{"product_id":"the-practice-of-being-alive","title":"The Practice of Being Alive","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"gE iv gt\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; padding: 20px 0px 0px; cursor: auto; color: #222222; font-family: \" google sans roboto robotodraft helvetica arial sans-serif background-color:=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eYou can keep your whole life running and still go missing from it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\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 style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\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 style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Practice of Being Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is about that distance, and how we come back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\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 style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\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 style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\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 style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\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 style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eWith a foreword by Prof. Dr. Jessica Böhme.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote style=\"background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 4px solid #d2d2d7; color: #6e6e73; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 1em !important;\"\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;\"\u003e'Honest, searching, and deeply human — a book for anyone who has ever held everything together while wondering where they went.' \u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e— Kate Eckman\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Full Spirit Workout\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Grokkist Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67827175489840,"sku":"9781067281748","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781067281748.jpg?v=1790052413","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-practice-of-being-alive","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}