Get a Better Boat: Trustworthy teachings for difficult times

Life is a sea that never stays the same. There are calm waters and turning tides, sunny days and sudden storms. We can't control the sea. But we can learn to navigate it.

Each of us is a little boat.

When storms hit, we may lose our bearings. Some blame the weather, others simply drift and hope for the best. But we can learn to hold steady at the helm.

The Pathwork Guide teaches that nothing in our lives is arbitrary. Our outer life reflects what is happening within us. When we learn to recognize the connections between our inner distortions and the storms we encounter, we gain something precious: the ability to change our course.

The doorway is self-responsibility. What inside us have we not yet seen? How do we block what we want? And what would it feel like to live in greater harmony with our true self?

Jill Loree began working deeply with the Pathwork teachings in 1997. In 2014, she began working full time to make them easier to access. In Get a Better Boat, she distills these timeless and deeply trustworthy teachings into 33 spiritual essays for navigating difficult times.

The sea will keep changing. The storms will keep coming. A new era is arriving.

Is your little boat ready?

Contents
1 Jewels in the heart
2 A simple test for life
3 The Real Self vs the True Self
4 Finding the light switch: My husband, the ego and imposters
5 From believing to knowing: The trip of a lifetime
6 Taking the more mystical way home
7 Two Martin Luthers, two kinds of faith
8 It's time to grow up: Maturing through stages
9 After isolation: Approaching the Great Transition
10 Paying attention: The life-changing process of waking up
11 Living on the good side of life

12 How inner obstacles let in dark forces
13 Closing the gaps in our awareness
14 What's hiding beneath our stories?
15 Suffering? It's time to search for images
16 Four hard lessons about immaturity and images
17 Why did God make war?
18 It's a jungle in there: Hacking our way around a spiritual path
19 What's behind all the resistance?
20 Feeling lost? Here's how to find yourself
21 Healing from every angle, in body, mind and spirit
22 The tricky thing about self-responsibility

23 How to swim with life, by evolving and resolving our splits
24 Playing the long game
25 The key to a happy marriage? Honesty
26 The story of our lives: Why look within?
27 How to heal a country
28 Learn to fight the right way, for the right thing
29 The truer way to freedom
30 Humor can heal, but sometimes it just hurts
31 Making life better by changing how we create
31a Creation springs from swirling starting points
31b Understanding time and the "now point"
31c The way out of misery
32 Untangling the twisted threads of friction
33 So, how's your little boat doing?