The book of alchemy A creative practice for an inspired life
Book - 2025
"For as long as she can remember, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She has used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to ride its roughest waves. It has buoyed her through illness, through heartbreak, and the deepest oceans of uncertainty. And Suleika is not alone. For so many people, journaling is a process of discovery, sometimes vulnerable and terrifying, always transformative. The Book of Alchemy is based on the premise that journaling is an essential tool for navigating the challenges of modern life. We live in a world where we're not only forced to grapple with personal peaks and valleys but also global upheavals far beyond our control-political, social, economic, technological, environmental. More than ever, we nee...d a space for puzzling through. Designed to be a companion through challenging times, The Book of Alchemy will explore the art of journaling, offering encouragement, direction, and support to those looking for a way to navigate the in-between. It is designed to expand that space, giving readers tools to engage with discomfort, to ask questions, to peel back the layers, to uncover their truest self-and in doing so, to find clarity and calm, to hold the astonishingly beautiful and the often unbearable facts of life in the same palm"--
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- Subjects
- Published
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New York, NY :
Random House
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xxv, 305 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9780593734636
- Introduction: The Way In
- Chapter 1. On Beginning
- Here Goes Nothing
- Just Ten Images
- The Art of Dailiness
- Be Slow
- Journey and Journal
- How Are You Really?
- Radical Receptivity
- Inside Seeing
- First Lines
- I Begin Again
- Chapter 2. On Memory
- Mind Map
- I Have Been Eating Figs
- My Teacher, Mrs. R-
- Shortening the Night
- Encapsulating Ephemera
- Collecting Places
- POV: My Hat
- From My Bed
- Ghost Bread
- Past the Break
- Chapter 3. On Fear
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent
- What Else?
- The Glorious Awkwardness
- The Wisdom of No Escape
- If You Really Knew Me
- Weeding
- Whenever I Feel Afraid
- The Mayor's Underpants
- Sing Out, Louise
- Rewiring
- Chapter 4. On Seeing
- The Sunset Log
- The Clarity of Darkness
- A Bridge Through Time
- Beauty Hunting
- Poetry
- Seeing and Knowing
- Hiding in Plain Sight
- Closed-Eye Giraffe
- Dandelions
- Dutch Tulips & a Dodo Bird
- Chapter 5. On Love
- Letters from Love
- Darling, I Am Here for You
- Blessings
- Doing Her Very Best
- The Shape of Goodbye
- Listening
- I Dwell in Possibility
- The Human Mycelium
- The Gift Giver
- Letter to a Stranger
- Chapter 6. On the Body
- Embodied
- Curling Up into a Ball
- Body Love / Body Hate
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Right Foot
- Chairs
- Tender and Strong
- Breathe Out
- More Than Sustenance
- I Fall in Love
- Ode to an Outcast Part
- Chapter 7. On Rebuilding
- Day in the Life of My Dreams
- What I Learned from the Astronauts
- I Packed for Shit That Day
- Cities, Summer Forests
- Twelve Minutes
- Survival Skills
- The Risk of Blossoming
- This Is Me
- Not There, but Here
- To Live Well
- Chapter 8. OH Ego
- Drawing in the Margins
- The First Reader
- Wilderness of Childhood
- The Mouse Sestina
- The Turns We Take
- Silence
- The Badder the Better byAdrienne Raphel
- Look Down, Get Low, Think Small
- Rewiring Virtue and Vice
- Simplify
- Chapter 9. On Purpose
- The To-Feel List
- The Thing You Can't Stop Doing
- Leave Your Name at the Door byAlexa Wilding
- Forks in the Road
- Letter from a Burning Building
- A Day of Jubilee
- Reawakening Your Original Genius
- The Worlds Most Unending Promise
- Brazenface
- The Last Page
- Chapter 10. On Alchemy
- Across the Gulf of Spacetime
- The Enchanted
- Writing as Exorcism
- Something They Can't Do Alone
- A Sundering
- Greyhounds
- Breakthrough in Despair
- On Anti-Blessings
- The Sacred Center
- Gestures from the Soul
- Afterword: An Ending and a Beginning
- Contributors
Review by Kirkus Book Review