Nurture the Wow

National Jewish Book Award Finalist 2016A deeply affecting funny insightful meditation that challenges readers to find the spiritual meaning of parenting. Every day parents are bombarded by demands. The pressures of work and life are relentless; our children’s needs are often impossible to meet; and we rarely if ever allow ourselves the time and attention necessary to satisfy our own inner longings. Parenthood is difficult demanding and draining. And yet argues Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg if we can approach it from a different mindset perhaps the work of parenting itself can offer the solace we seek. Rooted in Judaism but incorporating a wide-range of religious and literary traditions Nurture the Wow asks Can ancient ideas about relationships drudgery pain devotion and purpose help make the hard parts of a parent’s job easier and the magical stuff even more so? Ruttenberg shows how parenting can be considered a spiritual practice―and how seeing it that way can lead to transformation. This is a parenthood book not a parenting book; it shows how the experiences we have as parents can change us for the better. Enlightening uplifting and laugh-out-loud funny Nurture the Wow reveals how parenthood―in all its crazy-making rage-inducing awe and joy-filled moments―can actually be the path to living fully authentically and soulfully.