Cristina Smith Boeken

Emphasizing the transformative effects of positive play, this book explores how engaging in playful activities can enhance both mental and physical well-being. It provides insights and practical strategies for incorporating play into daily life, fostering a sense of joy and connection. Readers will discover the benefits of play in reducing stress, improving relationships, and boosting creativity, ultimately leading to a healthier, happier lifestyle.

Are You Ready to Dine and Party Like it's the 1920s? Step into the Jazz Age world of The Great Gatsby.

Explore ways to craft a joyful and inclusive holiday season in December for your family. This book offers creative ideas and meaningful activities that promote togetherness and celebrate diversity, ensuring that your holiday experience is both fun and memorable.

Exploring the transformative effects of positive play, this book emphasizes its role in enhancing both health and happiness. It offers practical strategies and insights to incorporate playful activities into daily life, highlighting how such engagement can improve mental well-being and foster social connections. Readers will discover the benefits of play as a powerful tool for stress relief and personal growth, encouraging a more joyful and fulfilling lifestyle.

Acclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith sets out to radically reframe our idea of 'pilgrimage' in Britain by retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journeys in the depths of Ice Age to new pilgrimages of the 21st century. He embarks on an epic adventure across sacred British landscapes - climbing into remote sea caves, sleeping inside Neolithic tombs, scaling forgotten holy mountains and once marooning himself at sea. Following holy roads to churches, cathedrals and standing stones, this evocative and enlightening travelogue explores places prehistoric, pagan and Christian, but also reveals how football stadiums and music festivals have become contemporary places of pilgrimage. The routes walked are often ancient, the pilgrims he meets are always modern. But underpinning the book is a timeless truth: that making journeys has always been a way of making meaning. So often, Oliver finds, "the unravelling of a path goes in tandem with the unravelling of the soul."