Living After Loss: A Soulful Guide to Freedom
by Melanie Phillips
About the Book
Would you like to navigate loss, grief or any challenging life situation from a more empowered perspective?
Melanie courageously shares her story of loss, including the unexpected suicide of her partner, her decade long autoimmune condition, a messy divorce from her first husband, and the surrender of innocence as she gave up her power to so-called enlightened spiritual leaders.
Living After Loss guides you through the grief process from the dark nights, to the slow awakening of acceptance; culminating in wisdom and the opportunity to reinvent yourself and live a life of joy, vitality, and peace.
Created for spiritual seekers yearning to free themselves of the suffering that can accompany any sort of loss including; a child leaving home, a parent dying, the loss of a job, your pet dying, a forced move, a diagnosis, or the loss of a dream.
Within the pages of this book, you will discover:
- How to transform your thought patterns and the perspectives that perpetuate suffering.
- How to free yourself from feeling like a victim of your life circumstances and instead become empowered within it.
- Practical mindfulness based exercises and tools for moving through loss and supporting the health of your body, naturally.
- An enlightening, no nonsense spiritual approach to loss and grief.
Living After Loss is a beacon of light, a guidebook to assist you in moving beyond surviving to reclaim your life so that you can thrive.
About the Author
Melanie Phillips (BFA, E-RYT, CAS) is a certified Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist with advanced training under the direction of Dr. Vasant Lad, one of the leading pioneers of Ayurvedic Medicine in North America. Having immersed herself in ashram living and study at the Bihar School of Yoga of India, and having taught since 2000, Melanie’s embodiment of Ayurveda, yoga, and a multitude of energy modalities has earned her excellence in leadership, teaching, and mentorship for those seeking a way home to their intuitive and brilliant nature.
Having walked a real and vivid healing path through chronic illness and extraordinary loss, Melanie embraces the philosophy that we can all reemerge from darkness and remember that we are all “the light” in our own lives.
Melanie’s empathic and sharply intuitive approach helps clients discover the root cause of their dis-eases and empowers them with wisdom and practices to live vital, light-filled, joy-filled lives.
Melanie works out of her practice in Vancouver, British Columbia. She shares her workshops, retreats, and Ayurveda Yoga Teacher Trainings internationally, and also offers remote Ayurvedic Spiritual Coaching and online trainings.
To stay connected or for more information about Melanie’s potent, transformational workshops and retreats, online trainings, plus one on one work, visit madhurimethod.com
Amazon Central Author Page – https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B07B4H9KJJ
Goodreads Author Page – https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/78370672-melanie-phillips
Interview with Melanie Phillips
Please share a bit about your journey to become a published author?
In 2014, I co-authored a book called “Your Irresistible Life: 4 Seasons of Self-care through Ayurveda & Yoga Practices that Work” with Glynnis Osher. Writing this current book has been a journey that spanned over the last few years. I had already finished my book and been through the editing process when a friend suggested I reach out to Julie Salisbury.
Julie read my manuscript and recommended that the entire book be restructured. This task felt daunting as I had already spent months editing the book and was ready to publish. I ended up following Julie’s guidance and feel happy with the direction the book took. It can be difficult within the writing/ editing process to have any semblance of objectivity, so Julie’s feedback was important for shifting the flow of the book
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How does the writing process work for you? Do you schedule a time every day, work madly when inspiration hits or ?
For “Living After Loss,” I originally planned a 2 month trip to Bali to have some space and time to write. On that trip I got extremely ill with salmonella and ended up in the hospital. My plans to write my book were thwarted and after that I shelved the project. Almost a year later I began waking early in the morning, compelled to write. This inspiration is what carried the book to fruition.
What did you find most difficult about the writing and publishing process? What was the easiest?
The easiest part was the initial writing and the most challenging aspect was going back to do rewrites.
What title (or titles) have you released? Please include a short synopsis of what your book is (or books are) about
I co-authored “Your Irresistible Life: 4 Seasons of Self-care through Ayurveda & Yoga Practices that Work” with Glynnis Osher. It’s a seasonal guidebook for natural healing and preventative medicine. This practical and easy to digest book on Ayurvedic medicine leads you through the best food choices, yoga postures, breathing practices, beauty routines, and rituals according to the season. We also include our personal journal entries over an entire year and our experiences and relationship to trying to follow and Ayurvedic and Yogic lifestyle.
“Living After Loss: A Soulful Guide to Freedom” (launching May 24th) is an enlightening, no nonsense spiritual approach to loss and grief. It was created as a guide and workbook to assist readers in moving beyond surviving, to reclaim their life so that they can thrive. It’s a book about transcending the energy of victimhood to step into a more empowered relationship to loss and life challenges. Living After Loss is a beacon of light for those who are suffering and offers tools, techniques, and mindfulness based practices for moving through loss and supporting the health of your body-mind, naturally.
To get one of the earliest copies of Living After Loss at the lowest price and help it reach best seller status, PLUS receive several free bonus gifts, please join my May 24th on-line launch party at http://madhurimethod.com/living-after-loss-book/ and purchase your copy that day through the special link provided.
Do you have any new books in the planning or writing stage?
I’ve got some ideas floating around, but nothing concrete at the moment.
What would you like readers to know about you?
Throughout my life I have stumbled and fallen before finding the strength to rise back up again. Having walked through chronic illness and extraordinary loss, I embraced Ayurveda, yoga and energy medicine as my primary means of emerging from darkness. As a 18 year full time yoga teacher and member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, I created The Madhuri Method, a method that effectively treats symptoms and diseases of the mind, body, and emotions leading to a truer relationship to joy, acceptance and personal empowerment.
I work one-on-one with clients online, offer Ayurvedic Yoga training for teachers, retreats and workshops as well as an online Inner Empowerment Mentorship program. All of my offerings are rooted in guiding my clients back to remembering their wholeness, love, and worth. In the last few years I’ve taken up rock climbing and use it as a way to assist in reprogramming my limiting beliefs that are keeping me in an outdated version of myself.
I believe that laughter is the best medicine.
What do you hope readers will take away from your book?
My intention with Living After Loss is to inspire readers to reclaim their life here and now-to reprogram their neuropathways and open their hearts to the miracle of life.
Do you have a favourite quote?
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction. —Cynthia Occelli