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- ISBN13: 9781934633311
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
From the beloved leader Dominique Browning, a humorous and moving book about losing a job and winning a life. In November 2007, ex- editor in chief of House & Garden magazine Dominique Browning veteran what thousands have since veteran. She lost her job. Overnight, her driven, purpose-filled days vanished. With her children leaving home and a long relationship ending, the structure of her days disappeared. She fell into a panic of loss but establish humor despite everything, learning a deeper joy than any she had ever known. It was a life she had not sought, but one that offered pleasures and surprises she didn’t know she lacked.
Slow Like is about wearing your nightdress to the farmers’ market, packing up a beloved home and moving to a more rural setting, building time to play the piano and go kayaking, reinventing yourself, and not cutting corners when it comes to like, muffins, or farming. This elegant, graceful—and yet amusing—book inspires us to dance in the kitchen and seize new directions.
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I wanted to like this book but I’m middle through and she’s still just telling tale after tale about her married lover. And most of the tales only seem to illustrate what a limited and frustrating relationship it was. I don’t feel like I’m reading the book the reviewers all praised.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Let me treat you to a few snippets from this sumptuous book.
“an incessant voice urging perfection, order, restraint, and speed in all things: do more, do it better, do it quicker, quicker quicker.”
an 80-yr-ancient French woman, “her arms spread as if to embrace the world. ‘Le Prozac! C’est un Miracle!’”
This book summarizes my life so perfectly, already on p. 2: “I leap back into my frenetic life. Nothing moves quick enough. Everything is fantastic! Everything is insane! Work is driving me crazy? I like my job! My relationships with men go nowhere? So what! I don’t see enough of my friends? Later! There isn’t enough time to do the things everyone else wants me to do? But that’s fine, really!”
Look how effortlessly wise: “So now I’m faced with two possible responses. Either I crack up, or I use this trauma as an opportunity to grow.” Freshly place. And then: “Of course I crack up. I become infantile, in my way. Just enough to learn to turn to friends and question for help.
“Slow living, I have come to know, opens up the prospect of slow like, the most sustaining sort of like I have ever known.” I LOVE IT…
I feel deeply understood and nourished in this book. I lost my job in 2005 and went through a huge drama. But whether or not that scenario has happened to you, there are rich insights for you in this sumptuous book. It’s reasonably exquisite. Browning has a talent for wording things in surprising and sensual ways. One would expect that from a Browning
There is a lot of fruitfulness and faith in life here. A lot of reassurance, comfort, and like, for all that is around us that we accept or struggle to accept.
Last time I was so gripped by a book, it was Eat, Pray, Like. This has a very similar surprising lusciousness and wisdom in seemingly mundane scenarious. I mean, losing a job = inspiration? It takes genius to see things this way and not sound obnoxiously “positive.” As a replacement for, it’s human, faithful and inspiring. Thank you.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I loved this book – the writing, the content and the simple way I identified with the leader. Yes, we have all had a Stroller in our lives whether that makes us better and/or stronger, I’m not sure. All I know is after reading the book I wanted to call, write or email and talk to her about it. The writing makes you feel that she is that accesible.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
A wonderful book….you can feel her initial panic after losing her job, and then relax into the way that she finds herself and a more comfortable life as the panic subsides and she realizes that she is more than a magazine publisher, and life is more than getting a magazine out every month. I loved STROLLER…….not that I would ever want a name so commitment fixated in my life, but rather the humorous way that she shows that you can like a name who is absolutely not excellent for you…….and then go beyond it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Book Review
Slow Like: How I Lost My Job, Place On My Nightdress & Establish Happiness (Hardcover) by Dominique Browning (2010).
Written well, Browning tells the tale of her life after losing her long term job as editor-in-chief of House & Garden. She refers to this time in her life as “Slow Like: How I Lost My Job, Place On My Nightdress & Establish Happiness.”
It is a tale that all of us can identify with as she verbalizes the pain of letting go; at one point her son tells her “…Place the book down.” She answers “That’s permanently been my problem. I just can’t close the book no matter how much it makes me weep. I am under a spell, hoping that all will end well, even when it clearly isn’t going to” (p. 86). Browning goes through a grief process of adage `goodbyes’ letting go of the past, to birth her new life which she does so well-but not lacking pain and suffering within the much needed container of time. She reminds us that “It’s the tale-it’s being in the tale” (p. 86).
It is a `real’ tale of one’s woman journey to herself as she processes her losses and the complications of like and letting go. She learns to identify and let go of ancient behavioral patterns. She also lets go of things-objects and through this process rebuilds a new life; a new self. There has been a `death’ in her life and she is seeking the `resurrection.’ She finds it. In her new life she learns to make room for play (fun and pleasure and surprise) and balance (she learned to make time for life and simplified her life). She stirred from the space of a `human doing’ to a `human being’ and learned to feel her way through as work/job (busyness) wasn’t there to help her avoid her feelings. In a psychotherapist language it might be stated that she did some co-dependency recovery work -she filled up her `toolbox.’
Creativity surfaced through her cooking, farming, art, walking, reading, composition, poetry and writing. She is doing inner work and although her circumstances might be different financially than additional individuals who lose jobs, I reflect the path to self is for all of us reasonably universal. It is this theme for me that stands out in this soul-searching tale as Browning tells us that “I realize how pleased I am, and how lucky. I’m unafraid. I’m taking care of myself” (p. 231).
Slow Like can be a guide for others’ whom are building or have had to make life changes. She sums it up best on p.231 quoting Mary Oliver, “You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotions.”
Thank you for this book, one which I hope will be a support for many.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5