An Intentional Life - by Lisa Kentgen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An Intentional Life lays out a transformational path traveled by practicing intention in five foundational areas: awareness, reflecting, choosing, acting, and allowing. By developing practices in each of these core areas, you can direct them to become your most authentic version of you.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>We hunger for greater purpose and the chance to create positive change in the world. Yet finding that purpose can be difficult in a culture which sometimes discourages meaningful engagement. Fortunately, the transformative practice of intention can help us discover a radically different, deeply rewarding way of life that fosters meaning and purpose. This book is an invaluable guide to intentionality, and offers simple, essential tools for uncovering the most authentic version of you. Comfortably straddling Western psychology and Eastern contemplative traditions, Dr. Lisa Kentgen has helped hundreds of people remove obstacles and make deep and lasting changes. Here, she lays out a groundbreaking method for accessing insight and prompting positive transformation in everyday life. </p><p> </p><p><em>An Intentional Life </em>approaches the question of how to live most authentically in ways both pragmatic and deep. Filled with memorable accounts from Kentgen's work with clients, as well as with helpful exercises and reflections, it articulates a transformational path traveled by practicing intention in five foundational areas: awareness, reflecting, choosing, acting, and allowing. By developing specific practices in each of these core areas, you can direct them to become powerful tools for living.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Praise for</p><p>"Lisa Kentgen has written a profoundly practical book. Those who follow the guidance she offers in An Intentional Life are highly likely to experience untold benefits."<br /> --Sharon Salzberg, author of Loving kindness and Real Happiness</p><p>"An Intentional Life exemplifies Lisa Kentgen's gift for seamlessly linking theoretical concepts with pragmatic application of change-making practices. She has a way of encouraging fruitful self-examination that is critical for personal transformation. This is a special book, offering pragmatic insight, wisdom, and guidance for the reader's personal journey toward authenticity."<br /> --Lena Verdeli, Ph.D. Director, Global Mental Health Lab, Teachers College, Columbia University</p><p>"Filled with powerful stories and insights, An Intentional Life offers an invaluable framework for creating a life of authenticity and purpose. Dr. Kentgen is an expert guide, blending wisdom, warmth, and practical knowhow to inspire us to skillfully turn inward and shape a life that intimately aligns with our values. With the world becoming ever more complex - and confusing - we need this book more than ever."</p><p>--Rachel Klein, Ph.D., Fascitelli Family Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry</p><p>"Lisa Kentgen conveys ideas that are powerful in a knowing, yet soothing and calm voice--free of jargon. Importantly, she provides the reader with ways to make the ideas experience-near, which is essential for real change. Her work comfortably and substantively straddles the mindfulness and Western psychology traditions; written in a conversational tone while thorough and precise in its understanding. This gem of a book will be an invaluable resource for clients to complement the work of psychotherapy. It will be a wonderful accompaniment to readers who have their own mindfulness or meditation practices. It also stands on its own for readers who have never been in therapy or who are unfamiliar with mindfulness practices. I am a fan of this book!"<br /> --Diana Fosha, Ph.D., Director and Founder, The AEDP Institute</p><p>"In this engaging and smart book, Lisa Kentgen takes an approach to a fundamental question--how can we live authentically? --that is both commonsensical and wise. Dr. Kentgen offers clear-eyed, big-hearted guidance for directing and expanding our ability to observe ourselves and our world closely and fruitfully. The rewards of this undertaking--novelty and adventure, balance, and clarity--are within our reach, and Kentgen knows how to help us get there. This is a truly useful book."</p><p>--Martha Cooley, author of The Archivist and Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss</p><p>"Lisa Kentgen's writing and philosophy are as clear-eyed, compassionate, and proactive as the woman herself. This book is a culmination of Dr. Kentgen's distinguished career as a clinician, teacher, and practitioner of mindfulness, providing a roadmap to self-empowerment and authenticity through intentional practices. As a teacher and facilitator, she embodies the qualities put forth in her work. Dr. Kentgen is a force to be reckoned with and this is a book that can change your life."<br /> --Mark Matousek, author of When You're Falling, Dive and Writing to Awaken</p><p> </p><br>
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