Patricia A Livingston

Will Developed Intelligence: Handwork & Practical Arts in a Waldorf School

Handwork cultivates many admirable and positive results in developing human beings – even in those already developed! Brain research demonstrates repeatedly that handwork stimulates brain development, a multiplicity of neurons and lights up almost the entire brain. Psychologists indicate that handwo...

Just Food for Thought

Just Food for Thought is a story about Patty's life during ages 18 to 25. She leaves Texas to go off to college in the Pacific Northwest, leaving behind her family and friends. Her idyllic ways of thinking are soon challenged. She experiences life on her own. She becomes ingrained into college life,...

Lessons of the Heart: Celebrating the Rhythms of Life

A warm and compelling book that enables readers to see themselves with fresh tenderness. It offers hope and encouragement in the face of the hectic stress-filled demands of contemporary life. Livingston draws on her keen observations to distill central truths and makes these learnings real through t...

This Blessed Mess

Offering hope and encouragement in the face of life's chaos, Pat Livingston's good-humored stories are sure to resonate with readers, especially women. Growing up, she believed that if you work hard and --do the right things-- all will be well. Then chaos happened, nothing universal--just ordinary, ...

From Bitter to Better

Patricia Livingston explores divine compassion and reveals the sacred in the ordinary. She encourages us to experience the daily revelation of God's love and to change from bitter to better. In talk one, "Journey to Compassion," Livingston says that we develop 'kind eyes' as we pass through sufferin...

Daybreaks

The strong opening chords of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" announce the season of Advent. From the Latin words venio, meaning "come," and ad, meaning "to," Advent means "coming to." The curious energy of Advent is the waiting for something that has already happened, the looking for something that is alr...

But Dad!: A Survival Guide for Single Fathers of Tween and Teen Daughters

You’re a smart guy. You read The Perfect Storm and now you find yourself living it. Your daughter, who yesterday was happy to hang out with you at Home Depot, now cries for no known reason. Last week you were her soccer coach and ‘the best dad there ever was, really,’ and today on the way home from ...

Let in the Light: Facing the Hard Stuff with Hope

This title shows that we have it in our power to transform darkness and emerge into light. It encourages us to embrace life's imperfections and open our minds to kindness, laughter, mercy and gratitude.

Let in the Light: Facing the Hard Stuff With Hope