Acedia & Me : A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover)

from seph

I picked this book up when I was suffering a bout of depression and looking for a handhold or two to aid in my climb out. It's not so much a self-help book as it is a memoir, but there are always lessons in other people's struggles, and there were lots of valuable lessons shared here. I was thril...

from zibilee

Though almost everyone is familiar with depression, acedia is a much less well known affliction. Mostly a term used in the monastic community, acedia can be described as a type of emotional slothfulness. Everyday tasks become harder and more pointless to perform, and emotions are dulled almost to...

from reader247

Kathleen Norris parallels some of her life with the ancient "soul weariness" term acedia. Partly a memoir and partly poetry, she looks at her life and this slothful, soul weary indifference that we really can relate to in many ways in our world today. This was at times very hard to read when Norr...

from jocraddock

Acedia & me By Kathleen Norris Hardcover: 352 pps. Publisher: Riverhead Books ISBN: 978-1-59448-996-9 Kathleen Norris' memoir brings us her personal journey of spiritual awakening, acedia, depression, meditation and loss. Although I've appreciated Norris' stories in The CloisterWalk, and some of ...

from nmele

A mix of personal reminiscences and an examination of the phenomena lumped together under the title "acedia", this book held my interest throughout, and gave me some resources for further reading, not always on the subject of acedia.