Ashley Davis Bush

An essential guide to acceptance and it's power to precipitate change and bring about emotional freedom. Imagine the relief of not being stuck in anger, resentment or regret. Imagine the emotional freedom of stopping the battle with yourself, other people, your circumstances and even your past. Imagine the peace of mind you would have if you stopped fighting the current of life and instead flowed with it, effortlessly. Exploring the journey from resistance to alignment to possibility, Ashley Davis Bush debunks the idea that acceptance is merely passive apathy or resignation. She introduces you to the simple but radical practice of self-compassion as the key to disarming resistance, expanding positive emotions and allowing you to move easily with "what is". She invites you to see how acceptance paradoxically leads to powerful, lasting change. Using personal and clinical stories, practical suggestions, and evidence-based research, Ashley illuminates a new way of being with life. Choose acceptance today and discover first hand how it leads to your emotional freedom.

Your Guide to Inner Peace

The Art and Power of Acceptance

This stunning, color-illustrated guide includes practices to help you let go of everyday stresses and find inner peace. With practical tools, strategies and exercises harnessing the benefits of mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, creativity, relaxation and compassion, this book will guide you towards your own inner peace and help you to find harmony with those around you: family, friends, your community and the world. CONTENTS Introduction 1. Grounded and Rooted 2. Equanimity 3. Acceptance 4. Gratitude 5. Compassion 6. Something More 7. Towards World Peace References Acknowledgements

Simple practices for less angst, more calm

Little Book of Inner Peace

From the office of a seasoned grief counselor, this book is an essential guide to grief. It shines a light into the darkness and illuminates the lifelong journey of integrating loss into life. It is a spiritual companion to higher healing that offers a shift, a redirection from pain and suffering to the sacred qualities of compassion, love, connection, gratitude, and transformation. This book takes Ashley Davis Bush’s seminal Transcending Loss grief model and elevates it to a new level by providing a light-filled lens with which to process and metabolize loss. Bush describes a dimension of higher healing which provides an essential balm to the shattered heart. She will lead you to a broad experience of support, to a source of light within and beyond the self that is essential to a healthy grieving process. A guide on your journey from shock to transcendence, this book shows you how Love, Connection, Compassion, Faith, and Transcendenceorient and soothe a broken spirit. At the end of each chapter, you will be introduced to five specific “Light-Shift Practices” that integrate the chapter’s concepts and facilitate the healing process. Grieving is a universal yet disorienting and devastating experience. But like the ancient Japanese art form of kintsugi which repairs broken pottery with golden lacquer, grief is healed by filling the cracks in your life with light, creating beauty from brokenness. Embracing a higher perspective makes the journey more bearable, the experience more meaningful, and the future more expansive.

Light After Loss

Imagine not being stuck in anger, resentment, grief, or regret. Exploring the journey from resistance to alignment to possibility, Ashley Davis Bush debunks the idea that acceptance is merely passive resignation. She introduces the simple but radical practice of self-compassion as the key to disarming resistance, expanding positive emotions, and making a powerful, lasting change. Using personal and clinical stories, practical suggestions, and evidence-based research, Ashley illuminates a new, emotionally free way of life.

The Art & Power of Acceptance

Ashley Davis Prend

Describes how the SOAR solution--spirituality, outreach, attitude, and reinvestment--allows for personal growth during the lifelong grieving process

Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and how to Make it Meaningful

Transcending Loss

“Bite-sized” self-care strategies that any therapist can easily practice. For mental health professionals who must regularly guard against compassion fatigue and secondary traumatization, intentional self-care isn’t just essential; it’s a survival tool. If therapists don’t take proper care of themselves, they can’t do their work effectively. Taking up an exercise program, going on a vacation, turning to supportive social networks, while helpful remedies to the stresses of the job, are not always feasible and the results are often only short term. Synthesizing the latest thinking in mindfulness, neuroscience, energy medicine, and spiritual disciplines, Simple Self-Care for Therapists offers immediate relief in doable, bite-sized nuggets—easy exercises that can be seamlessly integrated into your current workday routine with little fuss. Over 60 restorative practices are presented—tools for (1) grounding, (2) energizing, and (3) relaxing—organized as antidotes to the most common pathologies that therapists suffer: vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout. Bush, a therapist with over 25 years of experience, walks readers through the descriptions and simple implementation of each practice, with illuminating stories from her own professional experiences. Whether you’re in a staff meeting, conducting a therapy session, writing a progress report, or attending a workshop, these convenient exercises can be dipped into as needed. A go-to resource of self-care tools, every therapist, no matter their background or approach, now has the ability to prevent stress, avoid internalization, revive their spirit, and restore a sense of well-being.

