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Fireflies Dancing in the Dark: Hope in Challenging Times
Who needs hope in challenging times?
Where can you find a survivor of some of life’s hardest challenges who inspires and thrives? Here, in Fireflies Dancing in the Dark: Hope in Challenging Times, you discover Annette Miller’s deep grief, awe in being human, hope, recovery and a new lifestyle of resilience.
After struggling for years, her darkness became unbearable following the birth of her twins. Although her husband was encouraging and supportive, nothing relieved her agony.
Eventually her psychiatrist was able to identify four mental health issues, bipolar II, depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Physical health conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID and chronic pain, exacerbated her health problems.
Surrounding herself with a village of various professionals, family members and trustworthy friends, she gradually developed heightened self-awareness and recognized unhealthy thinking patterns that stifled her for decades.
Ambitious, creative, yearning to find the light, over time she established healthy thinking patterns and created sustaining self-care routines. Now she is realizing a joyous life of wellbeing.
Many of the 81 blogs, poems and short stories in Fireflies Dancing in the Dark were composed during the COVID pandemic. Those days paralleled political upheaval and societal division reminiscent of oil and water. Chapters include Being Human, Life Skills, Mental Wellness, Politics, Death and Grief, and Recovery and Hope.
Also, at the time of publication, the US democracy is under severe internal stress. Many people feel threatened and scared. Uncertainty is a part of daily life. Optimism is hard to come by.
The author offers this compilation to inspire and encourage you, whatever you are facing. Let these writings hearten you to embrace the best of the universe and humankind. Grab a cup of coffee and let Annette Miller be your new friend. You, too, can learn to dance in the dark with the fireflies.
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Daring the Dark: A Workbook for Exploring Your Evolving Spiritual Questions
Are you a spiritual explorer?
Finally, a safe place to ask and process your own spiritual questions.
Born out of her passion to help others wrestling with spiritual questions, author Annette Miller shares this guide. Using internal exploration and brainstorming, research and critical thinking, you will explore various resources and grapple with potential answers to your spiritual question.
Many traditional churches do not support spiritual seekers. Churches typically offer a package of beliefs for new members to adopt as-is. Authentic faith cannot be grafted, it must grow from within. Annette Miller believes that everyone deserves to ask questions in a supportive environment and to work out their own answers. Miller’s writings and services fill this gap by providing a faith-based, practical process that provides needed guidance and support to explore these important evolving questions.
Praise for Daring the Dark
"With her in-depth knowledge of human behavior, Annette Miller balances spiritual passion, intellect, and an amazing gift for detail in Daring the Dark. Years as a life coach, entrepreneur and behavioral assessment consultant have equipped her well for illuminating the difference between our external behaviors and our internal, existential questions.
Annette reveals how repressing her own spiritual questions came at the price of physical and emotional distress. She structures this journey of critical thinking with the insight of an experienced spiritual seeker and the precision of a surgeon, reassuring us all along the way that we may safely unwrap our inborn gift of curiosity. Get ready for a disciplined adventure that opens a fresh window to your spiritual formation and personal growth."
DAN McGEE, PH.D., Author, Choosing Balance: The ABCs of Stress® Management and Experiencing God’s Presence: A Personal Journey Through Six Spiritual Disciplines
"If God is the Mystery of the world, faith will always be seeking greater understanding. Annette Miller’s Daring the Dark is a helpful, practical guide to probing spiritual questions. It turns out that exploring the questions themselves is the path to growth more than settling on the answers."
REV. DR. GEORGE A. MASON, Senior Pastor Emeritus
Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas
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Inspirational Quote Cards from Daring the Dark
Inspire yourself and others by displaying and sharing these inspirational quotes from Daring the Dark by Annette Miller. “Daring the dark” means courageously facing your spiritual doubts and questions. Twenty-two original quotes on cards.
Fun ways to share Inspirational Quotes:
- Hand deliver it with flowers or food
- Use it in a gift exchange
- Display it beside your computer
- Tape it to the bathroom mirror
- Insert it in a note or letter
- Place it in a loved one's bag or briefcase
- Use it as a bookmark
- Slip it under their door
- Tuck it under a windshield wiper
- Leave it with your tip for the waiter
- Sneak it inside a Christmas stocking or a random gift
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The LifeSync Path(TM): Design a Life of Wellbeing
Annette's upcoming book series is The LifeSync Path(TM): Design Your Life of Wellbeing. This set of five books will equip people with guidance, inspiration, forms and assessments for their own journey of deepening wellbeing. Book 1 covers a personal mission statement, core values, primal world beliefs and more.
Daring the Dark Guided Journal: A Primer for Spiritual Exploration
With insights from volunteers from the Evolving Faith community, author Annette Miller is writing a new guided journal in her Daring the Dark group of books. The journal is for those disillusioned with religion who are interested in a jump-start to exploring spirituality.
Nine episodes, each with seven undated entries for the days of the week, are presented. The reader is led through debriefing past spiritual experiences, working through negative and positive emotions related to spirituality, visioning how they want their spiritual life to evolve, and discovering her Daring the Dark process for working through a spiritual question.