Book Title: Your Royal Nature
Book Subtitle: Spiritual Essays to Find Your Way Home
Author Name: Alice McDowell, PhD

Synopsis:
This new collection of essays serves readers who want to grow spiritually and experience the oneness and liberation that is their true royal nature. Those who lead busy and complicated lives will find the short chapters offer a meditative reading experience with guidance, support, and spiritual sustenance. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, the essays will help you find your life purpose, cope with a world in crises, recognize true guidance, break negative habits, face the unknown, grow spiritually in later life, and find deep abiding love. Alice McDowell draws from spiritual wisdom traditions and personal experiences to take you beyond everyday challenges, give you a larger perspective on life, deepen your spiritual connection, and cultivate your essential nature.

Author Bio:
Alice McDowell, Ph.D., is an author, spiritual director, workshop leader, and retreat guide. She co-founded Light on the Hill Retreat Center in 1991 where she continues to guide individuals and groups on their spiritual journeys. She is author of Hidden Treasure: How to Break Free of Five Patterns that Hide Your True Self (She Writes Press, 2017) and Dance of Light: Christian, Sufi and Zen Wisdom for Today’s Spiritual Seeker. As a professor of religious studies at Ithaca College for eighteen years, she taught courses in mysticism, world religions, depth psychology, and women’s studies. McDowell has a Ph.D. in theology from Fordham University and has trained with Sufi and Buddhist teachers, Christian contemplatives, and humanistic and transpersonal psychologists.
Visit her at: www.alicemcdowellauthor.com

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