Mindful Woman

In The Mindful Woman, bestselling author and psychotherapist Sue Patton Thoele shows the woman who does too much how practicing mindfulness, cultivating calm, and restoring balance can increase feelings of well-being, hopefulness, and happiness--and happier, calmer women can be more successful and productive. Women are overwhelmingly responsible for child- and eldercare, housework, maintaining primary relationships and larger-family responsibilities, and keeping their families healthy and running smoothly. And most women today are employed outside the home, despite the fact that their considerable household and caretaker responsibilities have not gone away--or even been reduced. Statistics show that employed mothers in 2003 spent an average of twelve hours more a week on child care than stay-at-home mothers did in 1975, and that women work an average of 43.5 paid and unpaid hours now at all jobs, compared with 39 hours in 1977. In addition, a growing number of women in the so-called "sandwich generation," between the ages of 45 and 59, find themselves caring for both their aging parents and their young children or adolescents.In this compact and engaging book, Sue Patton Thoele, a bestselling author of 10 inspirational and self-help books for women, presents accessible and easy tips for the woman who is neglecting herself in order to care for her loved ones. Using techniques based on mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and positive psychology principles, The Mindful Woman provides the busy, overworked woman with simple, enjoyable ways to restore balance, calm and harmony in her life, giving her renewed vitality and joy in all aspects of her life.

Sue Patton Thoele is a psychotherapist, former hospice chaplain, and bereavement group leader