Katrina Kenison - Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment

Warm and wise a collection of soul-searching reflections.

Kirkus Reviews

This luminous memoir is a gift to any reader searching for meaning, clarity, and perhaps a bit of hard-won joy. Katrina Kenison is the best kind of guide through our lifes passages: a thoughtful, fearless friend who reaches out a hand and says, Ive been here, too.

Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion

In this moving memoir, Kenison beckons readers into her world and proves to be an insightful guide and companion through the vicissitudes of life.

Chicago Tribune (Editors Choice)

An extended meditation on a certain passage in lifeone composed of loss and gain, deprivation and sustenance. Kenison learns the way to relinquish old pleasures and to seek out new pathways. This is a guide that we all can usewarm, intelligent and compassionate.

Roxana Robinson, author of Cost

MAGICAL JOURNEY is even more open-hearted than her previous soul-baring memoirs With clarity, honesty, and spirit, Kenison allows readers into the intimate work of self-discovery and renewal.

Concord Monitor (NH)

No matter where you are on the journey, Kenisons own pilgrimage points the way home. She gives us permission to stop trying to improve ourselves and invites us to relax into the wonder of who we already are.

Regina Brett, author of Be the Miracle

If there is a book that might change your life for the better, MAGICAL JOURNEY might be the one [It] is a sweet, comforting balm for the soul.

New Hampshire Magazine

The afternoon of life can cast long shadows, but Katrinas beautiful observations on love, loss, growth, and gratitude will brighten readers worlds considerably. You wont find a better guide or friend to accompany you through the sorrows, joys, and mysteries we are all meant to share.

Priscilla Warner, author of Learning to Breathe

Kenison likens the existential midlife quest to the heros journey described by Joseph Campbell, including the death of the old self and the painful, satisfying birth of the new. With ferocious compassion, she puts words to sensations and sudden hungers that most of us dare not name.

Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution

Kenison, soul bared and hand extended, is right beside us as we, too, face lifes next inexorable threshold: the elusive pursuit of self-acceptance.

Margaret Roach, author of The Backyard Parables

Kenisons quietly courageous search for purpose in the second half of life inspires the rest of us to examine our own ordinary lives with wonder and compassion. Deeply personal and gently instructive, this poignant memoir of loss and growth affirms that we are all intimately connected, our humble human stories more alike than different.

Stephen Cope, director of Kripalus Institute for Extraordinary Living and author of The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

Reading Katrina Kenisons beautifully written story helped me appreciate my own life with a new tenderness. Her book helps us realize that although our lives dont turn out perfectly, they are precious and worthy of our love.

Hari Kirin Khalsa, author of Art & Yoga: Kundalini Awakening in Everyday Life

Katrina Kenison models powerfully effective practices for cultivating presence in our everyday lives so that we can experience more compassion for ourselves and others, thereby creating more moments of love and joy.

Libby Barnett, MSW, Reiki master teacher, and author of Reiki Energy Medicine, Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice

In her modern re-imagining of the mythic journey, Katrina Kenison sets out to explore the interior landscape of midlife, and from the very first page her readers are eager to come along for the ride. Kenison is at once disarmingly human and courageously wise.