THE TEN-THOUSAND-DIAPER MAN: My first grandchild, Benjamin, was born eighteen months ago. His first night away from his mother, at the age of thirteen months, he was entrusted to my care. This was a challenge, because I had not changed a diaper in twenty-four years.
Notes from a Life (April 14, 2009)
ON HARMFUL RELATIONSHIPS: You cannot always escape from the pressures and long-lasting effects of destructive relationships. It is excruciating to see how these harmful patterns continue because you simply do not have the strength to break them. Is there a way out?
Questions from Readers (March 31, 2009)
Tommy Hellsten is a therapist with over thirty years of experience in helping people reconnect with their true selves. In his book Courage to Surrender, he explores eight powerful yet paradoxical lessons for spiritual development, personal growth, and recovery from loss, trauma, and dependency.
The great questions of life have no easy answers—that is why Courage to Surrender offers no simplistic tips or techniques. Instead, Hellsten seeks to raise the right questions that guide readers on their own journeys of discovery. Exploring the connection between what he has discovered in his work as a therapist and what the Judeo-Christian tradition has taught about humanity for thousands of years, he gives a new voice to our spiritual inheritance.
Courage to Surrender is an invitation to a deeper life, to the source of our true identity. Adventure awaits us in the depths of life, but we can take part in this adventure only if we learn to slow down, calm down, and come to a full stop. The road to a meaningful life passes through stillness and silence—and here we are met by the first paradoxical lesson: The journey begins when you stop.
In addition to the United States and Canada, Courage to Surrender has been published in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Estonia. Translation rights have recently been sold in Brazil, Portugal, China, Taiwan, Greece, Poland, and Latvia. More
Notes from a Life (April 14, 2009)
ON HARMFUL RELATIONSHIPS: You cannot always escape from the pressures and long-lasting effects of destructive relationships. It is excruciating to see how these harmful patterns continue because you simply do not have the strength to break them. Is there a way out?
Questions from Readers (March 31, 2009)
Tommy Hellsten is a therapist with over thirty years of experience in helping people reconnect with their true selves. In his book Courage to Surrender, he explores eight powerful yet paradoxical lessons for spiritual development, personal growth, and recovery from loss, trauma, and dependency.The great questions of life have no easy answers—that is why Courage to Surrender offers no simplistic tips or techniques. Instead, Hellsten seeks to raise the right questions that guide readers on their own journeys of discovery. Exploring the connection between what he has discovered in his work as a therapist and what the Judeo-Christian tradition has taught about humanity for thousands of years, he gives a new voice to our spiritual inheritance.
Courage to Surrender is an invitation to a deeper life, to the source of our true identity. Adventure awaits us in the depths of life, but we can take part in this adventure only if we learn to slow down, calm down, and come to a full stop. The road to a meaningful life passes through stillness and silence—and here we are met by the first paradoxical lesson: The journey begins when you stop.
In addition to the United States and Canada, Courage to Surrender has been published in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Estonia. Translation rights have recently been sold in Brazil, Portugal, China, Taiwan, Greece, Poland, and Latvia. More