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From Sh!tshow to Afterglow: Putting Life Back Together When It All Falls Apart
288Overview
Sometimes your foundation crumbles. Sometimes you realize there wasn't a foundation to begin with. Maybe your relationship ended in a breakup or divorce, or you lost your job, or a loved one died. Whatever crisis showed up to screw with you, it brought everything else crashing down, and suddenly life became confusing, disorienting, out of control. A total shit show. You. Need. Help.
Therein lies the problem: Traditional self-help guides just aren't for you. You're an individualist, an iconoclast, a follow-your-own-drumbeat kind of person. The typical sunshine-and-rainbows, "live your best life!" books in the "personal growth" aisle aren't going to speak to your worldview you need an embrace-your-weirdness vision for growth and rebuilding.
Enter Ariel Meadow Stallings, who has experienced a few life catastrophes of her own and emerged from them with newfound clarity and strength. In From Sh!tshow to Afterglow, she offers a lifeline of support and outside-the-box thinking for times of crisis and confusion, sharing plenty of tactical tips for getting your shit together. Along the way, she never lets readers forget that sometimes a life has to be taken apart before it can be put back together better than ever.
Without sugar-coating how deeply it sucks to have your world shattered, From Sh!tshow to Afterglow gives readers a reassuring plan to for putting the pieces back together and emerging stronger than ever.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580059633 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Publication date: | 07/21/2020 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Sales rank: | 1,207,567 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Welcome to Your Shitshow 1
Part 1 Mind: Why You Can't Outthink a Shitshow
Chapter 1 Shock 10
Chapter 2 Ugly Crying 21
Chapter 3 Sleep 27
Chapter 4 Talk Therapy 35
Chapter 5 Mindfulness 42
Chapter 6 Shame 51
Chapter 7 Gratitude 60
Chapter 8 Panic Attacks 70
Part 2 Body: Getting Back to Being Human
Chapter 9 Attachment Theory 80
Chapter 10 Makeover 90
Chapter 11 Burlesque 99
Chapter 12 Self-Care 108
Chapter 13 Connecting 114
Chapter 14 Exercise 123
Chapter 15 Daily Devotional Dance 132
Chapter 16 Surrender 140
Part 3 Spirit: We're All One, But in a Secular Way
Chapter 17 Sound Healing 152
Chapter 18 Reiki 158
Chapter 19 Nesting 163
Chapter 20 Visualizing 169
Chapter 21 Violence 175
Chapter 22 Tattoos 184
Chapter 23 Listening 193
Chapter 24 Spiritual Awakening 202
Part 4 Onward: Integrating the Afterglow
Chapter 25 Existentialism 212
Chapter 26 Self-Reliance 219
Chapter 27 Community 225
Chapter 28 Epigenetics 233
Chapter 29 Service 243
Chapter 30 Closure 253
Epilogue Dismantled and Wide Awake 259







