Shifting Sands: A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change

How to stop thinking about life's inevitable transitions as goals to reach and learn how to navigate through times of unpredictability and uncertainty.

We live in a culture, Steve Donahue writes, which loves "climbing mountains." We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top. Sometimes this approach works, but not always, particularly when we are enduring a personal crisis—divorce, job loss, addiction, illness, or death. We may not know exactly where we are going, h...