Soul Shift

The Weary Human's Guide to Getting Unstuck and Reclaiming Your Path to Joy

By: Rachel Macy Stafford

Narrated by: Rachel Macy Stafford

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Reclaim Joy, Inner freedom, and Zest for Life.

How often do you feel joy—a truly pure, unadulterated experience of ease, bliss, and happiness? In childhood, our joy arises in the moment, spontaneous and free. But as we become adults, we’re faced with the pressure of increased responsibilities, endless demands, and a barrage of breaking news. And along the way, we forget how to be present in our own lives.

In Soul Shift, Rachel Macy Stafford offers us a practical, inclusive guide to navigating a culture of distraction and depletion to find our way back to what delights our heart, makes us feel alive, and brings us peace. She illuminates how to embody the practice of presence, where we return home to our authentic selves and the joy found only in the here and now.

Like a wise, empathetic friend, Stafford accompanies you on a wondrous exploration of self-discovery. She walks you through a symbolic botanical garden made up of eight areas designed to help you practice: presence, worthiness, letting go of perfection, self-kindness, authenticity, forgiveness, looking after yourself, and cultivating your gifts.

Soul Shift helps you rediscover the joy inside you at a pace that is natural, with an approach that is gentle and practical exercises that are easy to follow. Here, you will learn how to:

• Release external measurements of success so you can focus on what matters

• Respond to life’s challenges with awareness and compassion

• Realign with your heart and the calm presence within

• Create a framework to center you when life steers you off course

• Experience the healing power of presence for yourself and with the ones you love

In practicing this work, “our innermost truths come to the surface,” Stafford shares. “Barriers crumble, the past loses its grip, and we are finally free to show up as our fully human selves and make our unique contributions to the world.”

©2023 Rachel Macy Stafford (P)2023 Sounds True

Critic reviews

“As we face more and more demands for our time and attention, it’s easy to be distracted from what we value most in our lives. In many ways, we’ve become disconnected from what gives us joy. With Soul Shift, Rachel Macy Stafford has created a hope-filled path to help us rediscover what it means to truly thrive.”—Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global

“Reading this miraculous Soul Shift book by Rachel Macy Stafford will plant a loving new voice in your head and cause your heart to mightily expand through the guided processes in the pages. These guided processes will literally lift and reshape your soul.”—SARK, succulent wild woman

“Rachel Stafford is, above all else, a spiritual guide and a compassionate healer. Her books are the kind that take people by the hand, and Soul Shift is no different. Indeed, it is a guide for all of us, and if we take Rachel’s hand and let her lead the way, we will find transformation on the other side as we enter into her stories and experiences, carefully curated for us to find healing in ourselves and in the world. This book is a safe place to pause, assess, and enter into care for ourselves and one another, making room for the soul shift we so desperately need.”—Kaitlin Curtice, award-winning author of Native and Living Resistance

Exactly what my heart needed

This book, especially the audiobook version is like sitting with a good friend over coffee. Rachel not only hold space for our big thoughts and feelings, she gives us actionable steps forward.

Always right in time

Rachel Macy Stafford shares her words and never fails to help others feel seen and heard in a world determined to make us feel alone.