Your Everyday Awakening is right in front of you.
Will you choose it?
In a fast-paced, turbulent world, it’s often hard to feel vibrantly alive. Constantly living from our minds has led to overwhelming feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression—often manifesting as chronic health conditions.
We’re yearning for more peace, love, meaning, and embodied aliveness. We’re yearning for awakening.
Awakening is often portrayed as mysterious, complicated, and dramatic or something that requires traveling to a distant country and sitting at the feet of an enlightened guru. But it’s actually something we can choose to do, by engaging five simple and profound practices:
Coming back to the present moment
Connecting with something greater
Growing our trust
Embodying love
Holding openness
Everyday Awakening integrates the best of spirituality, neuroscience, psychology, and therapy so you can change how you embrace every day, every moment, and every choice.
Your Everyday Awakening is right in front of you.
“Everyday Awakening is your road map to living a fully engaged life. Catherine’s story and her five practices are refreshingly accessible. She doesn’t just talk about awakening—she’s lived it, and teaches you how to stop sleepwalking through your life and start living it!”
—MEL ROBBINS, New York Times bestselling author and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast
“Everyday Awakening is a beautiful guide to living a more vibrant, joy-filled life. Catherine Duncan teaches us what it means to live fully, drawing on her years of walking with people at the end of life. You’ll feel Catherine’s wisdom and radiant heart as you follow the five practices and awaken your heart and soul. This book has the power to transform our individual and collective lives.”
—SHAUNA SHAPIRO, PHD
professor, author of Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and
Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy
“In this beautifully written, intelligent, yet heart-centered work, Catherine Duncan has merged a traditional religious orientation with cutting-edge psychological insights and tools that will empower the aspiring soul on its way to awakening.”
—JOHN RUSKAN
author of Emotional Clearing and Deep Clearing
About the Author
Drawing from decades of her personal and professional experience in healthcare, spiritual care, and complementary healing, Catherine Duncan offers a wealth of options—including breathwork, meditations, grounding rituals, and other exercises—for bringing each of the five practices into your daily life. You will begin to move from stress to presence, from your mind into your heart and soul.
Catherine Duncan, MA, BCC, is passionate about whole person healing. Her focus as an integrative spiritual consultant is emotional and spiritual health. With a reverence for the sacredness of life, she companions individuals who are struggling with chronic illness, life transitions, grief and loss, and those searching for more meaning and purpose.
She sees clients through her own private practice, Learning to Live, LLC, and as a consultant with Minnesota Personalized Medicine, an integrative medical practice in Minneapolis.
In her work, she draws on her experience as a board-certified chaplain and certified spiritual director; her training in positive neuroplasticity with Rick Hanson, PhD; and her education in a range of alternative healing modalities, including Reiki, Healing Touch, qigong, the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)/tapping, and sound healing.
Why this book? Why now?
In a post pandemic world we have all questioned our life, love, and health. Someone who has been doing this from the age of 11 is Catherine Duncan. She faced her death as a child and started her search on what it means to be alive. How can you learn to be present and appreciate life without coming close to death? This is why Everyday Awakening was written. Everyday Awakening’s daily practices will sharpen your understanding and appreciation of what it means to be alive right now.
“Everyday Awakening is a beautiful guide to living a more vibrant, joy-filled life. Catherine Duncan teaches us what it means to live fully, drawing on her years of walking with people at the end of life. You’ll feel Catherine’s wisdom and radiant heart as you follow the five practices and awaken your heart and soul. This book has the power to transform our individual and collective lives.”
—SHAUNA SHAPIRO, PHD
professor, author of Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and
Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy
