Judith's Books
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The Italian Soul offers practical guidance into how we can transport a taste of the Italian “good life” into our own homes. Additionally, it explores the contemplative practices and attitudes that seem to come naturally to a people who have made an art of living and working joyfully. It is both a travel dispatch and a spirituality guide for seekers who eschew traditional religious practices but are yearning for ways to bring more balance, sanity, and a greater sense of the transcendent into their daily lives.The Italian Soul is available for pre-order at the following booksellers:
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This book is a dialogue between two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a married professional woman. It is two people “stuttering to articulate life’s universal questions from diverse contexts and perspectives.”
How To Live: What The Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning and Community
In How to Live, Judith Valente explores the key elements of the rule and clearly demonstrates how incorporating this ancient wisdom can change the quality and texture of our lives offering a way forward from the divisions gripping our country.
Read a review by Gregory Hillis of How To Live:
“A few years ago, I sat down with a Trappist monk under a gingko tree in a courtyard of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. We were talking about the spiritual life, and I expressed to him my envy that he, a monk in a contemplative order, had the time and the opportunity to devote himself to long periods of prayer and silence…”
The Art of Pausing:
Meditations for the Overworked and Overwhelmed
“The Art of Pausing is a unique book for people who know they need to slow down but aren’t sure how to do it… This is the perfect gift for yourself or for anyone you love who is ‘overworked and overwhelmed,’ which is most of us on most of our days.”
– Gregory F. Augustine Pierce,
author of
Spirituality at Work:
10 Ways to Balance Your Life On-the-Job
Twenty Poems To Nourish Your Soul
“This is a thoroughly engaging and illuminating book. Judith Valente and Charles Reynard show us how we, too, can enter a poem through the openings our own lives give us.”
– Rosellen Brown
author of Before and After
and Tender Mercies
Inventing An Alphabet
A Collection of Poems
“[Her poems] own their own beauty, offer themselves abundantly to metaphor. Judith has constructed an active, even frisky language, pulling into the poem references and allusions that tease our minds as they amplify the poem’s subject and mood and landscape.”
– Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Discovering Moons
“The moon in the title of Judith Valente’s book, Discovering Moons, becomes, after reading these deeply felt poems, the moon invisibly tethered to earth, as spirit and body are mysteriously tethered in Valente’s work.”
– Stuart Dybeck, author,
Streets in Their Own Ink