The Inn By The Healing Path Book 2: Reasons to Live

By David Spero RN

Seven true stories of healing through committing to our reasons to live: the things that excite us, motivate us, get us out of bed in the morning. Some reasons in the book are helping others, planting trees, creating beauty, connecting with animals, cooking, even doing manicures. The characters include people with physical and mental illness, loneliness, and/or a desire to make a difference. Two stories focus on learning to see and accept blessings and love that languish unnoticed in dark closets of our lives. Each story is followed by questions for self-help if wanted. Readers will gain a better understanding of what they're doing on planet Earth from reading this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Spero RN
• Release date: Jan 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310919480

David Spero RN

The great French author Sidonie Gabrielle Colette said, “I’ve had a wonderful life. I only wish I had realized it sooner.” I have quoted her for years. Only recently I realized that her saying applies to me, too.I’ve been on the healing path for 35 years, and believe me, it's been a long trip! I've grown a lot, in ways I could not have predicted or even imagined. I created The Inn by the Healing Path to record the journey and help other people get here too.Stories are my favorite tools for healing. A long career as nurse, health coach, social activist, parent, journalist and person with multiple sclerosis (MS) has brought me powerful stories from all kinds of people. I report on them and others I have found. I have written books on self-care and others on the social causes and cures of chronic illness. I blog regularly about diabetes, MS, and spiritual growth.I will keep telling these stories as long as I am able. I hope you visit The Inn by the Healing Path often and tell others about it. I look forward to traveling this path with you.

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The Inn by the Healing Path

Stories on the Road to Wellness

Book #2 – Reasons to Live

By David Spero RN

Art by Andrea Staffeld

Copyright 2016 David Spero RN

Published by David Spero RN at Smashwords

ISBN 9781310919480

Copyright 2016 David Spero RN

Smashwords Edition License Notes

Thank you for downloading this ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends, but if they get one for themselves, it will help my numbers. Please visit my author page to find other books you might like. Read Book 1 at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/584237

Look for future books in the Healing Path series beginning in May, 2016.

Table of Contents

Welcome

Introduction to Book #2

Story 1 One Tree at a Time

On Your Path

Story 2 One Positive Thing

On Your Path

Story 3 Unwanted Blessings

On Your Path

Story 4 Something You Want to Do

On Your Path

Story 5 Cat Healing

On Your Path

Story 6 Getting Involved

On Your Path

Story 7 You Are Loved

On Your Path

Thanks and Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Series and Other Books

Welcome

Welcome to the Inn by the Healing Path. People stay here sometimes on their way to wholeness. Come in if you need a rest or if you want to meet some inspiring people. They’ll be happy to tell you their stories.

The stories are all true. I am featured in a few and have bit parts in others, but mostly they’re about people I have known, worked with, and learned from as a health coach, a journalist, a social activist, a parent and a seeker.

Why take this path?

Many people are searching for wellness, happiness and peace in their lives. I am living that search, and you may be living it too. And while love and peace are actually all around us, it can take a journey to find them and take them in.

At their core, all our journeys are similar. We become wounded in various ways. The world seems dangerous, even overwhelming, and we don’t know where we fit in. Or we think we do know, but we don’t like it much. Life is full of beauty, but we experience too much pain and fear. We have moments of pleasure, surrounded by stretches of anxiety and sadness. There must be something better, but we don’t know what it is.

Sometimes people volunteer for their journey, looking for something they know not what. Other people are forced onto the path. Home disappears or becomes unlivable. Illness or trauma rips away security and sets us on a voyage we never wanted.

These paths can be long, difficult and twisted, but they have surprising rewards. Healing isn’t about returning to some imagined previous untroubled state. It’s about moving forward to something different and in many ways better. The healing path frees you from the false limits society has put on you, your false sense of who you are. Then you can come home to the peace and joy that are always within you. You can be a force for good in the world.

World permitting, the Inn will be a reliable support for your journey in coming years. Books will be released every 3 - 4 months. Each book includes four – seven stories. Many of them first appeared on The Inn by the Healing Path blog, and when readers’ comments deepened the story, I have included them here under the heading Going Deeper. For those who may want to meditate on or learn more from the stories, I have included some questions under the heading On Your Path after each story. If you want, you can print them out and use them as a workbook.

Of course feel free to choose what to read, what questions to answer, and what to ignore. The Inn is your place to heal. Enjoy it.

David Spero

San Francisco 2016