This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson

Get “full-fat spiritual”. How to have an active practice-beyond the “lite” “rainbows and unicorns”-and use it to change the world.

Become a soul nerd. Embrace poetry, deep reading, art, and classical music to light up your intellect.

#Buylesslivemore. Break the cycle of mindless consumption and get light with your life: Ditch your car, stop shopping, and live out of one bag.

Do what scares you and embrace discomfort daily. Just hike. Great minds throughout history have embraced the “walking cure” and we should do the same. En route, she shows us how to wake up an reconnect with life with “wild practices” that include: Drawing on science, literature, philosophy and the wisdom of some of the world’s leading experts, and her personal journey, Wilson weaves a one-of-a-kind narrative that lights the way back to the life we love.

This One Wild and Precious Life opens our eyes to how we got here and offers a radically hopeful path forward. Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us-that deep down, we are all feeling that same itch for a new way of living. We have retreated, morally and psychologically we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection-from one another, from our true values, from joy, and from life as we feel we are meant to be living it. Many of us are living with the sense that things are not right with the world, as global problems like the pandemic, the climate crisis, political polarization, and social injustice mount, leaving us in a state of spiritual PTSD. Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one, wild and precious life? From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson comes a spiritual guidebook for surviving and thriving during challenging times. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love.” - ELIZABETH GILBERT “Sarah Wilson is a force of nature – quite literally.

This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson