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Journey to Joy: A Fairy Tale for Thresholds and Transitions

Author: Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE, OBLSB
Publisher:
Abbey of the Arts
Publication date:
April 20, 2025
ISBN-13:
978-1068393600

Description

Take a journey to joy!

Sophia has lost her joy and goes on an adventure shaped by the four seasons and four elements to reclaim it. Journey with her as she travels in search of her song, power, wholeness, and ancestral wisdom.

This is an enchanting modern fairy tale for anyone on a threshold or in transition. Has life been draining your joy? Enter the story alongside Sophia and find ways to welcome more joy and meaning back into your life.

Journey to Joy celebrates the gifts of animal guides, healing herbs, nature’s inspiration, and discovering our deeper kinship with one another.

With beautiful illustrations by Domenique Serfontein to inspire and reflection questions to help you integrate the story into your own life, Journey to Joy will spark new perspectives and possibilities.

Purchase Options

This book is published by Abbey of the Arts and available in Kindle and Hardcover formats from Amazon.

We know many of you won’t shop at Amazon with very good reason. The reality for small publishers and writers is that it is one of the best ways to get creative work seen and they offer a print-on-demand and shipping service which creates a lot of ease. We will work on getting it distributed through Ingram as well so that other bookshops can order it, but that may take a bit of time. Thank you for your support!

Praise for the Book

This fairy tale is such good, strong, wise, and delicious medicine! I love the psychologically astute and resonant vibration of it. This is a story for the ages. Of all Christine’s works that I absolutely adore, this is now my favorite. All of it makes my heart sing with recognition. The magic of sharing and generosity as greed’s transmutation.
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD
Author and Translator of several mystical texts
I absolutely love this fairy tale. It resonated deeply with my own experience of healing, bringing in so many strands such as chronic health issues, the role of animals and nature in recovery, the power of journaling and blessing and many, many more. As a therapist and spiritual accompanier, I will be keeping copies to share with clients and friends.
Polly Paton-Brown, MA
Soul Care Practitioner
This story shares the transformative travels of its heroine, Sophia, and enchants the reader along the way. Populated with healing herbs, wise women and animal allies, we follow Sophia’s journey to reclaim a lost part of her soul. Her story reminds us of what is essential to our humanity- the recognition of soul loss and the knowledge of how to retrieve it. In this wonderful fairy-tale, the powers of women, nature and kinship weave together, to birth Sophia a-new. We are reminded that if we dare to walk through these life thresholds, we may encounter our demons, yet discover them to be angels on the other side.
Aisling Richmond, MA
Somatic Therapist and Soul Guide