The Way to Stillness: Powerful Tools for Those in the Helping Professions

by Anne Alexander Vincent, Gayle Alexander

Gayle Alexander looks back over a fifty-year career as a master counselor, gifted teacher, and minister. Gayle and her daughter, Anne, share her unique approach to connecting with others at a deep level, offering a practical guide that anyone might use as a manual on their spiritual journey. This approach has come to be known the world over as the Love Motif. Full of rich insight, and profound, inspiring life lessons gleaned from fifty years of private practice and being a companion on the way to thousands of individuals, Alexander offers powerful tools to a new generation of helpers. It is her hope that educators, clergy members, physicians, clinicians, therapists, counselors, and anyone involved in the mentoring process find their own Way to Stillness and pass it on.

Genres: Nonfiction

214 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2010

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

From my blog...[return][return]Beautifully uplifting The Way To Stillness by Anne Alexander Vincent and Gayle Alexander offers the reader a positive message of love, fulfillment and how to be present in the moment. The Way To Stillness is written in a manner that can be read in one sitting or savoured, bit by bit. Filled with relaxing photography, poignant memories of therapies that worked, as well as inspirational quotes, The Way to Stillness offers the reader a gentle, yet affective lesson in how to love themselves, to be thoroughly present in every moment and to be still. The authors take from over 50 years of clinical experience to compile this book to aid others to learn to be still, no small feat and a skill that is not mastered in a day. While the novel is primarily geared toward helping those who work in helping professions, I believe this small tome of inspiration can be tailored to fit anyone who is looking to find balance in their life. I would recommend The Way To Stillness to anyone in a caring profession as well as anyone looking to improve their life and to learn to be present, engaged and still.

[DelGal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since I've worked in the field of substance abuse counseling for several years, I thought this would be a great read for a mental energy boost or spiritual strengthening, especially in those trying times with difficult clients. The author has great insights through her own personal counseling experiences that can assist those in the helping profession, but there's nothing too Earth shattering and new that a seasoned professional hasn't already attempted or experienced. It is however, written well, and specifically Christian readers will appreciate several bible verses and helpful references within the book. Finally, there are some wonderful and inspiring pictures included, but they're placed on every other page, and in this reviewers opinion, is a little bit of an overkill, when fewer placed pictures could have made more of an impact. Overall I recommend this book for those who are newer in the helping professionals, or those who are seasoned but could use a bit of a refresher.

[Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance · Rating 3 out of 5]

My heart dropped when this book arrived. It had been a bad day. Rare for me, really, to be feeling this low. And I was quite worried that this book would turn out to be one of those books written by a stuck-in-the-sixties wannabe, with chants or mantras or other hocus-pocus feel-good fixes.

Nope. Sigh of relief. This is a book from a grounded person and the advice is old and wise. It immediately restored my spirits and changed my focus and brought me back into a happy place.