Risk Everything for Love
Awakening is not for the Faint of Heart
“The universal journey into the underworld is lightened by being in the company of those whose commitment arises from the ashes of being burned by the sacred fires of what Truth has asked them to bear.”
Awakening is not for the Faint of Heart is a raw, soul-stirring journey into what it truly means to awaken - to yourself, to truth, and to the fierce, transformative power of love. With unflinching honest and poetic insight, this book invites you to strip away the illusions that keep you safe but small, and step boldly into the vulnerability that leads to real freedom. It’s not easy. It’s not tidy. But it is everything. We are perpetual students of life and love has ‘our back’ no matter what. If you’re ready to risk comfort for connection, fear for freedom, and numbness for radical aliveness, this is your call to courage.
In 2022, like many people all over the world, Beth Miller contracted Long Covid. In the months to come, as the illness settled in to stay, she was forced to surrender to it in body and spirit. By entering the unknown and slowly embracing illness as her teacher, she found peace amidst the turmoil of a chronic illness and layers of past trauma, ultimately becoming more alive (than she had ever been). In this heartfelt, profound, and poignant memoir Beth Miller generously shares with us how to “become comfortable with the uncomfortable” and trust in the mystery of life.
“For any who believe that Awakening to our true nature will guarantee a life of ease, this book is an important reminder that What is free and ever-present in all of us does not shy away from anything in the wholeness of Being. ”
“In this wise, poignant, and soulful little book, Beth Miller shares her post-awakening encounter with Long Covid and the subsequent ‘dark night’ that led to the healing and transformation of deeply buried parts of her psyche, liberating her capacity to love and trust embodied life as it is. ”
“Reading this book was like slipping into a pool of presence where I felt myself grow larger and more spacious with each page. In her quiet, incisive way, Beth Miller takes the reader on a walk through her psychological and spiritual interior as she is sieged by a physical post-viral illness. ”