The Missing Peace
Join Nere on a journey to redefine peace as your primary intention, learning along the way to reorient yourself towards the qualities conducive to enhancing peace: forgiveness, kindness, gratitude, respect, living-in-the-moment, persistence, and enthusiasm.
Nere outlines the common obstacles to peace when we experience inner, outer, or interpersonal conflict in our life. Breathing to calm ourselves, she asks us to examine our assumptions, challenge our conditioning, and replace negative thinking with affirmations that support a happy life.
On this journey, Nere not only encourages us to find our own way to live in peace but invites us all to become instruments of peace by setting intentions and approaching life’s difficulties with compassion and understanding. As humans, we often define success by monetary and material standards. Nere believes the true key to success is the inner peace that allows us to find personal fulfillment, growth, and the ability to use the tools we have to continue to spread peace in our everyday lives and throughout the world.
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Advance Praise for The Missing Peace
“This book is an intimate and inspiring glimpse into one woman’s journey from turbulence to peace, from chaos to calm. A generous offering to any reader wondering how to shift from surviving to thriving.”
—Jan Phillips, author of Still On Fire
“Nere has a contagious enthusiasm for choosing peace as our highest aspiration. She shows us that living a peace-filled life starts with the intention to do so, and with each page we can feel her longing to inspire us to pivot toward peace, no matter what. “It’s a choice,” she says, offering us plenty of tips to get started on our journey. She uses stories from her own long and diverse life, such that we can feel how the journey to peace unfolded for her and can imagine the same for ourselves. She encourages us to investigate our own conditioning and invites us to actively change by orienting our thinking toward qualities that support peace and the use of affirmations to reset our own thinking. Reading her book has changed me. When I find myself struggling, I think of her and remember her echoing words from A Course in Miracles: ‘I could see peace instead of this.’”
—Marijke McCandless, award-winning author of More (written under pen name, Mariah McKenzie) and Write Now Mind and Juicy Practices for Getting Present workshop leader.
“Nere Lartitegui’s The Missing Peace is the kind of book we all need right now. Hopeful and wise, it calls us to be our peaceful selves, with personal stories and helpful takeaways that guide us. Nere encapsulates the wisdom of more than 80 years, revealing how she moved her own life to one of internal peace. Her message speaks to all of us: ‘No matter what you have faced in the world, peace is possible.’”
—Marni Freedman, author, writing coach, and co-founder of the San Diego Writers Festival
“Part family story, part field guide, The Missing Peace shows us, with love and humility, how to access inner peace and return to it when we lose our way. In a time when many of us seek solutions grounded in something other than resentment and fear, this book provides examples and simple tools to guide us toward a sustainable state of inner calm.”
—Lindsey Salatka, chronic peace seeker and author of Fish Heads and Duck Skin
“I sincerely recommend The Missing Peace by Nere Lartitegui. This book is full of stories and lessons to help us live an intentional, peace-centered life using forgiveness, kindness, gratitude, and respect. Nere shows us how to overcome inner, interpersonal, and outer conflicts of our past and present, preserving and enhancing family, friend, and work ties. She encourages us to keep an open heart, set boundaries, use affirmations and pay attention to opportunities in order to live a happy, fulfilling life. This is a book I will keep on my shelf and re-read often.”
—Nancy Mae Johnson, author of Things My Mama Never Told Me: A Funny and Sometimes Serious Guide For Teen Girls and the People Who Love Them