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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
By Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown — 2014
Coming Back to Life has helped people transform denial, despair and grief in the face of the social and ecological challenges of our time. See more...
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Coming Back to Life has helped people transform denial, despair and grief in the face of the social and ecological challenges of our time. This new, completely updated edition repositions the classic work within the context of deepening global crises and the cognitive, spiritual and perceptual revolutions occurring all around us.
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