The Comfort Queen's Guide to Life: Create All That You Need with Just What You've Got

by Jennifer Louden

This deeply engaging book will help you discover the unique shape of your life by asking yourself questions. Then, with the help of the Comfort Queen, you will discover how to reorient your life around your own desires and needs rather than around time-management tricks. A Comfort Queen rules her own life. She treats herself with the same kindness and respect as she does the people she loves. She has a healthy sense of humor about herself. Rest, self-nurturing, and harmony are her imperial rights. She keeps her eye on the unfolding path of her life and lives by what she treasures. Or at least she tries.

A Comfort Queen also knows that "balance" is not a realistic goal for realistic women. Having the perfect home, the perfect relationship, and enough quality time with your children and friends is a magazine article, not a life. Jennifer Louden and her Comfort Queen know that real life isn't about balance; it's about meaning!

Jennifer Louden, the best-selling author of   The Woman's Comfort Book and The Woman's Retreat Book -- pioneering books on self-nurturing for women -- shows you realistic and fun ways to go inside yourself and create the rich, fulfilling, and sometimes slightly askew life that fits you.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published May 16, 2000

Reviews

[Maura Alia Badji]

I wish I still had this book. It was a good reminder that it is not only OK, but essential for a woman to provide herself with comfort and care.

[BookMouse]

I tried to give this book a go, but it was more confusing that helpful. If you want a book that outlines how the author worked through her issues, this is for you. I'm bummed, because it looked like it would be a fun, helpful read.

[Elizabeth]

Love it! lots of wisdom, encouragement and practical suggestions...NOT ANOTHER SELF IMPROVEMENT BOOK - Hallelujah!!!!!!!!

[Robin]

I recently did a five-day online creativity re-boot with Jennifer Louden and it sent me back to skim her books that I read when they were first published. This book, from 2000, is a nudge to listen to your heart mindfully, name your fiercest desires, and be inspired to keep moving forward. Twenty years ago it was more meaningful to me but Louden's multiple questions can still be helpful in determining one's unique path.

[LM Charlton]

Not a good read, but luckily also not the worst book I have read.

[Janet]

This book was nice.

[Mary]

Sprawling reflection on creating moments of joy and comfort in the middle of the hurly burly of life. Written as a dialog with an embodiment of Comfort Queen that was a little too cutesy for me.

[Laura Cheek]

Fun read when you are in the self-help mode.

[Lisa]

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