Briefly Perfectly Human
Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
Échec de l'ajout au panier.
Échec de l'ajout à la liste d'envies.
Échec de la suppression de la liste d’envies.
Échec du suivi du balado
Ne plus suivre le balado a échoué
0,99 $/mois pendant vos 3 premiers mois
Acheter pour 32,62 $
-
Narrateur(s):
-
Alua Arthur
-
Auteur(s):
-
Alua Arthur
À propos de cet audio
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | New York Times' Staff Favorite Book of the Year | Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula.
""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd trust more to guide me through an understanding of death, and how it informs life."" — Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Mad Honey and The Book of Two Ways
""Briefly Perfectly Human is a beautiful, raw, light-bringing experience. Alua's voice is shimmering, singular, and pulses with humor, vulnerability, insight, and refreshing candor.... Be prepared for it to grab you, hold you tight, and raise the roof on the power of human connection."" — Tembi Locke, author of From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life.
Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet moments, when monitors are beeping and loved ones have stepped out to get some air—or maybe not shown up at all—and her clients become deeply contemplative and want to talk. Aching, unfinished business often emerges. Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments—when regrets, fears, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally said aloud. When this happens, Alua focuses her attention at the pulsing center of her clients’ anguish and creates space for them, and sometimes their loved ones, to find peace.
This has had a profound effect on Alua, who was already no stranger to death’s periphery. Her family fled a murderous coup d’état in Ghana in the 1980s. She has suffered major, debilitating depressions. And her dear friend and brother-in-law died of lymphoma. Advocating for him in his final months is what led Alua to her life’s calling. She knows firsthand the power of bearing witness and telling the truth about life’s painful complexities, because they do not disappear when you look the other way. They wait for you.
Briefly Perfectly Human is a life-changing, soul-gathering debut, by a writer whose empathy, tenderness, and wisdom shimmers on the page. Alua Arthur combines intimate storytelling with a passionate appeal for loving, courageous end-of-life care—what she calls “death embrace.” Hers is a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives, by embracing the fact of our own mortality. “Hold that truth in your mind,” Alua says, “and wondrous things will begin to grow around it.”
©2023 Alua Arthur (P)2023 HarperCollins PublishersVous pourriez aussi aimer...
-
Dream
- The Art and Science of Slumber
- Auteur(s): Scott Carney
- Narrateur(s): Scott Carney
- Durée: 3 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Why do so many of us have trouble falling asleep? Why do our thoughts spin in wild directions after dark? More important: why do we dream? In this groundbreaking new book, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney sets out to discover how the sleeping world reverberates in the waking one. Unlock the power of the immune system at the same time you dig deeply into the source of creativity. Discover the evolutionary process that forges both memory and emotions.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
What an eye opener!
- Écrit par Chariotmaker le 2024-08-08
Auteur(s): Scott Carney
-
Truth Telling
- Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada
- Auteur(s): Michelle Good
- Narrateur(s): Megan Tooley
- Durée: 4 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 14
With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge. From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent information
- Écrit par Deborah E Harcus le 2023-06-15
Auteur(s): Michelle Good
-
Divine Might
- Goddesses in Greek Myth
- Auteur(s): Natalie Haynes
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Haynes
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 16
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
-
Histoire5 out of 5 stars 12
Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Loved it!
- Écrit par Kirsty Phillips le 2024-01-18
Auteur(s): Natalie Haynes
-
Fi
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Alexandra Fuller
- Narrateur(s): Alexandra Fuller
- Durée: 6 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Histoire3 out of 5 stars 2
It’s the middle of the summer before her fiftieth birthday and Alexandra is just barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, chafing and straining against the stresses and strictures of midlife as a mother and ex-wife, and piecing her way through a disastrous relationship with a younger woman that lurches and buckles, but never quite breaks. And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep. What happens next is what Alexandra details in this book.
Auteur(s): Alexandra Fuller
-
Song of the Sparrow
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Tara MacLean
- Narrateur(s): Tara MacLean
- Durée: 10 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Histoire5 out of 5 stars 8
Singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has had an extraordinary musical career. From being discovered singing on a BC ferry to touring with Dido, Tom Cochrane and Lilith Fair, her solo albums and those with the band Shaye have touched legions of fans. But she hasn’t, until now, disclosed the details of how the power of song saved her from a childhood filled with danger.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A MUST read (listen!)