Simple Self-Care for Therapists: Restorative Practices to Weave Through Your Workday

Discusses how to attain emotional maturity while retaining the wonder and freedom of youth, providing advice on how to become a more loving, responsible, and spiritual person.

4 Essential Steps to Authentic Adulthood

Claim Your Inner Grown-Up

This inspirational pocket guide by the author of Transcending Loss offers healing reflections for anyone experiencing the pain of losing a loved one. It's easy to feel unmoored when we lose someone close. We need to find a new rhythm to our days and new ways to connect to the ones we've lost. But how does one move on after the death of a loved one? Therapist and self help author Ashley Davis Bush offers a path forward with these daily meditations: small doses of comfort and hope to help you get through your day when you are still heavy with grief. Each bite-sized reading offers reassurance that healing is possible, whether it's an ordinary day of living with loss or a special anniversary day. Poetic words, combined with photographic images throughout the book, help provide solace along with the perspective that love always transcends even the deepest loss. Here you’ll learn how to find: · Comfort through grief · Hope from pain · Life after loss

Daily Meditations for Those Who Are Grieving

Hope & Healing for Transcending Loss

From the office of seasoned grief counselor Ashley Davis Bush, Light After Loss is an essential guide to grief. Based off Bush's seminal “Transcending Loss” grief model, this book provides an inclusive spiritual light to illuminate the darkness and set you on a healthy course of navigating the lifelong journey of integrating loss into life. Grieving is a universal yet disorienting and devastating experience. But like the ancient Japanese artform of kintsugi which repairs broken pottery with golden lacquer, grief is healed by filling the cracks in your life with light, creating beauty from brokenness. Embracing a higher perspective makes the journey more bearable, the experience more meaningful, and the future more expansive. Includes: — Advice on how a spiritual perspective can accelerate your personal healing, offering specific ways to soothe a broken spirit. — Five specific “Light-Shift Practices” that integrate concepts and facilitate the healing process at the end of each chapter. — Tips on the shift process: a redirection from pain and suffering to the sacred qualities of compassion, love, connection, gratitude and transformation.

A Spiritual Guide for Comfort, Hope, and Healing

Wie können wir in einer Welt voller täglicher Herausforderungen Momente der Ruhe und des inneren Friedens finden? Wie können wir wieder ganz bei uns selbst ankommen und den Stürmen des Alltags mit Gelassenheit begegnen? Genau hierfür präsentiert Ashley Davis Bush die besten und wirksamsten Rituale und Übungen aus verschiedenen spirituellen Traditionen: bewährte und hilfreiche Methoden, die in Minutenschnelle, fast im Handumdrehen, ihre wohltuende Kraft entfalten. Ob in der Arbeit, zu Hause oder unterwegs – diese kleinen Seelenoasen lassen sich ganz leicht auch in den stressigsten Alltag einbauen und sorgen nachhaltig für innere Balance, Zufriedenheit und frische Energie.

Mit einfachen Ritualen Verbundenheit, Freude und Liebe erfahren

Das kleine Buch vom inneren Frieden

Das Wunder der Gelassenheit erleben Wenn der Alltag stresst und der Kopf nicht zur Ruhe kommen will, kann dieses bezaubernde Buch Wunder wirken. Ashley Davis Bush präsentiert einfache Übungen, die in Minutenschnelle helfen, spürbar gelassener durchs Leben zu gehen. Egal, ob Sie mit dem Auto im Stau stecken, eine wichtige Prüfung vor sich haben oder eine lange To-do-Liste abarbeiten müssen – für jede Situation gibt es die passende Technik, um Körper und Geist zu entspannen und den Puls wieder zu beruhigen. Gönnen Sie sich täglich ein paar Minuten Auszeit, und Sie werden sich gestärkt, fit und einfach glücklicher fühlen.

