{"product_id":"shifting-sands-a-guidebook-for-crossing-the-deserts-of-change","title":"Shifting Sands: A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change","description":"How to stop thinking about life’s inevitable transitions as goals to reach and learn how to navigate through times of unpredictability and uncertainty.\n\nWe live in a culture, Steve Donahue writes, which loves “climbing mountains.” We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top. Sometimes this approach works, but not always, particularly when we are enduring a personal crisis—divorce, job loss, addiction, illness, or death. We may not know exactly where we are going, how to get there, or even how we’ll know we’ve arrived.\n\nAnd it’s not just in times of crisis. There are many deserts in our lives, situations with no clear paths or boundaries. Finding a job is usually a mountain, but changing careers can be a desert. Having a baby is a mountain, especially for the mom. But raising a child is a desert. Battling cancer is a mountain. Living with a chronic illness is a desert.\n\nIn the desert, we need to follow different rules than we follow when conquering a mountain. We need to be more intuitive, more patient, more spontaneous. Donahue outlines six “rules of desert travel” that will help us discover our direction by wandering, find our own personal oases, and cross our self-imposed borders.\n\nShifting Sands shows us how to slow down, reflect, and embrace the changes of life graciously, naturally, and courageously.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1576752801\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1576752801.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Donahue, Steve\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51832831770911,"sku":"PKV.1576752801.G","price":2.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1576752801-0.jpg?v=1772298821","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/shifting-sands-a-guidebook-for-crossing-the-deserts-of-change","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}