- Écrit par Yougotsarah le 2023-06-27
Auteur(s): Tara MacLean
-
Someone You Know
- An Unforgettable Collection of Canadian True Crime Stories
- Auteur(s): Catherine Fogarty
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer Blom
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Someone You Know is an anthology of twelve unforgettable Canadian true-crime stories by Story Hunter podcast producer, host and writer Catherine Fogarty. Each story reveals the haunting truth and statistical reality that a person is more likely to be murdered by someone they know than by a stranger. And while “stranger danger” is often the stuff of our nightmares and Hollywood horror films, sometimes those who are closest to us are even more dangerous than strangers.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great book with 9 hours of Canadian Crime
- Écrit par Catt M le 2025-06-16
Auteur(s): Catherine Fogarty
-
Dream
- The Art and Science of Slumber
- Auteur(s): Scott Carney
- Narrateur(s): Scott Carney
- Durée: 3 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Why do so many of us have trouble falling asleep? Why do our thoughts spin in wild directions after dark? More important: why do we dream? In this groundbreaking new book, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney sets out to discover how the sleeping world reverberates in the waking one. Unlock the power of the immune system at the same time you dig deeply into the source of creativity. Discover the evolutionary process that forges both memory and emotions.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
What an eye opener!
- Écrit par Chariotmaker le 2024-08-08
Auteur(s): Scott Carney
-
Truth Telling
- Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada
- Auteur(s): Michelle Good
- Narrateur(s): Megan Tooley
- Durée: 4 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 14
With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge. From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent information
- Écrit par Deborah E Harcus le 2023-06-15
Auteur(s): Michelle Good
-
Divine Might
- Goddesses in Greek Myth
- Auteur(s): Natalie Haynes
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Haynes
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 16
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
-
Histoire5 out of 5 stars 12
Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Loved it!
- Écrit par Kirsty Phillips le 2024-01-18
Auteur(s): Natalie Haynes
-
Fi
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Alexandra Fuller
- Narrateur(s): Alexandra Fuller
- Durée: 6 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Histoire3 out of 5 stars 2
It’s the middle of the summer before her fiftieth birthday and Alexandra is just barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, chafing and straining against the stresses and strictures of midlife as a mother and ex-wife, and piecing her way through a disastrous relationship with a younger woman that lurches and buckles, but never quite breaks. And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep. What happens next is what Alexandra details in this book.
Auteur(s): Alexandra Fuller
-
Song of the Sparrow
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Tara MacLean
- Narrateur(s): Tara MacLean
- Durée: 10 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Histoire5 out of 5 stars 8
Singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has had an extraordinary musical career. From being discovered singing on a BC ferry to touring with Dido, Tom Cochrane and Lilith Fair, her solo albums and those with the band Shaye have touched legions of fans. But she hasn’t, until now, disclosed the details of how the power of song saved her from a childhood filled with danger.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A MUST read (listen!)
- Écrit par Yougotsarah le 2023-06-27
Auteur(s): Tara MacLean
-
Someone You Know
- An Unforgettable Collection of Canadian True Crime Stories
- Auteur(s): Catherine Fogarty
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer Blom
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Someone You Know is an anthology of twelve unforgettable Canadian true-crime stories by Story Hunter podcast producer, host and writer Catherine Fogarty. Each story reveals the haunting truth and statistical reality that a person is more likely to be murdered by someone they know than by a stranger. And while “stranger danger” is often the stuff of our nightmares and Hollywood horror films, sometimes those who are closest to us are even more dangerous than strangers.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great book with 9 hours of Canadian Crime
- Écrit par Catt M le 2025-06-16
Auteur(s): Catherine Fogarty
-
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
- Auteur(s): Julia Alvarez
- Narrateur(s): Alma Cuervo
- Durée: 8 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global3 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 3
-
Histoire3.5 out of 5 stars 3
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Empathetic on every level
- Écrit par Charlene Dokter le 2025-06-11
Auteur(s): Julia Alvarez
-
The Light Eaters
- How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- Auteur(s): Zoë Schlanger
- Narrateur(s): Zoë Schlanger
- Durée: 10 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Histoire4 out of 5 stars 8
The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
so fascinating
- Écrit par Brittany le 2024-07-31
Auteur(s): Zoë Schlanger
-
No-Regret Decisions
- Making Good Choices During Difficult Times
- Auteur(s): Shannon Lee Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Shannon Lee Simmons
- Durée: 7 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Histoire5 out of 5 stars 7
Every one of us will face an unexpected decision crisis in our lives. Whether it’s a life-changing situation—job loss, illness, divorce, death—or a happier event—a new job opportunity, buying a first home, or other important occasion—there are times when you will be forced to make big decisions under great pressure.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
No-Regret Decisions
- Écrit par Robyn le 2023-10-07
Auteur(s): Shannon Lee Simmons
-
The Memory of Lavender and Sage
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrateur(s): Caroline Hewitt
- Durée: 10 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 18
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
-
Histoire4 out of 5 stars 17
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal. Still, she is left a modest remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices before her.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautiful
- Écrit par Sabrina le 2024-09-01
Auteur(s): Aimie K. Runyan
-
Think This, Not That
- 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be
- Auteur(s): Dr. Josh Axe
- Narrateur(s): Josh Axe, Jon Gordon, Donald Miller, Autres
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global2.5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Histoire3 out of 5 stars 4
Unlock your potential by cultivating self-awareness and curating a fulfilling life full of self-improvement, emotional intelligence, and a growth mindset. Leadership expert and entrepreneur Dr. Josh Axe teaches 12 revolutionary mindshift transformations to beat the grind and reach the life you've always wanted. Redefine success and replace the limiting beliefs of yourself with the healthy mental toughness to think this, not that.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Think this not that
- Écrit par Celine FT le 2024-09-24
Auteur(s): Dr. Josh Axe
-
The Mango Tree
- A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
- Auteur(s): Annabelle Tometich
- Narrateur(s): Annabelle Tometich
- Durée: 10 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Histoire5 out of 5 stars 3
When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn’t prepared to hear her mother’s voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger siblings afterwards was easy; all she had to say was, “Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes.” They immediately understood.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
authentic and honest.
