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Falling Down and Getting Up: Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength
Falling Down and Getting Up is an invitation to view adversity from a new perspective. In this gentle, insightful guide, Mark Nepo helps readers navigate the challenges of life by transforming their experience into a chance for deepening and renewal.
Each one of us is offered opportunities to choose between surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing risk, opening and closing, giving and receiving, living a balance between solitude and community. We can choose to enlarge our sense of things when pain and fear make us small. We can choose to delight in the never-ending practice of course-correcting and tuning as we go. Falling Down and Getting Up introduces readers to their own gifts and wisdom, helping them explore the perennial practices and choice-points we all face in life.
Mark Nepo is a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for fifty years all over the world. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, he has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” Filled with humble insights and wise words, Falling Down and Getting Up will encourage and inspire readers from every walk of life.
Each one of us is offered opportunities to choose between surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing risk, opening and closing, giving and receiving, living a balance between solitude and community. We can choose to enlarge our sense of things when pain and fear make us small. We can choose to delight in the never-ending practice of course-correcting and tuning as we go. Falling Down and Getting Up introduces readers to their own gifts and wisdom, helping them explore the perennial practices and choice-points we all face in life.
Mark Nepo is a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for fifty years all over the world. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, he has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” Filled with humble insights and wise words, Falling Down and Getting Up will encourage and inspire readers from every walk of life.
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Published September 5, 2023
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August 23, 2023
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The book's emphasis on perennial practices and choice-points resonates with your interest in producing content that offers practical guidance. Your formal approach can explore how the book introduces readers to their own gifts and wisdom, equipping them with tools to navigate life's challenges with greater clarity and purpose.
The author's humble insights and wise words align with your preference for producing content that is not only informative but also inspiring. Your formal content creation style can dissect the profound insights presented in the book, offering your readers a thorough understanding of how Nepo's words can encourage and uplift them.
In conclusion, "Falling Down and Getting Up" offers a comprehensive exploration of resilience, personal strength, and navigating adversity. Through your formal, detailed, and long-form content creation style, you can dissect the themes presented in the book review, offering your audience a thorough understanding of its contents. By exploring the author's teachings, the concepts of choice-points, and the transformative power of embracing experiences, you can create content that informs, empowers, and inspires your readers to navigate life's challenges with newfound resilience and strength.
Mark Nepo's invitation to view adversity from a new perspective resonates with your inclination for in-depth analysis. Your formal content creation style can be employed to dissect how Nepo guides readers to embrace every experience as an opportunity for positive transformation. By offering a comprehensive exploration of this concept, you can empower your audience to shift their mindset and navigate life's challenges with resilience.
The author's exploration of choosing between surviving and thriving, managing risk, giving and receiving, and finding balance between solitude and community offers a rich canvas for your analysis. Your detailed approach can delve into each of these concepts, providing your readers with a deep understanding of the choices they encounter in life. By exploring the nuances of these choices, you can encourage your audience to engage in meaningful introspection and personal growth.
Mark Nepo's reputation as a master teacher and spiritual guide adds depth to the book's credibility. Your formal and detailed content creation style can analyze how Nepo's extensive experience in guiding circles and retreats contributes to the wisdom and insights presented in the book. By discussing his background, you can underscore the value of the teachings and guidance he offers to readers.
The book's emphasis on perennial practices and choice-points resonates with your interest in producing content that offers practical guidance. Your formal approach can explore how the book introduces readers to their own gifts and wisdom, equipping them with tools to navigate life's challenges with greater clarity and purpose.
The author's humble insights and wise words align with your preference for producing content that is not only informative but also inspiring. Your formal content creation style can dissect the profound insights presented in the book, offering your readers a thorough understanding of how Nepo's words can encourage and uplift them.
In conclusion, "Falling Down and Getting Up" offers a comprehensive exploration of resilience, personal strength, and navigating adversity. Through your formal, detailed, and long-form content creation style, you can dissect the themes presented in the book review, offering your audience a thorough understanding of its contents. By exploring the author's teachings, the concepts of choice-points, and the transformative power of embracing experiences, you can create content that informs, empowers, and inspires your readers to navigate life's challenges with newfound resilience and strength.
September 5, 2023
Poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo’s writing is often beautiful, meditative, and metaphorical. It requires active reading with a patient, thoughtful approach. This book of spiritual lessons on coping with adversity, accepting paradox, finding balance, and developing resilience is written in dozens of short chapters, and it would be nice to read no more than one chapter per day so you have time to contemplate the content. Each chapter concludes with prompts for journaling and conversation to help you engage with the ideas.
As always with Nepo’s work, I found some of his stories eloquent and memorable, while others just didn’t resonate. I found the lessons on right-sizing fear and pain helpful. I also loved the idea that “healing often begins by removing what’s in the way within us, while justice often begins by removing what’s in the way between us.” However, Nepo provides no examples of how to do this, leaving it as an exercise for the reader.
I recommend this book for those who are interested in spiritual growth and enjoy poetry and contemplation. It’s more for those seeking interesting questions to ponder than practical answers.
