Coming to Your Senses: Soaring with Your Soul
By Sally M. Veillette
Hara Publishing Group, 2003
ISBN: 0974185418

Sally M. Veillette rediscovered her passion and reclaimed her life. In Coming to Your Senses: Soaring with Your Soul, she wants to help her readers do the same.

This is a book for exhausted over-achievers—folks who’ve realized that doing it all just isn’t working for them any more. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) was the stimulus that started Sally on her life-changing journey. This book isn’t just for CFS sufferers, however. Sally’s hope is that the framework and activities she provides will facilitate “soaring” for all of us–leaving behind all that keeps us stuck and effortlessly living our lives to the fullest.

Sally identifies an eight step process for reconnecting with ourselves, beginning by reawakening our senses, then decluttering our chaotic, busy lives. Next, begins the “push-pull” of unravelling our potential, learning “to stay our light, bright, shining selves more hours of every day.” (p. 93). The final four steps involve pursuing our passions—less “doing” and more “being.” Sally reminds us that “we’re after one thing and one thing only: a life that’s completely, authentically, and wholeheartedly alive” (p. 124).

In an era where work-life balance is increasingly eluding us, this book is a welcome resource for overworked career practitioners and many of our clients.

Dr. Roberta Neault is a career development specialist and counsellor-educator. Her current projects include developing the online Career Management Professional Program and researching the challenges of attaining work-life balance. You can reach her at info@lifestrategies.ca.