Creating your path to peace of mind:

Maggie Oman Shannon Champions the Importance of Creating  in a Busy and Often Chaotic World:

The author of Crafting Calm and interfaith minister shares her philosophical take on beauty.

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Maggie Oman Shannon, author of Crafting Calm

Ultimately, connecting to our creativity can help us connect to our spirituality. In other words, crafting can become a spiritual practice."

— Psych Central

(PRWEB) June 11, 2013

Interfaith minister Maggie Oman Shannon claims that cultivating and noticing beauty is far from frivolous. In her new book Crafting Calm, she relates personal stories and step-by-step how-to's on DIY projects that help people get in touch with their spiritual side. As she explains on Inspire Me Today, "There is always something lovely to be found, always; and the search for it or deliberate creation of it is never frivolous. John Keats was right: Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty." When most of the world is determined to shut down creativity in favor of being "realistic" or practical, Maggie Oman Shannon's is one of the lone voices encouraging people to put busyness on pause and focus on small, simple moments of peace and beauty.

Oman Shannon has also recently appeared on the the popular podcast Tranquility du Jour with Kimberly Wilson. The two experts discuss how to make time for crafting in the midst of a busy schedule, and talk about the importance of finding a few moments for peace. As a mother with a jam-packed schedule herself, Oman Shannon knows from experience how hard scheduling time for calmness can be. But, as she so boldly states, the active and mindful focus on beauty is a "political statement" and a "spiritual practice," and the inner peace it can bring is well worth the effort.

Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon, M.A., is an interfaith minister, spiritual director, workshop and retreat facilitator, and author of five books, including Prayers for Healing and A String and a Prayer: How to Make and Use Prayer Beads. In 2000, Maggie Oman Shannon founded The New Story, a coaching and consulting business focused on helping people create deeper meaning in their lives. Shannon currently has the honor of serving as Spiritual Director of Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and nine-year-old daughter.

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Love your mother!

Mother, Mom, Mommy, Ma, Mama, Mum-there are many ways to call the person who brings everyone into this world. To thank and delight the woman who means so much this Mother's Day, look no further. Viva Editions has parenting guides the cover every age of childhood from top parenting experts Blythe Lipman and Dr. John Duffy. Kate Hopper encourages moms to write their "mother stories" and Maggie Oman Shannon has over 40 idea for projects to foster creativity and contemplation. Mom's the Word celebrates motherhood and Girlfriends Forever celebrates those women moms can't live without. Whether Mom needs help with everything, or just a bit of encouragement, give her the gift of inspired living.

Mom's the Word
The Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder of Motherhood
by Allen Klein
Heartwarming and humorous, this tribute to moms of the world gathers the best things anyone ever said about motherhood. From beloved role models to movers and shakers, women (and a few men) crack wise on the subject at the center of everyone's life, mommy dearest!

Crafting Calm
Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation
by Maggie Shannon
Maggie Oman Shannon's Crafting Calm is a DIY guide to peace of mind, offering an abundance of ways to achieve serenity and satisfaction by living the handmade life. Author Oman Shannon, the spiritual director of a Unity Church, explores crafts and creativity as a lifelong practice with enormous physical, emotional and spiritual benefits.

Use Your Words
A Writing Guide for Mothers
by Kate Hopper
Award-winning writer Kate Hopper has spent nearly a decade teaching women to write down the bones of motherhood. Now, in Use Your Words, her expert guidance will encourage mothers to write the stories they need to write, whether the goal is to blog, publish magazine articles, or pen the next blockbuster memoir.

Lemons and Lavender
The Eco Guide to Better Homekeeping
by Billee Sharp
Bursting with ways to downshift, simplify, preserve resources, and honor the planet, Lemons and Lavender will give moms tools to reclaim a purer, tastier, healthier and less expensive way of life.

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Put down your smart phone and pick up some prayer beads:

There is a quiet revolution going on, wherein people are choosing to “live the handmade life.” Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon illustrates that you can "craft the crazy away" through beading and crocheting, candle-making, and collaging.

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Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation

(PRWEB) April 10, 2013

New from Viva Editions, Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation, a D.I.Y. guide to peace of mind, explores crafts and creativity as a spiritual practice providing enormous benefits. Maggie Oman Shannon takes a rich “potpourri approach” that weaves together interviews, historical facts, "Soul Craft" projects for readers, quotations, and suggested resources.

Shannon has facilitated workshops to help others “tap into that deep well within themselves where the waters of creativity, spirituality and personal identity blend and swirl.” Discover the arts of making prayer beads and prayer shawls, creating a Biblical garden, love boxes, mandalas and tiny altars or one of the many other activities to open the creative flow, and help with relaxation.

Maggie Oman Shannon will be at these events leading workshops of calming crafts:
4/19: Towne Center Books, Pleasanton, CA - 11am
4/19: A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland, CA - 7pm
4/24: Inside Edge Interim, Irvine, CA - 7am
4/28: Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco, Ocean Ave
5/2: Bookshop West Portal, San Francisco - 7pm
5/4: Books Inc. Alameda, CA - 7pm
5/23: Readers Books, Sonoma, CA - 7:30pm
5/30: Book Passage, San Francisco, CA - 6pm
6/9: Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco, Bush St

Listen to Maggie on the radio on these shows:
4/10: Soul Journeys Radio, 5-7pm PST
4/18: The Soul Directed Life, 11am PST
4/22: Inside Personal Growth, 9am PST
5/22: Energy Awareness, 3-4pm PST
7/3: Publishers Weekly Radio, 12pm PST

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