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A Weekend to Change Your Life
Author: Joan Anderson
In her popular A Year by the Sea, Anderson wrote about
a time she chose to live apart from her husband on Cape Cod in order to
better understand herself. Anderson has turned her private retreat into a
program, Weekend by the Sea Retreats, to help women learn how to have a full
life apart from the needs and demands of spouses, children, aging parents
and careers. Here, Anderson shares the exercises and activities she has
developed to encourage change and growth. She draws on Erik Erikson's eight
stages of life from infancy to old age and suggests listing the gains and
losses from each phase in order to identify one's personal strengths.
Another technique is the beach walk, which allows women to get in touch with
their bodies and emotions as they trek alone on the shore, collecting
shells, rocks and driftwood, swimming, or drawing pictures in the sand.
Anderson's warm, inviting tone will appeal to women who feel, as she did,
that they need time and space to reinvent themselves.
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