{"product_id":"the-practice-of-being-alive-paperback","title":"The Practice of Being Alive - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou can keep your whole life running and still go missing from it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work gets done. The messages get answered. The days go by. And somewhere in there you stepped back from your own life and kept going from a few inches outside it - present enough to function, but no longer quite \u003cem\u003ein\u003c\/em\u003e it. Nothing breaks. Nothing looks wrong. And almost nothing in modern living asks you to step back in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Practice of Being Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is about that distance, and how we come back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Palmer - a former megachurch pastor and the founder of the Center for Non-Religious Spirituality - names a kind of health we don't have a word for: not of the body, which we call physical, or of the mind, which we call mental, but of your relationship to your own existence. He calls it \u003cstrong\u003eexistential health\u003c\/strong\u003e, and he follows it through the four places a life can thin: your footing within yourself, your presence with the people closest to you, your belonging in community, and your place before the sheer size of things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not another program for fixing yourself. It refuses the promise that enough insight, discipline, or self-work will finally make life resolve. What it offers instead is plainer and sturdier - a way of staying in contact with the life you are actually living, without waiting for it to resolve. Not once, but again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks nothing about what you believe, and meets you exactly where you are. For anyone who is functioning fine and still feels absent, this is a book about coming back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith a foreword by Prof. Dr. Jessica Böhme.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Honest, searching, and deeply human - a book for anyone who has ever held everything together while wondering where they went.\" \u003cstrong\u003e- Kate Eckman\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Full Spirit Workout\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67869723623582,"sku":"9781067281748","price":30.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7748\/8030\/files\/mzr3XvMZro9781067281748.webp?v=1793314614","url":"https:\/\/theword.com\/products\/the-practice-of-being-alive-paperback","provider":"TheWord.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}