Prescription for Joy
Ruth is a self-professed "glass three-quarters full and overflowing" kind of person — so when it came time to write a book, joy was the only logical theme.
The Prescription for Joy is Ruth's approach to psychotherapy and life, distilled into something you can actually use. Her goal, in her own words: "To help you reawaken your own innate ability to experience joy in the most easily accessible ways — every day of your life."
"Ruth Williams' delightful and delightfully brief book is a welcome antidote to our dis-ease. This is a book to be read, and more importantly, a prescription to be followed." — Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Recovery: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual Practice
"An accessible and practical way to turn stress, anxiety, and sadness into personal empowerment and a renewed zest for living. If you are ready to exchange worry and frustration for contentment and fulfillment, The Prescription for Joy is just what the doctor ordered." — Candy Paull, author of The Art of Abundance
"Ruth Williams clearly knows and lives the truth of joy she shares in these pages — and that knowing jumps off every page. A clear, unpretentious, often playful guide by a very creative writer. I will be recommending this book to clients and students." — Gloria Karpinski, author of Where Two Worlds Touch and Barefoot on Holy Ground
Prescription for Joy
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Return to Mother, Returning Home
When Ruth's mother was dying in a nursing home under hospice care, something unexpected happened — a mystical, long-distance connection that neither distance nor illness could interrupt.
In her signature blend of humor and depth, Ruth shares the intimate journey of that time: the dreams, the signs, the sacred ordinary moments, and what they revealed about love, loss, and the thin line between living and dying. Drawing on her years as a hospice grief counselor and her own front-row seat to her mother's passing, Ruth makes a quietly radical case — that death deserves a place in our everyday conversations, and that grief, met with open eyes, can become one of life's most clarifying teachers.
Rooted in respect for all belief systems, Return to Mother, Returning Home is for anyone navigating loss — or anyone who loves someone they will one day lose.
Which is all of us.
The title, Return to Mother, Returning Home, has multiple levels of meaning. Williams writes with skill, poignancy, and honesty of the last days of her mother’s life. She connects the actual events and stages of her mother’s dying process with observations by the therapist, mystic, and professional grief counselor she is. The book is intimate and provocative, never glossing over the challenging parts of the process and often elevating them with sharp perceptions about the coming and going of souls and their pathways between worlds.
"The newest addition to Ruth's creations is a book about her time with her own mother as she completed her time on this Earth. Few organizations have changed our culture’s perception as dynamically as hospice. In the midst of messages of avoidance and denial, hospice welcomes the dying and teaches the living the values—and methods—of creating sacred havens of transition for those who are leaving the body.
"This is a courageous story of two women, mother and daughter, sharing time and space between here and there, this home and another. It is a book for those who desire to be fully present with one who is leaving the earth body and are willing to reexamine their own perceptions of life, death, and relationships." Gloria Karpinski , author of Where Two Worlds Touch and Barefoot on Holy Ground
Return to Mother
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