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BODY + SOUL "Antidote for the Too-Busy Lifestyle: What and how to make time for what matters In her 'Touching the Deep River' workshops, psychotherapist Abby Seixas explains how the 'chronic busyness' of our fast-paced lives is cutting us off from essential aspects of ourselves -- including our senses of self, purpose, and place. Now, in Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman's Guide to Recovering Balance and Meaning in Everyday Life (John Wiley & Sons), Seixas packages her seminars into book form, demonstrating why – and how -- to slow down and touch the still, quiet space within. This practical guide is full of tools and encouragement to help overworked, overcommitted women regain balance and spiritual contentment and would be a great project to tackle with a reading group or buddy. When things are out of whack deep down inside, Seixas believes, the effects, like ripples in water, spiral outwards, touching our relationships, jobs, communities, and the world at large. A comforting and stimulating how-to, Finding the Deep River Within has powerful inner and outer implications." |
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WellesleyWeston Magazine An excellent review of Finding the Deep River Within by Winky Merrill in the Fall issue. |
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BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
"If you can wait at a red light without applying makeup or practicing Italian verbs with a CD, this book is not for you. For the rest of us, Seixas has a message: Slow down! A psychotherapist in private practice for more than twenty-five years, the author runs workshops during which she trains participants to turn away from their :to-do" lists and heed the quiet voice inside. Instead of "time out," she urges them to take "time in," sink beneath the surface, and learn to listen, feel, and observe. Journaling and written exercises are part of the process as women take steps toward setting boundaries, silencing their inner critics, and living in the moment."
IMPROPER BOSTONIAN
"Go Down Deep"
"It's the comforting belief of...therapist Abby Seixas that a place of flowing peace actually exists within us, underneath the clanging highway of life. She calls it the "deep river within." Citing sages of the inner life such as May Sarton, who said, "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self," and Henry David Thoreau, sho wrote, "Only that day dawns to which we are awake," Seixas invites women to "take time-in," to rightfully luxuriate and marinate in fruitful aloneness. She helps ward off the objections-- I'm too busy, I'm not worthy--that we use to roadblock this kind of soul-searching vacation. She encourages women to look at and experience their darker feelings with lightly detached, compassionate mindfulness, in aid of shifting, softening and accepting them--to "befriend" those feelings. Seixas leads groups of people who are in transition, or experiencing sadness, to the deep river within "to reconnect with [their] sense of purpose and to tap a source of vitality and power." And for people who are lost in the shuffle of the necessary, she advises them to find, rediscover and do "something you love.""
'KID TIPS' COLUMN by Tom McMahon
Syndicated columnist, Tom McMahon, mentions Finding the Deep River Within in his column called "Kid Tips". See www.kidtips.com or Contra Costa Times.
JOURNEY ONLINE Queensland Uniting Church, Australia.
Book review by Melanie Perkins, a Minister of the Word candidate studying at Trinity Theological College. Journey Online
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Deep River Within: A Woman’s Guide to Recovering Balance and Meaning in Everyday Life
Abby Seixas. Jossey-Bass, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 0-7879-8097-8
"Between family, professional work, housework, working out, e-mails, and the simple essentials like bathing, eating, and even sleeping, there is always too much to do. Readers who identify with the above and lament their lack of time will find themselves engrossed within the first few pages of this spiritual self-help title, as Seixas describes with candor and personal experience the unhappy life situation so many women face today. A psychotherapist by profession and founder of Deep River seminars, Seixas outlines the steps for slowing down in today’s world by drawing from case studies in her work, outlining the basic spiritual principles of her seminars, and providing a range of helpful, easy exercises for readers to practice. Getting to the spiritual within is not easy in a culture that favors multi-tasking, endless activity and striving for perfection, but Seixas advocates what she calls “dropping down” as key to this process, which involves “moving from a more outward focus at the surface of our lives, to a more inward focus deep within ourselves.” Seixas’s accessible prose and the slow, lasting journey she advocates are welcome in light of the many self-help books that teach us to snatch moments of rest while still keeping on the go, go, go."
The Today Show – NBC TV |
THE BOSTON GLOBE - December 31, 2006 |
New Morning Show on the Hallmark Channel TV |
The Beacon Villager, Concord, MA |
Fox 25 Morning News TV |
Inspiration House |
Retirement Living TV |
Live Interview WTMH Connecticut |
Abby Seixas Book Talk on Video |
Video of Keynote Address |
Family Education.com |
Live Interview NECN TV - New England |
MomsEasyChair |
Beliefnet.com |
First Ouselves |
Connecting Women |
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Abby. The 48 minute audio interview can be heard by clicking the play button at the right. |
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STANFORD REPORT |
Live Interview NECN TV - New England |
THE GOOD LIFE SHOW with Jesse Dylan – January 2, 2007 |
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SUNDAY WITH LIZ WALKER |
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DAILY NEWS TRIBUNE, Metrowest Daily News, and Town Crier |
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EONS - Lovin' life on the flip side of 50. . . |
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Mama's Musings on Diary of a Mother blog |
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Fitness Magazine
Abby was quoted in the September, 2008 issue of Fitness magazine. CLICK HERE to see the full article.