Inner Spark: Finding Calm in a Stressful World

Change is inevitable, but how can we learn to navigate struggle and appreciate how emotions ebb and flow? Kristin Vikjord presents a practical toolkit of exercises to help find, regain, and nurture your inner spark. Drawing on her experiences as a Clinical Psychologist and yoga and mindfulness facilitator, Kristin combines these complimentary, integrative therapies for a book that has the scientific mind of a psychologist and the heart and soul of yoga teacher. In Inner Spark, Kristin offers eight ‘prescriptions for wellbeing’ including practical activities that match up to the three sections of the book: normalization, clarification, and agency. She explains how pathways in the brain work, showing how, and crucially why, it's important for anyone navigating a difficult time, physically or mentally, to have a toolkit for re-connection. Kristin Vikjord has effectively harnessed the long Scandinavian winters to stoke her own inner spark and created this guide that will help readers embrace the challenges of modern life, from burnout to navigating new parenthood.