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Positive Solitude

Being happy alone is a life skill that is all too often overlooked in our rush to relationships. It is a skill called "positive solitude." And it can be learned...During the Covid crisis, it is a skill that can contribute to managing stress and nurturing contentment. 

Whether you are younger or older, this book can help you to find the peace and serenity you need to face the challenges of living alone. It has helped thousands of readers to understand and appreciate solitude, and to escape loneliness. Please see the most recent reader reviews on Amazon. (Click on the book.)

Readers write:

"I have read many fine books on solitude, meditation and living alone. Your POSITIVE SOLITUDE is by far the best and most thorough work I have read...I am enchanted with your book."

"Your book is an inspiration and has prompted me to write the first letter I have ever written to an author."

"I have used POSITIVE SOLITUDE intensively as a workbook...I am able to raise myself from the floor of useless brooding to a lively, upright, productive position."

"Your book has truly changed my life...since you so beautifully put into words what I've felt deep, down inside, I feel vindicated, fortified and yes, even smug."

Reviewer Rae Francoeur notes: "POSITIVE SOLITUDE will be viewed as a self-help book because of its secondary title, but it is much more. In the four years she took to write the book, Andre researched all sorts of literature, scholarly and literary. Thus the reading is educational and inspirational, the many enlightening references conveniently footnoted at the end of each chapter...Andre will surround you with good company: Thoreau, May Sarton, Paul C. Horton, Alice Koller, William James, Herman Hesse, Akira Kurosawa, Clark Moustakas, Victor Frankl. You have learned to be lonely, write Andre, now it's time to learn to be alone."