the first major study of Rilke from a spiritual perspective, yet the greatest of Rilke's gifts was to show how inevitably life centres upon a profound mystery - to which we can freely open ourselves. Drawing on her own deep understanding of the gifts of reading, as well as her personal spiritual seeking, Stephanie Dowrick offers an intimate understanding of this most exceptional poet and his transcendent, piercingly beautiful work. In Store Price: $35.00 Online Price: $33.25
	Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love by Stephanie Dowrick In this groundbreaking book Stephanie Dowrick brings hope and fresh insight to readers - no matter what their outer circumstances. Showing that what we pay most attention to will either support or undermine us - she reconsiders the six great humane virtues that can literally transform the way we see ourselves and others; the way we meet and move through difficulties or grief; the way that we can newly appreciate and treasure our own and others' gift of life. Starting with courage, they also include generosity, restraint and forgiveness. This book has been treasured by tens of thousands of readers and is now available in a beautiful new edition. In Store Price: $26.99 Online Price: $25.64
	Choosing Happiness by Stephanie Dowrick A beautiful, wise book that will answer your deepest as well as your most everyday psychological and spiritual questions. Written in short sections to meet the needs of busy readers, this No.1. bestseller takes the reader way beyond issues of happiness. Here you will find a great wealth of highly practical yet compassionate and uplifting insights about all kinds of everyday situations, from trusting who you already are, weathering emotional storms, building self-respect, and genuinely considering and encouraging other people. Intimacy, parenting, forgiveness, making wise choices - and wonderful material on how to cultivate a more positive and resilient attitude towards life and living - make this book essential reading for women and men at every stage of their emotional development. 'Stephanie Dowrick makes the hard questions simple; she makes the impossible real and possible. Her wisdom is contagious. If anyone can cause a happiness revolution, she can.' - Paul Wilson, author of the 'Calm' books "This book may be Stephanie Dowrick's most accessible and useful so far" Canberra Times "Written with lightness and elegance...a modern bible for the soul" The Age In Store Price: $35.00 Online Price: $33.25
	Creative Journal Writing by Stephanie Dowrick Writing a journal can literally be life-changing. But where do you start? How do you avoid falling into the boredom traps? Can you justify the time spent on yourself? Can journal writing really make the world around you a fresher and more engaging place? In this deeply encouraging book, you will discover that far more than just recording events, or "venting", journal writing can be the means to develop your own unique take on the world and to view and experience your life with renewed interest and discernment. Journal writing is the companion that supports but doesn't judge. It can be a place of discovery, of learning, of emotional relief and insight - and of creativity that will positively affect every aspect of your personal and working life. Creative Journal Writing offers an irresistible invitation to both newcomers and experienced journal writers. Sharing brief stories from many other journal writers, as well as many stories and examples from her own writing life, and a huge range of fail-safe exercises and prompts, Stephanie Dowrick uses her many years of experience as a best-selling writer of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as her earlier years as a publisher, teacher of creative writing and psychotherapist, to bring out the journal writer in everyone. In Store Price: $27.95 Online Price: $26.55
	The Almost-perfect Marriage by Stephanie Dowrick The Almost-Perfect Marriage is a book which offers "one-minute relationship skills" - that quick moment of clarity and practical insight that really can make a difference. Beautifully designed, and with time-poor readers in mind, it combines inspiration with information. Each page is a distinct "thought", most of them short enough to be read very quickly, yet with sufficient depth to bring people back to a more loving and generous frame of mind. Following in the footsteps of Choosing Happiness, Stephanie's Number One bestseller, the same principles of good humour, kindness and thoughtfulness will support genuinely rewarding and robust relationships. The book focuses on strengths and never "preaches". It is suitable for people in all kinds of committed intimate relationships, and for people at all stages of their relationships from the newly committed to those who have been together for years. "All you need is love" - and the simple, clear and effective attitudes and behaviours needed to keep love alive! In Store Price: $19.95 Online Price: $18.95
	Choosing Happiness by Stephanie Dowrick Stephanie Dowrick's immensely popular book is beautifully read here by actor Carmen Warrington. Please note that Seeking the Sacred and Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love are also available in Bolinda audio editions. In Store Price: $39.95 Online Price: $37.95
	Seeking the Sacred by Stephanie Dowrick This is the audio edition of Dr Stephanie Dowrick's intimate, inspiring book, Seeking the Sacred, described by Claire Scobie in the Sydney Morning Herald as "A chalice of wisdom". Whether you are a "seeker" or simply curious, this book speaks to some of our most pressing concerns, socially and personally, about what constitutes a more generous, rewarding life. Strong also on memoir and story, it lends itself particularly well to the personal voice of the author, and the intimacy of Stephanie Dowrick telling this story. 12 hours; 10 CDs, beautifully produced at the Bolinda studios in Melbourne. In Store Price: $39.95 Online Price: $37.95
	Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love by Stephanie Dowrick Recorded by Stephanie Dowrick herself, and with the finest production values, this is the complete unabridged audio version of Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love, which Dowrick often describes as her "best loved best seller". Particularly powerful for those at any "crossroads" moments, or in need of greater clarity and inner support. Highly recommended. In Store Price: $39.95 Online Price: $37.95
