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"Depression as a Spiritual Journey" is the first book to address depression as a
spiritual journey in the context of medication and counselling. It serves as an
invitation to reframe depression in a new way. Many people resist embracing
medication as part of the healing process. Others confuse emotional and mental
dis-ease. What is the difference between melancholia and clinical depression?
Why do people today suffer from an assortment of depressions rather than good
old- fashioned melancholia? What is the difference between psychosis and
depression, or the dark night of the soul and depression? What criteria do we
use to make these distinctions? Stephanie Sorrell defines some of these
distinctions and unearths many of our mindsets that shape our ambivalent
attitude to depression. More than anything, Stephanie validates depression as a
valuable and integral part of the journey with all its gains, losses and
insight. She does not provide easy answers, but encourages the reader to face
the very real challenge of working with depression as a spiritual guide and teacher.

Roberto Assagioli's innovative work, which began in 1n 1910, went beyond his
contemporaries, Freud, Jung and Reich, to embrace wholeness on all levels.
Because of this, psychosynthesis has become known as 'the psychology of the
soul.' This psychospiritual psychology aims to uncover the layers of complexity
which render the personal will powerless. Through a process of bringing
awareness to unconscious processes in the psyche, each masquerading as 'sub
personalities' the self can achieve integration and synthesis between the
personality and the Self (spirit). Psychosynthesis aims to heighten awareness of
one observing 'I' so that a dialogue can take place between the self
(personality) and the Self. This awareness is expanded through visualization
exercises, meditation and utilization of the will which can work in service of
the 'Divine.' Today psychosynthesis provides a simple, yet scientific template
where psychology, soul and spirituality can meet on mutual ground.

 Nature as Mirror addresses the natural cycles in our lives and the reflection of
our own inner process in nature. Basing our psychospiritual development on the
model of the tree a symbol of the continuity of life Stephanie Sorrell shows how
we may understand the rhythms and cycles of the tree and integrate them into our
vision in a conscious way. Through the lens of the natural world there is no
such thing as death only transformation. Once we understand this we can
transform our lives by removing mankind's deepest fear of death and non being.
In this way Nature as Mirror is an ecological guidebook for body mind and soul.