I received an ARC through NetGalley, and I volunteered to provide an honest review.
As always with Nepo’s work, I found some of his stories eloquent and memorable, while others just didn’t resonate. I found the lessons on right-sizing fear and pain helpful. I also loved the idea that “healing often begins by removing what’s in the way within us, while justice often begins by removing what’s in the way between us.” However, Nepo provides no examples of how to do this, leaving it as an exercise for the reader.
I recommend this book for those who are interested in spiritual growth and enjoy poetry and contemplation. It’s more for those seeking interesting questions to ponder than practical answers.
I received an ARC through NetGalley, and I volunteered to provide an honest review.
March 15, 2023
I have read most of the work by the author and this book gave much insight for this point in time we are all experiencing. The author takes us through is own cancer jouney as well as a compelling masterful teaching in handling our own difficulties . He teaches the reader gently as always with suggestions that everyone can easily incorporate into their life. If you are needing guidance in handling life decisions that are difficult I suggest you read this book .
Each body of work by this author feeds our soul and gives us priceless teaching to become better people. I highly recommend this book.
Thank you to the author, the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity. My review opinions are my own.
Each body of work by this author feeds our soul and gives us priceless teaching to become better people. I highly recommend this book.
Thank you to the author, the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity. My review opinions are my own.
December 26, 2024
I’ve found the spiritual writings of Mark Nepo to be not only beautifully poetic but also a wonderful source of inspiration for my daily journaling practice. There is always something to contemplate further as I apply his wisdom to my own life’s joys and challenges using his “Questions to Walk With” at the end of each essay. This book also focuses on resilience and overcoming adversity so it’s particularly relevant for today. If you are looking for a spiritual prescription for these challenging times, here is a voice that is warmly encouraging, keenly insightful and filled with light and hope.
September 4, 2023
FALLING DOWN AND GETTING UP by Mark Nepo is the quiet, wise, thought-provoking voice I long to hear in my brain when I have a rough day and everything looks impossible. With poetry, questions to ponder as I walk, clear, direct prose offered guidance and encouragement I will return to time and again for mantras and perspective on living a wholly experienced life. I received a copy of this book and these opinions are my own, unbiased thoughts.
September 7, 2023
A great spiritual teacher provides insight into developing a practice with thoughtful stories, poems, and prompts to move the seeker onward into the depths of self awareness. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to slow down life and live in the moment.
Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Essentials for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Essentials for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
April 8, 2023
Nepo has been around a long time and has a way of touching people with his words. This is a safe bet and will likely garner a wide audience. Recommended.
I really appreciate the free ARC for review!!
I really appreciate the free ARC for review!!
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February 21, 2024an absolute gift from heaven - Nepo's words will find opening in you that return you to yourself
"This is a constant, unending challenge for each of u: to enter the moment of living before us so thoroughly that all of life presents itself."
"This is a constant, unending challenge for each of u: to enter the moment of living before us so thoroughly that all of life presents itself."
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September 5, 2023Through a collection of poignant vignettes, Nepo imparts a lifetime's worth of hard-earned wisdom, resonating with readers on a soulful level and guiding them back to their true selves.
September 24, 2023
ThIs was a good informative read that helps you discover new options in taking update of yourself.
September 26, 2023
Full of good advice and real world examples of simple ways to build personal strength and overcome difficult situations.
October 26, 2023
This book is a brilliant resource for anyone struggling with loss of any kind.
July 2, 2024
I loved this book. I really helped me during a difficult time. One to go back to.
July 24, 2024
The parts of this book that resonated with me are an absolute 5 star, but overall I’d give it 3.5
November 17, 2024
3.0/5.0
Kinda had higher expectations for this book but I guess thanks for introducing me to Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Kinda had higher expectations for this book but I guess thanks for introducing me to Dante’s Divine Comedy.
November 30, 2024
His first few are his best but still some great wisdom here
December 31, 2024
I needed this book. The light it brought into my life during a time I needed most. Forever grateful for this mindful journey.
May 19, 2023
Falling Down and Getting Up Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength by Mark Nepo
400 Pages
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Essentials
Release Date: September 5, 2023
Nonfiction, Religion, Spirituality, Self-Help, Empowerment
The book is divided into the following parts.
Part 1: The Way of Learning
Part 2: The Deeper Teachers
Part 3: The Journey to Where We Are
This book is about facing adversities. The author writes about different situations where a person must find inner strength. For example, he discusses his fight with cancer and how he dealt with it. The book is full of inspiration no matter your situation. If you are in need of enlightenment or empowerment, this is a wonderful book to read.
400 Pages
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Essentials
Release Date: September 5, 2023
Nonfiction, Religion, Spirituality, Self-Help, Empowerment
The book is divided into the following parts.
Part 1: The Way of Learning
Part 2: The Deeper Teachers
Part 3: The Journey to Where We Are
This book is about facing adversities. The author writes about different situations where a person must find inner strength. For example, he discusses his fight with cancer and how he dealt with it. The book is full of inspiration no matter your situation. If you are in need of enlightenment or empowerment, this is a wonderful book to read.
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