	Free Thinking by Stephanie Dowrick Stephanie Dowrick's greatest gift is that she reminds us that life really matters. Her territory takes her from the profound to the everyday, but always with attention to the biggest question of all: How should we live?' Stephanie's bestsellers, Intimacy & Solitude, The Universal Heart and Forgiveness & Other Acts of Love, are all books with a genuine power to change lives for the better. Here we meet her in a more personal and confidential frame of mind. In chapters short enough to enjoy in a single reading, she offers her views on subjects as various as how to worry less and praise more; ageing appreciatively; parenting; why and how to meditate; why doubt can be useful and how burnout can be avoided. Free Thinking gives the reader the nearest thing to a series of brief, intense conversations with a woman who has thought deeply, writes beautifully and, even when she is confessing to her all-too human faults, never fails to uplift and inspire. In Store Price: $24.95 Online Price: $23.70
	Intimacy & Solitude by Stephanie Dowrick The widely-loved international bestseller that offers readers - men as much as women - a rare chance to understand and balance our two great emotional needs: for intimacy and for a sense of emotional security and independence. Six years in the writing, this wise, inclusive and healing book, now updated and expanded (2002), shows that at the heart of many of our most painful problems is a need to understand and appreciate ourselves, in order to be able to reach out to other people and receive and enjoy what they can offer us. This is a book that is as useful and validating for people who are on their own as it is for those wishing to deepen and develop an intimate relationship. Self-understanding and genuine appreciation of others is made possible through a compelling combination of story-telling and and an unusual depth of psychological insight. More than 100,000 copies have been sold. "Intelligent, eloquent and wise" Metro "Offers penetrating insights into some of the most basic paradoxes of human relationships" The Guardian "A book of tremendous depth and power" Maxine McKew, The Bulletin "She leads the reader from restriction to freedom through self-reliance" The Australian "Like the great sages, Dowrick is aware that...true wisdom comes from experiencing all that life can bring, and reflecting deeply upon it'" Anne French, The Listener In Store Price: $34.95 Online Price: $33.20
	The Intimacy & Solitude Self-Therapy: the Intimacy and Solitude Self-Therapy Book by Stephanie Dowrick A companion to Stephanie Dowrick's international bestseller, Intimacy and Solitude, this is a highly practical book which can be used by readers as an uplifting and accessible way to develop their own inner resources, enhance their emotional and spiritual life, and awaken and deepen their creativity. It not only leads readers to greater clarity and insight, it also allows them to act and respond more appropriately, with greater confidence and inner stability - and with far more enjoyment of life. "Dowrick's clear prose and encouraging tone combine with concrete suggestions to back up her assertion that we can change for the better through increasingly close encounters with our individual selves" Publishers Weekly (USA) "Stephanie Dowrick is a litling genius of the inner worlds" Sark "Makes growth fun. Good value with lots of sense" Insight Network In Store Price: $19.95 Online Price: $18.95
	Daily Acts of Love by Stephanie Dowrick There is no source of happiness greater than the practice of love. In this beautifully designed little book - ideal as a gift or to carry with you - Stephanie Dowrick offers countless ways to turn the ideals of love into practical daily activities. You will benefit - and so will everyone around you. "Open at any page - and deepen your knowledge of love." In Store Price: $9.95 Online Price: $9.45

Guided Meditations
	Peaceful Mind by Stephanie Dowrick & Kim Cunio On this exceptionally beautiful album, Dr Stephanie Dowrick and Dr Kim Cunio make accessible for everyone the tremendous physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of a peaceful mind. Stephanie?s clear, uplifting guidance begins with a short talk on meditation then combines with Kim?s sublimely soothing music on two guided meditations, offering effortless daily support that can transform even the most demanding life. The album also offers exquisite music-only tracks for pleasure and refection. In Store Price: $24.95 Online Price: $23.70
	Guided Meditations by Stephanie Dowrick STEPHANIE DOWRICK offers powerful, beautiful guided meditations that are combined here with the exceptionally uplifting music of singer-songwriter TONY BACKHOUSE. The result is a rare synergy of healing and support that brings a renewal of hope and energy to complete beginners and experienced meditators alike.Two longer meditations focus on grace and courage respectively. There are also three songs from Tony and an ideal daily meditation for ongoing support - Come Home to Your Heart - from Stephanie. In Store Price: $24.95 Online Price: $23.70
	Self Love by Stephanie Dowrick On the first CD of this two-CD set, best-selling writer and social commentator Stephanie Dowrick discusses the complex, vital topic of self-love, self-acceptance and self-respect with leading broadcaster Geraldine Doogue. Looking at the historical as well as social reasons why many of us find self-love so difficult, Stephanie also shows how crucial self-acceptance is if we are to feel genuine love, concern and respect for other people. Originally broadcast as six 15-minute talks on Radio National's "Life Matters" programme. On the second CD, Stephanie leads listeners in a most rewarding and healing guided meditation on self-love, using the exquisite music of Bach's double violin concerto, played by Richard Tognetti, as background. There is also a short daily meditation practice. This meditation CD is highly recommended for people who are suffering a time of illness, uncertainty, depression or grief - as well as for those who feel the need for a more loving attitude in their lives. In Store Price: $29.95 Online Price: $28.45

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