Stepping off the Edge

REVIEWS FOR STEPPING OFF THE EDGE:

"Sandy Nathan is an original voice. She is both profoundly mystical and hilariously in-your-face and practical about the everyday details of life. She shares her spiritual journey here, warts and all, but always with an uplifting purpose. Her book is like a having a wise mentor, a kind of AA Sponsor for living a life free from addiction, especially from our fusions with self-loathing, fear, and comfort-at-all-costs. This book is about stepping off the edge and living to tell about it. Read it if you willing to change and become who you are meant to be!"

Rev. Michael A. Maday, M.T.P.
Former senior editor for Unity House, anthologist of New Thought for a New Millennium and
Angels Sing in Me: The James Dillet Freeman Memorial Book.

"Sandy's book speaks with a voice of authenticity born out of her personal odyssey through darkness into spiritual awakening. Her story is one powerful version of the impulse to seek the Divine, which we all contain at our deepest core. She has touched upon the most basic of human struggles; always with a hope of redemption and peace to be found when one becomes present to the sacredness of each moment."

Mary Ann Evans, Ph.D.
Neuropsychologist, mindfulness meditation teacher, and spiritual seeker

"By telling her own raw story, Sandy Nathan calls us to a deeper spiritual place. Her truth guides us like a laser beam towards a reality more real than our short earth life. By exposing her own inner work she calls us to choose growth. This is a book full of resources and exercises and wisdom to be read and reread."

Barbra Minar
Author Walking into the Wind: Being Healthy with a Chronic Disease, Disking Dee, and other books

"Engaging, honest and well written, Stepping off the Edge reads like a good novel. I was struck by Sandy's genuineness and courage in sharing her journey. She is profoundly mystical and hilariously in-your-face practical about the everyday details of life. Read it if you are willing to change and become who you are meant to be."

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Brenda Snodgrass
Ordained and licensed minister, who along with her husband Mike, works with the homeless addicts near their church home in Dallas, Texas.

"Sometimes life's truths are best expressed not by the Einsteins of this world, but by people who raise incredible children, horses, and households, who naturally and intuitively recognize how the mystical worlds entwine themselves with the particulars of everyday and not so everyday life. Sandy Nathan has a particularly refreshing honesty that invites you to step beyond the limits of what is comfortable on your spiritual journey and then laugh at your own resistance."

Sudama Mark Kennedy, M.A.
United Nations award-winning healer, spiritual teacher, minister, musician, poet and scholar.

"Sandy Nathan put herself into every page of her book. Only a truly confident and trusting person would make themselves so vulnerable to readers. It's easy to trust her. After reading the book, I feel as if I know her. There are parts of her that I recognize in myself. I suspect, so will most readers.

The author takes us on a journey of self-discovery. Figuratively speaking, Sandy packed her RV, bought a guidebook, and left. She went where spirit led and by journey's end (although, the journey never really ends) was exactly where she was supposed to be. Chances are, if you're reading this review, you've already packed your bags."

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Susan Sales Harkins
Software consultant and the author of several articles and books on database technologies.

"I was struck by Sandy's genuineness and courage in sharing her journey and recovery. Her writing and the life it reveals are examples of the miracles that can happen when a person is committed to achieving freedom. Such miracles occur through work and perseverance. My life has shown me that healing is not simply a physical process, but an emotional and spiritual awakening. This book is a perfect example of that."

William T. O'Donnell, Jr.
Founder, Sierra Tucson, Inc.
Sierra Tucson is a comprehensive inpatient treatment facility helping individuals and families
overcome addiction and behavioral disorders and rebuild their lives.

"Each person's spiritual experience is unique. No one can tell another how to do it, how to find a meaningful, value-filled, purposeful life. But every person who seeks for that deeply soulful life is on a journey and it is perhaps the most important journey one can take. Sandy Nathan shares her journey with us and that is a gift. She takes us to specific places we may never go, but she reveals the larger paths that each of us will travel in seeking to find our Selves. Hers is a wonderful story of one woman's quest."

Dorothy Firman, Ed.D., LMHC
Psychosynthesis trainer, The Synthesis Center, Amherst, MA; professor at Vermont College, psychotherapist and author of Daughters and Mothers: Making it Work and Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul (A New York Times Bestseller).

"Engaging, honest, & well written, Stepping Off the Edge will help many by bringing to light a little-known addiction. As a financial recovery counselor, I know that people can get into financial trouble in ways that aren't the usual credit or spending problems. On-line auction addiction is a new problem that I've never seen addressed the way it is here. In addition to presenting a compelling and engrossing story, Sandy demonstrates the adage applying to addiction: We are never free--we have daily reprieves."

Karen McCall
Founder and director The Financial Recovery Institute, speaker, trainer, and author of the MoneyMinder & Workbook, It's Your Money: Achieving Financial Well-Being, contributor to I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self

"Sandy Nathan has not only captured the essence of the Gathering, but she has also scattered the seeds of its healing to others. Sandy, in Stepping off the Edge, sharing her flaws, her fears, her uncertainties, so that readers can connect, open up, and begin the healing process. I am both awed and humbled that the Gathering, with its tiny beginnings nearly a decade ago, now speaks to the hearts of so many hurting people through Bill Miller's words and, now, Sandy's book. Thank you, Sandy, for listening to that inner voice. Aho."

Delilah F. O'Haynes, Ed.D,
Instructor, Concord University.
A founder of the Native American Ministries (NAM) of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church,
Former NAM Board Member, Current NAM Resource.
(The Gathering, the Native American spiritual retreat in Stepping Off the Edge, is produced by NAM.)

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