Silver Linings: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Renewal During Times of Transition .

"Silver Linings will open your heart and soul to the ultimate gifts your trauma has to offer you. It is an astonishing guide to the power trauma has to deeply transform and heal your life at every level. You can trust Melissa, and this book, as a guide for opening into and receiving this wisdom and new life."
Jeanne Achterberg, PhD , author of Lightning at the Gate: A Visionary Journey of Healing and Rituals of Healing: Using Imagery for Health and Wholeness

"I absolutely love Silver Linings. What a tremendous comfort to know that hardship doesn't need to ruin a life - it can truly enhance it! Highest recommendation to anyone and everyone facing trauma in their life."
Janet Luhrs , author of The Simple Living Guide and Simple Loving

"An eloquent and important book on the role of trauma as one of the ways that life initiates us into new capacities, new vision, and new identity. For anyone facing that initiation, this book is a powerful and loving companion to the process that can lift us from despair and simple endurance to the birth of a new life and new joy."
David Spangler . author of Blessings and Everyday Miracles

"In her powerful and inspiring book, Silver Linings, Melissa compassionately guides us on a ground-breaking path to claim the wisdom and grace in our most difficult moments."
Katherine Martin , author of Women of Courage and Women of Spirit

"Silver Linings is an excellent guide to help you emerge from trauma to a deeper appreciation of all aspects of life and a deeper wisdom. I highly recommend the book to physicians, counselors, and all people who are struggling with misfortunes in their lives."
Pamela M. Kircher, MD , author of Love is the Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares Her Experiences of Near-Death and Dying

"Melissa West lovingly and expertly helps us cross the difficult thresholds in life brought on by traumatic events. Silver Linings helps cultivate the conditions-inner and outer-for a sacred form of alchemy to occur, an alchemy that transforms misfortune into healing, wisdom, authenticity, courage, and compassion."
Todd Pearson, MD, Executive Director, Center for Physician Renewal

"Reverberating with authenticity and compassion, Silver Linings is a powerfully insightful book, a guide on the journey out the mire of trauma, a beacon of light to a full and joyful life."
Joyce Hawkes, PhD Biophysics, Fellow, The American Society for the Advancement of Science , author of The Nature of Healing

Exploring the Labyrinth: A Guide for Healing and Personal Growth.

"The labyrinth is a marvelous tool for spiritual upliftment. This book explains its power and releases its secrets."
Marianne Williamson , author of Everyday Grace

"Exploring the Labyrinth focuses on practical advice, spiritual wisdom and helpful resources for experiencing, building and using labyrinths. Stories of personal transformation, healing and ceremony make this one of the most complete and thought-provoking guides on this ancient symbol ever written."
Neal Harris , author of Pocket Stress Manager

"West has gathered many interesting stories about why people walk the labyrinth and what they derive from this experience. The most revealing and helpful part of the book deals with the ways people have made walking the labyrinth into a playground for Spirit. Equally impressive is her overview of rituals that can be done in conjunction with this tool for transformation."
Spirituality and Health Magazine review

"This is easily one of the best contemporary guidebooks on this fascinating and evolving form of spiritual practice."
Gail Hudson

"The hows and whys of labyrinths-how to construct them and why to use them-by a woman dedicated to labyrinth walking as a means of meditation and spiritual renewal. West, a devoted labyrinth walker, recommends the practice as a way to promote physical healing, mark the passage of major life events, heighten creativity, and renew the spirit. Stories of her own and others' experiences offer testimonials to the spiritual and psychological power of walking the labyrinth. A practical how-to manual replete with the zeal of a labyrinth enthusiast."
Kirkus Reviews

Soulful Living: The Process of Personal Transformation (co-edited with Rick and Mary Nurrie-Stearns).

"This book teaches us to engage the world. It is a marvelous collection of inspiring insights into the process of personal transformation and how to apply these realizations to daily life."
Larry Dossey, MD , author of Healing Words and Prayer is Good Medicine

"A book that will be a guide and companion on journeys of self-discovery and help open the way to living richer, more rewarding lives. This book is designed to inspire readers on their conscious transformational journeys. This book will be readers' guide and companion on their journeys of self-discovery and will help open their way to living richer, more rewarding lives. Readers who seek guidance on the journey of self-discovery and personal transformation are sure to love this exceptional compilation."
Ingram

If Only I Were A Better Mother.

"A guide to motherhood as a spiritual path, offering mothers a safe place in which to honor all their feelings and needs, teaching them how to understand the "dark side" of mothering--the anger, fear, grief, despair, and guilt. Highly original."
Ingram

"If Only I Were a Better Mother has fire, originality, and depth. I recommend it highly."
Richard Moss, MD , author of The Black Butterfly and Director of the Three Mountain Foundation

"If only I had had the encouraging humanness and the inspiring spiritual slant of Melissa's book when I was raising my kids, I could have been a better mother."
Sue Patton Theole , author of The Women's Book of Courage