A practical and wise guide for finding your way through changing times by navigating energy within yourself and daily life. If you weren't already convinced, climate change, a global pandemic and an increasingly divided world has revealed some essential truths. Whether we like it or not, control is an illusion. You may want to be the architect of your life, but often living fully includes facing loss and things you’d rather avoid. Life is change. And when change comes knocking, it can feel overwhelming, especially with challenges around health, money and work. But here’s some good news: embracing the uncertainty inside change can become fertile ground for new beginnings. The key is to let go of control and follow the energy . To help you do this, Staci Boden draws upon 25 years of energy healing and somatic practice to introduce eight teachers: fear, awareness, choice, body, intuition, energy, intention, and surrender. "It's time to realize energy matters. Just as we develop our minds, emotions and bodies, our ability to work with energy is essential for thriving." Staci Boden, 10th anniversary edition preface, Turning Dead Ends into Doorways With Boden’s compassionate and clear guidance, you’ll learn to: recognize fear as a source of awareness - transform codependency in relationships - call on the wisdom of your body - trust your intuition - practice letting go to free yourself - activate creative potential By exploring powerful tools and somatic exercises, you’ll become an active participant in what feels more like a personal journey than just a book. In the end, you’ll find a kind of power and resilience that you can carry into any life circumstance because it lives inside. Start today and discover the boundless power of moving from control to trust. This book will change your life if you let it. " Turning Dead Ends into Doorways comes at a time when all of us are seeking a way out of the chaos. This practical guide can help us embrace our fear of change by letting go and allowing Life's Mystery to reveal the way." -- Jyoti Ma , Grandmother Vision Keeper, international spiritual teacher, cofounder Center for Sacred Studies "Staci Boden is the ideal guide for navigating the unknown. She is the wise friend, the generous teacher, the compassionate soul-sister you've always wished for. In this book, Staci introduces a practice and a path that will help you move from control to trust, no matter what challenges you are facing. If you are seeking a practical spirituality that makes deep wisdom accessible (and applicable) in everyday life, this is the book for you. If you would like to awaken your capacity to experience grace and gratitude--in any circumstance--this is the book for you. Staci has transformed my appreciation for life as it as--while awakening the possibilities for life as it could be." -- Sage Cohen, author of Fierce on the Page, The Productive Writer, and Like the Heart, the World " Turning Dead Ends into Doorways offers up a complete and masterful healing journey. It offers, in the most holistic way I've seen it offered, practical guidance to support each of us in becoming who we are next meant to be. This book will change your life if you let it. Buy it. Read it. Live it. You won't be sorry." Alana Sheeren , grief/life coach and blogger "To today's anxious, frenzied world, Staci Boden offers a big in-breath. In Turning Dead Ends into Doorways , she lays out the path of 'practical spirituality.' Rooted in the ups and downs of daily family and work life, the path embraces the Divine by opening compassionately to the unknown within and without. Boden walks her talk, and as we follow her through the challenges and traumas of her life as a wife, mother, friend, birthing doula and healer, we grow along with her. A candid, rare and immensely helpful book, especially for women in transition or crisis." -- Meg Lundstrom , author of What to do When You Can't Decide "An enlightening, deep, real, illusion-busting, door-opening must read if you are seeking your own real-life answers and personal strength. I love that Ms. Boden isn't afraid to delve into the nitty gritty aspects of real living. Written in a down-to-earth, personal style with deep compassion for the human experience and mystery of life, this treasure is a potent guide to practical living. You'll want to devour every line and put it to work in your life right away." -- Colleen Deatsman , author of The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism and Seeing in the Dark: Claim Your Own Shamanic Power Now and in the Coming Age