The Life of Love: An Invitation: Recent Episodes
Sharon Southwell
In The Life of Love: An Invitation, psychologist Sharon Southwell, reads her book, ‘The Life of Love: an Invitation – Fifty-two Reflections on Emotional and Spiritual Healing’. The aim of the book and these recordings is to encourage listeners to grow in life giving connection, compassion and contribution to themselves, to others, to art, nature and creative expression, and to their ultimate context, whether they understand this as God or in some other way.
For resources for each Reflection, and the archived blog ‘The Transcendent in the Everyday’, where the book began, visit the book’s website, www.lifeoflovebk.wordpress.com. You are welcome to leave comments or feedback on the book website.
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The Life of Love: An Invitation is available for sale from the publisher Lulu (www.lulu.com/spotlight/thelifeoflovebk) in paperback and as an e-book. It is also available in paperback from all major online book retailers.
Many thanks to the Lulu team and Greg Restall for the design and photograph used on the book’s cover and in the podcast artwork and to Borrtex for the theme music from ‘She’s a Gift’.
The text for these invitations was drawn from Reflection 48: Meditation and mindfulness, in the book, The Life of Love: An Invitation – Fifty-two Reflections on Emotional and Spiritual Healing, by Sharon Southwell. Many thanks to Borrtex for the theme music from ‘She’s a Gift’. Follow The Life of Love: An Invitation on Facebook and … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 48: Six brief invitations to experiment with Christian meditation
This is a visualization meditation on peacemaking. The text for this visualization was drawn from Reflection 29: Blessed are the peacemakers, The Life of Love: An Invitation – Fifty-two Reflections on Emotional and Spiritual Healing, by Sharon Southwell. Many thanks to Borrtex for the theme music from ‘She’s a Gift’. Follow The Life of Love: … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 29: A visualisation on peacemaking
This is a guided visualization for living into the idea of reconciliation imaginatively. The text for this visualization was drawn from Reflection 28: First be reconciled, in the book, The Life of Love: An Invitation – Fifty-two Reflections on Emotional and Spiritual Healing, by Sharon Southwell. Many thanks to Borrtex for the theme music from … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 28: A visualisation for reconciliation or making things right
This is a guided visualisation, living into the idea of forgiving someone. The text for this visualisation was drawn from Reflection 27: As we forgive those who trespass against us, in the book, The Life of Love: An Invitation – Fifty-two Reflections on Emotional and Spiritual Healing, by Sharon Southwell. Many thanks to Borrtex for … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 27: Forgiveness
This is an invitation to engage imaginatively with being a light in the world. Listeners from traditions with prayer or who are open to trying prayer may wish to use it in that way. The text for this visualization was drawn from Reflection 24: Do we accept ‘normal’, in the book, The Life of Love: … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 24: Being a light in the world
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 17: No one is an island
Sometimes the first step on a healing journey involves us imagining what it might be like to forgive ourselves. This guided visualisation enables listeners to live into the idea of self-forgiveness. The text for this visualisation was drawn from Reflection 14: Finding forgiveness for ourselves, in the book, The Life of Love: An Invitation – … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 14: A visualisation for self-forgiveness
This guided visualization involves hearing, supporting and holding the inner child part of you that developed and still responds from early attachment patterns. This exercise involves recalling a sense of yourself when you were small and hurt or scared. If your childhood circumstances involved abuse, severe trauma or tragedy, this exercise may feel too emotionally … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 11: Holding your inner child
What emotions were neglected or forbidden in your family of origin? If you have a pen and paper handy, you might list those that come to mind immediately. It is likely that others will suggest themselves to you over the next few days or weeks. Reflecting on your life now, what emotions feel less acceptable … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 9: Welcoming neglected or forbidden emotions
Here is a brief guided visualization for bringing fears into the light of love. The text for this visualisation was drawn from Reflection 8: Fear, love and light, in the book, The Life of Love: An Invitation – Fifty-two Reflections on Emotional and Spiritual Healing, by Sharon Southwell. Many thanks to Borrtex for the theme … Continue reading Guided visualisation – Reflection 8: Fear, love and light