Sacred Silly

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Somewhere along the way you got really good at being an adult - but forgot how to be alive.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sacred Silly is here to help you remember.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With lyrical storytelling grounded research and irreverent humor disenchanted pastor turned brand strategist John Emery invites readers to reimagine play as an essential transformative practice. Not childish. Not naive. But ancient brave and deeply human.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Drawing from neuroscience psychology global traditions and first-hand experience Emery explores how play rewires our brains rebuilds relationships and restores what so many of us have lost-our sense of wonder delight and vitality.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inside you'll find:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The evolutionary and spiritual roots of play</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How play helps us lead love grieve parent and heal</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How playful intimacy builds deeper more erotic connection</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Practical ways to invite whimsy into your everyday life</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stories that will make you laugh cry and remember yourself</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Real-life rituals tools and practices to help design a more joyful resilient life</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether you're burned out or just longing for something more </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sacred Silly</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a gentle rebellion against the weary world's expectations-an invitation to live more vibrantly love more openly and play like your soul depends on it.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(Because it just might.)</strong></p>