Streams of Contentment: Lessons I Learned on My Uncle’s Farm (hardcover)

With more than 200,000 books sold, Robert J Wicks, the bestselling author of Riding the Dragon applies lessons learned as a city boy spending summers on his family’s farm to the complex and hectic reality of contemporary life. For the first time, author , speaker, psychologist and spiritual guide Robert J Wicks opens a window into his personal life, relating stories of the people and places that have shaped his spiritual perspective in youth and early in his professional career. Streams of Contentment takes as its focus Wicks’s experiences as a New York City boy spending summers on is uncle’s farm in the Catskills. He highlights the resonance between life in the country and the insights of spiritual writers on gratefulness and mindfulness, concluding: ‘The crucial calling for me now is to be content with who and where I already am’. With characteristic charm and insight, Wicks offers a simple prescription for finding contentment: have low expectations and high hopes, recognise that a little silence and solitude is no small thing, and discover the surprising power of humility. He also includes thirty brief reflections and simple practices for discovering contentment. In fifteen poignant, sometimes humorous and always instructive lessons, Wicks builds on the insights first developed in Riding the Dragon to demonstrate how contentment is found through simplicity, gratitude and compassion. Robert J Wicks, who received his doctorate in psychology from Hahnemann Medical College, is on the faculty of Loyola University Maryland. Wicks has taught in universities and professional schools of psychology, medicine, social work, nursing and theology. He was responsible for the psychological debriefing of relief workers the Rwandan civil war and also worked with relief teams in Cambodia. Additionally, Wicks delivered presentations at Walter Reed Army Hospital to healthcare professionals involved in caring for Iraqi was veterans with amputations and severe head injuries. he has written more than 40 books, including Riding the Dragon and Crossing the Desert. Click Link here to watch a video of Bob talking about his book.