A Spacious Life Blog Tour (+$25 Amazon GC Giveaway!)

Title: A Spacious Life 

Author: Narissa Doumani 

Series: N/A

Pages: 204

Date Published: 2015

Publisher: Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd

Format: Kindle

Genre: Self-Help

Source: Goddess Fish Blog Tours

Synopsis:
Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart…

What does a spiritual seeker look like? Could you pick one in a lineup? If you said yes, chances are you weren’t imagining this meditating model. Born in Sydney, Australia, Narissa Doumani grew up well loved, well educated, and (reasonably) well dressed, but for years grappled with what she admits is ‘the ultimate first world problem’: how to be truly, deeply happy in any lasting way. In this intimate memoir, she explores the creative process, traverses the heights of romantic love and the despair of self-doubt, and comes face to face with her own fragile mortality. But it’s in a cave in a Thai forest, where she meets the Buddhist yogi who will become her spiritual guide, that she learns to unravel the messy states of mind and heart that had kept her from living a spacious life—and thereby begins to uncover the happiness, meaning, and connection for which she always yearned.

~Try an Excerpt!~

When the nurse left, I lifted the neck of my hospital gown and peeked down the length of my body. I saw a pair of full breasts, and the gentle curve of my hips as they arced away from my torso’s centre line and back in again to meet the tops of two strong and supple thighs. I saw a belly that rose and fell with my breath. Plum in the middle, it dipped into a perfectly neat buttonhole of a navel, a tiny well where my life line had once been. It paid homage to my mother, to her mother before her, to all mothers throughout time and space, without whom I could not have taken a single breath nor walked a day upon this earth, and served as a reminder of an eternal law—that our life lines are interconnected, and so we may grow only through the care and nourishment of others.

My body was a picture of youth, of health, and yet it was a lie. Beneath the soft exterior hid a dark stowaway, a ruthless killer waiting for the opportune moment to seize power of my life’s vessel and break it down cell by cell. I may have been born and raised through the nourishment of others, but in the face of the worst possible outcome, a showdown with the Grim Reaper, I was utterly, terrifyingly alone. Fear rumbled from my belly right down to the caverns of my bowels.

~Meet Narissa~ 

Narissa Doumani is the student of a reclusive Thai yogi, and a dedicated practitioner of mindfulness, meditation, and the Buddhist path. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne, Narissa spent nearly a decade working as a model and presenter in the world of commercial advertising, using the circumstances of her everyday life to cultivate clarity and peace of mind. Born into a Thai-Lebanese-Australia family, she is a strong advocate for diversity, tolerance, and finding one's own authentic path. Her debut memoir, A Spacious Life, invites us all to do just that, and to live with meaning beyond the material.

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