Description

What if you had an internal compass that could provide direction at every turning point in your life?

The Saint and the Drunk – A Guide to Making the Big Decisions in Your Life shows people how to build a practice of intentional decision making.

Everyone has access to reconnect to their authentic calling. But for many that access has been obscured by cultural or familial narratives, trauma or grief. This is a practical book that considers the very real responsibilities most people have. The exercises and writing prompts help to reach that deep knowing within people so that they can build a life that is congruent with their values while moving closer to their dreams.
The author shares her deeply moving personal journey that successfully affirms that the discernment process outlined in this book can help anyone, no matter their circumstance, to make even the most difficult decisions in their lives.
The Saint and the Drunk – A Guide to Making the Big Decisions In Your Life shows how to use ancient spiritual tools with a modern, spiritual-but-not-religious approach to:

  • make major life decisions with intention and clarity
  • use exercises and writing prompts to help identify cultural and familial narratives that can support or limit
  • clarify values and dreams
  • demonstrate how to honor resistance
  • deal with the impact of grief and trauma on decision making

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Author:

Stephanie is a writer and storyteller whose non-fiction opinion work has been published in advertising trades as well as publications of women’s religious orders. Her storytelling on The Moth has been featured on NPR and in the best-selling book All These Wonders. She has a newsletter on Substack, a podcast on leadership, and she provides trainings for corporate and faith-based organizations.

Read more about Stephanie Peirolo on her author page.

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Reviews:

“Stephanie Peirolo has been hitting with bits of wisdom for the better part of 40 years. Sometimes casually, sometimes directedly, always to great effect. So, it’s both a blessing and a privilege to finally be able to read some concentrated version of what had been given away earnestly, but freely: a guide to navigating the rocky shoals of the lives we lead with her as a guide in the know. Consider then The Saint and the Drunk, a guidebook for hard times by a Virgil who’s been almost everywhere that matters and is gifted with a desire to get out through the same with a minimum of bad juju. A must read.”
Eugene S. Robinson, A Walk Across Dirty Water & Straight Into Murderer’s Row

“In the accelerated culture we live in today, it can be difficult to know how to decide what we really want out of life. In The Saint and the Drunk, Stephanie Peirolo helps the reader to understand that discernment is a process that can be applied to everything from family to career to our spiritual lives. Warmly written and inviting to many different readers, this book will be a helpful guide for anyone seeking to slow down and listen for inner guidance.”
Kaya Oakes, author of The Defiant Middle, How Women Claim Life’s In-Betweens to Remake the World