Description
Soul was everywhere in the 60s and 70s. Soul music, soul food, soul sister. I first knew soul in church, where it meant being damned, more or less. Soul music is more about getting on down than rising up to heaven... Soul is moving to the beat - of our hearts as well as to the rhythm of the music. Growing up with soul meant the inner landscape was out there in song. It made you feel known... alive... as if only soul music could see you, knew who you really were, recognised your deepest longings and... told you that you were OK.
Fifty years on I begin writing these Soul Moves essays during the five months in which we lived neither here nor there. We are in a camper van, the phone tuned to soul, new and old. It keeps our spirits up and our feet dancing. We are not homeless but between homes. It is an interruptive time. It is an uncertain time wherein doubts and fears could grow. And that most precious thing, a time without belonging, in which new discoveries could be made.
These essays follow the moving lines of change. From house moves to migration, from ageing and retiring to grieving and re-constellating relationships, changes which can be hard to navigate. What I discovered anew, in moving to Bexhill, is that when we make of change a soul move, resilience, hope, beauty, community and celebration come too.
About the Author
Sheila Ryan is an essayist, activist and life changes coach. She lives in Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex with her companion, Douglas and their two, old, terriers, Juno and Gloria.
Sheila wrote the groundbreaking book Vital Practice in support of helping and health practitioners, ''Volta Voices' to tell the stories of head-trading women and Causeway short stories inspired by living on causeway islands.
She has been a homeopathic practitioner, teacher and supervising consultant for forty years. Sheila is a Fellow of the Society of Homeopaths.
Book Information
ISBN 9781913743970
Author Sheila Ryan
Format Paperback
Page Count 98
Imprint Triarchy Press
Publisher Triarchy Press
Weight(grams) 165g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm
Fifty years on I begin writing these Soul Moves essays during the five months in which we lived neither here nor there. We are in a camper van, the phone tuned to soul, new and old. It keeps our spirits up and our feet dancing. We are not homeless but between homes. It is an interruptive time. It is an uncertain time wherein doubts and fears could grow. And that most precious thing, a time without belonging, in which new discoveries could be made.
These essays follow the moving lines of change. From house moves to migration, from ageing and retiring to grieving and re-constellating relationships, changes which can be hard to navigate. What I discovered anew, in moving to Bexhill, is that when we make of change a soul move, resilience, hope, beauty, community and celebration come too.
About the Author
Sheila Ryan is an essayist, activist and life changes coach. She lives in Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex with her companion, Douglas and their two, old, terriers, Juno and Gloria.
Sheila wrote the groundbreaking book Vital Practice in support of helping and health practitioners, ''Volta Voices' to tell the stories of head-trading women and Causeway short stories inspired by living on causeway islands.
She has been a homeopathic practitioner, teacher and supervising consultant for forty years. Sheila is a Fellow of the Society of Homeopaths.
Book Information
ISBN 9781913743970
Author Sheila Ryan
Format Paperback
Page Count 98
Imprint Triarchy Press
Publisher Triarchy Press
Weight(grams) 165g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm
