Library Notes

Kate Rhea

Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

This New York Times bestseller provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul. Readers are presented with a revolutionary approach to thinking about daily life—everyday activities, events, problems and creative opportunities—and a therapeutic lifestyle is proposed that focuses on looking more deeply into emotional problems and learning how to sense sacredness in even ordinary things.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life by Richard Carlson

In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life. With gentle, supportive suggestions, Dr. Carlson reveals ways to make your actions more peaceful and caring with the added benefit of making your life more calm and stress-free.

In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life by Robert Kegan

If contemporary culture was a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental capacities, and showing what happens when we find ourselves, as we so often do, in over our heads. In this dazzling intellectual tour, he completely reintroduces us to the psychological landscape of our private and public lives.

Healing for Damaged Emotions [book & workbook] by David A. Seamands

Whether through our own fallen temperament, willful disobedience, or as victims of the hurtful actions of others, many of us struggle with crippling emotions, among them perfectionism, depression, and low self-worth. The pain of such emotions is often present with us even though the incidents and relationships that caused the hurt may be long past. Through the realistic, scriptural approach that Dr. David Seamands brings to this deeply personal subject, you too can find healing--and then become an agent of healing for other strugglers.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Slattery Library & Resource Center is not currently open to the public. However, you may e-mail Kate Rhea at krhea@dioshpt.org to request a title and it can be checked out to you. The pick-up location will be in the reception area of the Catholic Center near the Book Drop. We appreciate your patience as we strive to keep everyone safe and healthy during this time.