As seen in O, The Oprah Magazine

Woman's Day
Abby is quoted extensively in an article called The Slow Lane: 13 ways to stop rushing, recharge and take back your life by Chrystle Fiedler.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Article about Abby and Finding the Deep River Within in the GlobeWest section: Boston Globe

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."

LADIES HOME JOURNAL ONLINE
Finding the Deep River Within is recommended in the "Books We Love: On Being a Woman" section LHJ.com

WellesleyWeston Magazine

An excellent review of Finding the Deep River Within by Winky Merrill in the Fall issue.
for the full review.

JOURNEY ONLINE Queensland Uniting Church, Australia.
Book review by Melanie Perkins, a Minister of the Word candidate studying at Trinity Theological College. Journey Online

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.