Falling Down and Getting Up

Falling Down and Getting Up
Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength
By Mark Nepo

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Publication: September 2023
Genre: Nonfiction, Self-Help, Psychology
Page Count: 400 pages
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*** from the New York Times Bestseller Author ***
*** Acclaimed as "A consummate storyteller" ***

Falling Down and Getting Up is an invitation to view adversity from a new perspective. In this gentle, insightful guide, Mark Nepo helps readers navigate the challenges of life by transforming their experience into a chance for deepening and renewal.

Each one of us is offered opportunities to choose between surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing risk, opening and closing, giving and receiving, living a balance between solitude and community. We can choose to enlarge our sense of things when pain and fear make us small. We can choose to delight in the never-ending practice of course-correcting and tuning as we go. Falling Down and Getting Up introduces readers to their own gifts and wisdom, helping them explore the perennial practices and choice-points we all face in life.
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Review:

"Mark has travelled into the depths of what it means to be human and brought back this book for all of us. When you fall, and you will because we all do, this book will be an outstretched hand helping you to stand again, and take the next step." --Beth Kempton, bestselling author of Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life

"A wonderful book, full of wisdom and insight." --Parabola

"This book offers a transformative journey that helps us to connect with and explore the eternal part of ourselvesour spiritual nature, our essence. Falling down is part of the human journey, but Mark shows us how it can become a path of spiritual transformation." --Baptist de Pape, author of the book The Power of the Heart

"Like a jazz virtuoso, Mark weaves his poetry and teachings to move gently, yet persistently, into your blood and bones as he helps us move from the fear of pain and suffering to the rebirth of ever getting back up as we learn and grow together. I hope you will find a way to read this book slowly, deeply, and let it nourish you with its gentle, wise and heart-felt guidance." --Michael Brant DeMaria, Ph.D., four-time Grammy nominated Recording Artist and author of When All Is Lost

"Nepo gives wind to our sails as we navigate the waters of falling down and getting up. I recommend this book with unreserved enthusiasm." --Justine Willis Toms, co-founder and host of New Dimensions Radio and author of Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World

"Through the comforting beauty of Falling Down, I felt understood, awakened, and expanded, not from fantasy but from experiencing, through his words, the deeper majesty in my everyday life. The majesty that is in all of our lives. This will be yet another of his masterpieces I will return to, again and again, to luxuriate in his exquisite expression. Youll want to clutch this one close to your heart, to make it a part of you. What a gift!" --Kris Ferraro, International Energy Coach, speaker, and Author of Your Difference is Your Strength, Manifesting, and the #1 Amazon bestseller Energy Healing

"Amid this luminous new collection of wisdom, Mark Nepo offers one of the most robust and tender teachings on grief I have come across. In Marks hands, pain becomes poetry, and enlarges our hearts enough to carry what we may have thought we couldnt." --Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy