Aukje began writing early and used writing and journaling to gain clarity and achieve more joy and gratitude in her life. She has been a great lover of natural beauty and the outdoors since she was very young. Canada was her home from age 12 on, and her family travelled this lovely country from coast to coast.
Her publishing began with a first prize in a short story contest, then she published poetry and feature articles. At age 49, she designed a journal writing process that is very effective for moving oneself forward to more emotional and spiritual maturity.
Aukje raised three children and finished her Master’s in Counselling and used these skills in private practice, her retreat centre, and in work in Indigenous communities in northern Alberta. Her passion is to guide others to be empowered to take charge of their lives and pursue their potential. Writing soothes and opens up avenues of creativity.
Want to embrace getting older with joy and wisdom? This book helps us resonate with being a calming grandparent who is also engaged and real.
For those wishing to understand aging parents, and for grandparents themselves, you will find inner strength, self-acceptance, humour, and enhanced communication with those around you.
The author uses reflection, journaling, and other processing techniques to increase our grounding in this world, while integrating the spiritual and sensual. Each chapter has a section on practical exercises that help to move us forward.
Being well-grounded in both body and spirit enhances our presence in a tumultuous world while radiating and finding our own serenity, calm, and gratitude. This book offers new perspectives with down-to-earth guidance.
Spiritual paths are rarely a straight line.
Fear Not Mystery is an absorbing memoir describing the author’s passage of reconciling her religious upbringing with forging her own spiritual path. The consequence of growing up amidst a strict, structural religious environment, with the loss of her own spiritual awareness, forms the backdrop of her search for authenticity and connection.
Aukje Kapteyn shares her insights from her life’s work, her immersive experiences in the natural world and the body, which heightened her sense of oneness with all and seeing the Divine in all things. Wise and relatable, the stories of loss and alienation, awe and mystery found in this book reveal the universal experience of inner wisdom, letting go of the illusion of control and surrendering to the grace and freedom of spirit that is our birthright.
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