Blissful thinking:
a memoir of overcoming the wellness revolution
If you’ve ever felt like your spiritual journey was more like a trip around a hamster wheel,
this story proves you should never give up. Especially not on yourself.
When an unexpected divorce forces L.L. Kirchner to confront painful childhood family dynamics, she fears returning to her addictions. To regain her trust in the universe, she tries yoga, meditation, chanting — all the things meant to cultivate bliss. But she keeps finding more flaws.
Blissful Thinking (Motina Books, available 9/26) is the sweeping story of L.L. Kirchner’s search for nirvana that took her from university halls in the Persian Gulf to the streets of Manhattan to a sex cult in India.
She tried everything to find relief, now you don’t have to.
Book trailer for LL Kirchner’s memoir Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution.
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Blissful Thinking is the sweeping story of L.L. Kirchner’s search for nirvana that took her from university halls in the Persian Gulf to the streets of Manhattan to a sex cult in India.
Between her family’s health club and more than a decade in substance abuse recovery, Kirchner felt versed in physical and spiritual wellness. But when her husband demanded a divorce over the phone, she feared a return to her addictions.
She tried yoga, meditation, chanting — all the things meant to cultivate bliss. Each brought some relief, but it wasn’t until she visited a psychic that she knew her life had changed.
In a memoir that’s both rapturous and page-turning, Kirchner captures the terrors and joys of searching for radical honesty — and a second date.
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