Kingma speaks to thirsty-for-sustenance readers with her trademark depth and compassion, offering 10 deceptively simple yet profoundly effective strategies for addressing despair on practical, emotional, and spiritual levels.Add layoffs, foreclosures, and skyrocketing health-care costs to the inevitable crises of every life, and you have todays landscape. Amid these challenges, even those who thought they had solid coping skills feel that their center cannot hold as things fall apart. In her first book in many years, bestselling author Daphne Rose Kingma takes us on a path of emotional and spiritual healing, with particular attention to the complex and frequently overwhelming circumstances of our lives right now. The perfect combination of empathic friend, sage counselor, savvy problem solver, and even gallows humorist, Kingma looks straight into the predicaments so many of us face. She then offers ten deceptively simple yet profoundly effective strategies for coping on practical, emotional, and spiritual levels.