Cleaning out your cupboards isn’t just about a tidier kitchen. Find peace, repair your past, and live a more fulfilled life with this uplifting guide to the spiritual practice of decluttering. Bless your clutter. Yes, you heard right: Bless it. Bless everything in your life that is superfluous, broken, burdensome, and overwhelming—because it is all here to teach you an important lesson, perhaps the most important lesson there is: what really matters. Everyone’s lives could use some serious decluttering. But decluttering isn’t just about sorting junk into piles and tossing things in the trash. Decluttering can inform us of our burdens, help us to understand our attachments, and aid us in identifying what is truly valuable in our lives. Written by a medical doctor and a spiritual intuitive, with case studies of people just like you, Breathing Room takes you on an enlightening room-by-room tour where each room in your home corresponds to a “room” in your heart, and where declutter­ing will not just make space but improve the spirit. So, if it’s weighing you down, if it’s become an obstacle, if it’s making it near impossible for you to find the things you really love—it’s time for you to let it go and find a little breathing room.

In 1940, 13-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister and her newfound friends struggle to get well at Loon Lake Sanatorium, where they are being treated for tuberculosis.

Breathing Room brings together the #1 Best Selling Kindle Trilogy series, (Muddy Beginnings, Fragile Hope, and Awaited Sunrise) and consolidates the trilogy into one title both in print, and as an Amazon Kindle novel. Breathing Room is the raw, honest, unfiltered saga of a family fighting to survive, stay together and find joy as they struggle for daily survival. The story reveals how several people will respond differently to the same challenges, and the impact those struggles have on their lives. Breathing Room also reminds us that, even in the midst of tragedy, the funnier side of family life is still there in the form of sibling rivalries, roughhousing, practical jokes and young crushes. These are the events that make up the crazy family stories that we pass down to the next generation. Written by #1 Best Selling author Steven Lange, a third generation New Jersey resident, Breathing Room unfolds across many New Jersey towns. This novel is a no-holds-barred view of each family member's individual fight to overcome the circumstances around them, and the wrestling within their own hearts. You will become part of this 1960's family as they face great adversities that just keep coming, and as each family member searches for THEIR idea of breathing room. Breathing Room discards all pretense, and explores life turned upside down, including those conversations going on within our own heads that we are thankful that the rest of the world does not hear. Breathing Room reveals the challenges of life lived without filters, and is a based upon the very real trials in the author's own life. "Breathing Room" is that place of rest that all of us look for. Here, we are sheltered from the pains of our past and fears of an uncertain future. Breathing room allows us the freedom to discover our own likes and dislikes while unchained from the strains of daily survival. Too often the demands of financial, medical, emotional or relational struggles prevent us from having the time and peace of mind to enjoy life's basic pleasures. Breathing Room is a family's journey on the way to living instead of just surviving. Within the book's pages is the message that there IS hope for a new start, joy CAN be found in the most difficult of times, and we are all a lot tougher than we may think we are. This tribute to the American family will inspire men and women of every age.

A practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation, with pointers from some of today's most respected Buddhist teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Cyndi Lee, and Sharon Salzberg. As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives. This practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation introduces you to the practice, explains how it is approached in the main schools of Buddhism, and offers advice and inspiration from Buddhism’s most renowned and effective meditation teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Sharon Salzberg, Norman Fischer, Ajahn Chah, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Sylvia Boorstein, Noah Levine, Matthieu Ricard, Judy Lief, and many others. Topics include how to build excitement and energy to start a meditation routine and keep it going, setting up a meditation space, working with and through boredom, what to look for when seeking others to meditate with, how to know when it’s time to try doing a formal meditation retreat, how to bring the practice “off the cushion” with walking meditation and other practices, and much more.

Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status for the ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians, scientists, and engineers have pieced together the intricate biological mechanisms of breathing to devise ever more sophisticated devices to support and maintain breathing indefinitely, from iron lungs to the modern ventilator. Breathing supplementary oxygen has allowed us to conquer Everest, travel to the Moon, and dive to ever greater ocean depths. We all expect to breathe fresh and clean air, but with an increase in air pollution that expectation is no longer being met. Today, respiratory viruses like COVID-19 are causing disasters both human and economical on a global scale. This is the story of breathing—a tale relevant to everyone.

Find peace and calm amid the busyness of your life with this mindfulness meditation book by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Designed to be both inspiration and guidebook for those new to mindfulness practice, Making Space offers easy-to-follow instructions for setting up a breathing room, listening to a bell, sitting, breathing, and walking meditations, and cooking and eating a meal in mindfulness. Whether you live alone or with a family, this beautifully illustrated book can help you create a sense of retreat and sanctuary at home.