Ganz entspannt die Stürme des Alltags meistern

Das kleine Buch der Ruhe und Gelassenheit

Daniel Arthur Bush

Powerful techniques for strengthening your marriage! The stresses and strains of life can unravel the tight bond you once had with your spouse, leaving you feeling lonely, frustrated, and unfulfilled. 75 Habits for a Happy Marriage shows you how to restore that intimate and joyful union with simple, positive actions that bring you closer together throughout the day. Designed by authors Ashley and Daniel Bush, each activity takes only a matter of minutes and gives you a moment to set aside the demands of your career, finances, and chores in order to focus on what matters most--your love. When practiced consistently, these powerful behaviors will become lifelong customs and an important part of your daily routine, ensuring that your relationship continues to grow in the right direction in the years to come. From embracing each other for at least twenty seconds after work to touching your partner during dinner, these valuable habits will instantly boost warm, passionate feelings and help you maintain that loving connection even when managing a crowded schedule. With the guidance and practices detailed in 75 Habits for a Happy Marriage, you will enrich the bond you share with your partner and build a happy, supportive, and long-lasting marriage.

Marriage Advice to Recharge and Reconnect Every Day

75 Habits for a Happy Marriage

“Compassionate, poignant, and practical. . . . Transcending Loss will be a great blessing on your lifetime journey of recovery.”—Harold Bloomfield, MD, psychiatrist and author of How to Survive the Loss of Love and How to Heal Depression Death doesn’t end a relationship, it simply forges a new type of relationship—one based not on physical presence but on memory, spirit, and love. There are many wonderful books available that address acute grief and how to cope with it. But they often focus on crisis management and imply that there is an "end" to mourning, and fail to acknowledge grief’s ongoing impact and how it changes through the years. “This is a book about death and grief, yes, but more important, it is a book about love and hope. I have learned from my experience and interviews with courageous people about pain, struggle, resiliency, and meaning. Their stories show over time, you can learn to transcend even in spite of the pain.”—from the introduction by Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW

We live in a world of chronic stress and dis-ease, a world of rampant anxiety and depression. If we stay locked onto the horizontal plane of superficial concerns and challenges, we are doomed to feeling deeply unsettled. However, if we intentionally shift our awareness to the vertical plane of life -- diving into spiritual depths and rising to transcendent perspectives -- we connect with a Spirit that is both beyond and within us. Chapters Include: Ch. 1 Awaken Ch. 2 Connect Ch. 3 Wonder Ch. 4 Love Ch. 5 Trust Ch. 6 Home Each chapter offers five specific 'sacred pause practices' to instill a habit of first inviting stillness and then weaving a fabric of spiritual experiences. Being intentional in this way, on a daily basis, ultimately makes navigating one's life a radiant adventure rather than an exhausting race through a dark world. The Little Book of Spiritual Bliss offers a compendium of simple spiritual practices to help foster connection with the Divine, to cultivate sacred wellbeing, and to increase awareness of being a wave within an ocean of Spirit. Living with this sort of faith underpinning isn't merely a 'belief', it's an experience.

The Little Book of Spiritual Bliss

Finding serenity every day...in the everyday things we do. It can be a challenge to reach a calm and relaxed mindset, especially in our modern world. But in Shortcuts to Inner Peace, Ashley Davis Bush helps readers learn how to hit the pause button amidst the chaos with a spirit of mindfulness-linking fast, easy, and restorative respites to ordinary everyday activities. Once people begin to integrate these shortcuts into their daily lives, they begin to happen automatically. And when that happens, inner peace will no longer be a brief state of mind, but a way of life.

70 Simple Paths to Everyday Serenity

Shortcuts to Inner Peace

This stunning, colour-illustrated guide includes practices to help you let go of everyday stresses and find inner peace. With practical tools, strategies and exercises harnessing the benefits of mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, creativity, relaxation and compassion, this book will guide you towards your own inner peace and help you to find harmony with those around you: family, friends, your community and the world. CONTENTS Introduction 1. Grounded and Rooted 2. Relaxation 3. Equinamity 4. Acceptance 5. Gratitude 6. Compassion 7. Beyond Yourself Toward World Peace

The Little Book of Inner Peace

Offers activities readers can do in minutes a day to restore and strengthen a marriage.

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