Your Living Compass: Living Well in Thought, Word, and Deed

by Scott Stoner

Overview

A religious meditation on borders-physical and spiritual-an elemental and humanist phenomenon for everyone.

If Barbara Brown Taylor and Steven Covey ever wrote a book together, this might be the book! Living Compass is a church-based faith and wellness program designed for individuals and small groups. Readers engage in a 10-week, self-guided wellness retreat, consisting of daily ten-minute readings, plus small, meaningful action steps designed for getting "your life, your relationships, and your work headed in a new direction," according to the author.

Deeply spiritual and exceedingly practical, this book joins the national Living Compass network, which includes a website, workshop series, wellness resources (including a free Living Well with Living Compass app), social media, and soon, a new multi-million-dollar wellness center to be located in the offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.

Structured holistic wellness program for individuals and groups based on a highly successful retreat model developed by priest-psychologist. Builds on the national network of Living Compass workshops, presentations, and publications, and soon, a multi-million faith and wellness center in Chicago. Each chapter includes questions for reflection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819229403
Publisher:	Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/01/2014
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Scott Stoner is the founder of the Living Compass faith and wellness ministry and also serves as the director of the Nicholas Center of the Diocese of Chicago. As an Episcopal priest, pastoral counselor, licensed marriage and family therapist, spiritual director, and retreat leader for over thirty years, he has facilitated more than 45,000 hours of individual and family wellness conversations, plus led hundreds of retreats. He lives in Shorewood, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jeffrey D. Lee vii

Introduction: Welcome to this Retreat 1

1 Preparing for your Retreat 9

Living Well With All Your Soul

2 Spirituality 17

Reflection 1 Assessing Your Spiritual Wellness

Reflection 2 What Makes Your Face Shine?

Reflection 3 Spirituality: the Root System That Grounds Our Wellness

Reflection 4 Receive, Release: A Simple Spiritual Practice

Reflection 5 Pay Attention to What You Pay Attention To

3 Rest and Play 31

Reflection 1 Assessing Rest and Play in Your Life

Reflection 2 Rest for Our Souls

Reflection 3 We Don't Stop Playing Because We Grow Old, We Grow Old Because We Stop Playing

Reflection 4 Sharpening Our Saws

Reflection 5 Laughing Well

Living Well With All Your Mind

4 Vocation 47

Reflection 1 Assessing Your Vocational Wellness

Reflection 2 Just Bring Yourself

Reflection 3 The Scripts and Stories of Our Lives

Reflection 4 The Many Kinds of Voice Lessons and Teachers

Reflection 5 Go With the Flow

5 Organization 63

Reflection 1 Assessing How You Organize Your Time, Money, and Possessions

Reflection 2 Organizing Your Time

Reflection 3 Your Relationship With Money

Reflection 4 How You Relate to Your Possessions

Reflection 5 Organizing Your Priorities

Living Well With All Your Strength

6 Care for the Body 80

Reflection 1 Assessing Your Physical Wellness

Reflection 2 Body Language

Reflection 3 Let's Move It

Reflection 4 Soul Food

Reflection 5 Aging Well

7 Strees Resiliency 97

Reflection 1 Assessing Your Stress Resiliency

Reflection 2 Response-Ability

Reflection 3 Living From the "Inside, Out"

Reflection 4 Fight or Flight, Tend and Befriend

Reflection 5 Loosen Your Grip and Keep On Pedaling

Living Well With All Your Heart

8 Relationship 115

Reflection 1 Assessing Your Relationship Wellness

Reflection 2 Standing in Love

Reflection 3 Love Banishes Fear

Reflection 4 How Our Neighbors Can Teach Us About Love

Reflection 5 Who Do You Appreciate

9 Handling Emotions 132

Reflection 1 Assessing Your Emotional Wellness

Reflection 2 If You're Happy and You Know It

Reflection 3 When We Can't Untangle Ourselves

Reflection 4 Emotional Resiliency

Reflection 5 The Collect for Purity

10 Reflecting on Your Retreat 150

Appendix A The Living compass Self-Assessment Tool 155

Appendix B A Guide for Use in Congregations 165

Acknowledgments 167

Editorial Reviews

"This is not only just what we need for this moment in the life of the church, this is what our entire culture needs to hear about bringing balance, health, and wholeness to our lives. I turyly believe Scott Stoner could be the next Dr. Phil. Read this book. It will change your life."
-Courtney Coward, Associate Dean and Director, The Beecken Center, The School of Theology, University of the South

"The Rev. Scott Stoner leans on 'a living compass' as a metaphor for gauging the liveliness of our faith and pointing us toward an abundant and meaningful life. His accessible stories, insightful wisdom, and practical steps to wellness provide clear direction for enthusiastic well-being and steadfast faith."
-William Craddock Managing Director and Senior Vice-President of CPG Education and Wellness Group

"To be both well and faithful in trying times like these-to live and act with singleness of heart-demands both resilience and grace. Both these qualities can be found in full measure in Scott Stoner's Your Living Compass. Spiritually grounded and psychologically informed, Stoner provides a down-to-earth and deeply compassionate guide to spiritual and emotional wholeness for anyone who seeks to reconnect heart to mind and soul to strength."
-Roger Ferlo President, Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation

"Here's a GPS for the hopelessly stressed. In this uber-practical how-to manual, seasoned trail guide Scott Stoner shows us how to step back, reflect, and regain our bearings. Many lives have been changed by Your Living Compass-you may be next."
-Chris Yaw Founder, ChurchNext.tv

"Your Living Compass de Scott Stoner es una valiosa guía para conectar las áreas más importantes de nuestra vida. Cuando nos damos cuenta en que punto de nuestra jornada vital nos encontramos, tenemos la oportunidad de replantear nuestra ruta a seguir, y las orientaciones que ofrece Scott Stoner en su libro son de gran ayuda para alcanzar la meta de una vida saludable en todos sus aspectos. / Your Living Compass from Scott Stoner is a valuable guide to connect the most important areas of our life. When we know in what point we are in our journey, we have the opportunity to rethink our route, and the guidelines provided by Scott Stoner in his book are of great help to achieve the goal of a healthy life in all its aspects."-Rev. Alvaro Araica, Associate for Hispanic Ministry, Episcopal Diocese of Chicago

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