- Écrit par anne nonomus le 2024-11-17
Auteur(s): Annabelle Tometich
-
No Worries
- How to Live a Stress Free Financial Life
- Auteur(s): Jared Dillian
- Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
- Durée: 6 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Histoire4 out of 5 stars 2
No Worries shows how anyone can live a stress-free financial life and build wealth for the long term. This is not about millions of tiny decisions that drain the joy from life, like skipping daily coffee to save a few bucks. And it’s not simply about having more money. The secret lies in adopting the right attitude to money and getting a small number of big things right.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Some insights, lots of boasting
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-05-28
Auteur(s): Jared Dillian
-
Permission
- The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create
- Auteur(s): Elissa Altman
- Narrateur(s): Elissa Altman
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
After writing three critically acclaimed memoirs and a decade of teaching memoir workshops at every level, Elissa Altman has helped students face the elephant in every writer’s room: how to craft the stories that are most vital to them despite the voices that have told them not to. Permission is a master course, not only on how to craft memoir, but how to begin and keep going when you’ve been told you can’t, and how to how to give yourself permission to transcend the fear that keeps vital stories from being written.
Auteur(s): Elissa Altman
-
How to Walk into a Room
- The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
- Auteur(s): Emily P. Freeman
- Narrateur(s): Emily P. Freeman
- Durée: 6 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global1.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Histoire2 out of 5 stars 2
What do you do when you start to feel a shift and must decide if it’s time to make a change? When it comes to navigating big decisions about when to stay and go, how can we know for sure when the time is right? Though we enter and exit many rooms over the course of our life—jobs, relationships, communities, life stages—knowing how and when it’s time to leave is a decision that rarely has a clear answer.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Unexpectedly religious
- Écrit par WTL le 2024-10-23
Auteur(s): Emily P. Freeman
-
The Wife You Know
- Auteur(s): Chad Zunker
- Narrateur(s): Thor Knai, Helen Laser
- Durée: 6 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
-
Histoire3.5 out of 5 stars 10
Widower Luke Driskell didn’t expect to fall in love and marry again so quickly. But Ashley and her daughter, Joy, are special—a quality borne out when Ashley rushes into a burning day-care center to save the children. Immediately she’s a social media sensation and hero. Then, just as suddenly, Ashley and Joy disappear into the bitterly cold night. With no trace of their whereabouts, Luke begins a panicked investigation. Alarmingly, he can find no proof that the woman he loves even exists. Left behind: just a hidden stash of fake IDs. Different names. Different cities. Same haunted face.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Would not recommend
- Écrit par Private le 2024-09-11
Auteur(s): Chad Zunker
-
The Book of Doors
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Gareth Brown
- Narrateur(s): Miranda Raison
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 168
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 149
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 149
Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated. She always loved his stories, and now she has nothing to remember him by. Nothing but the last book he was reading. But this is no ordinary book… It is the Book of Doors. Inscribed with enigmatic words and mysterious drawings, it promises Cassie that any door is every door. You just need to know how to open them.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely LOVED it
- Écrit par TiMiMo le 2024-04-23
Auteur(s): Gareth Brown
-
Tripping on Utopia
- Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
- Auteur(s): Benjamin Breen
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
- Durée: 12 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley....
Auteur(s): Benjamin Breen
A beautiful must read for all humans
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
A book everyone needs to read!
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vulnerable strenght
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Generously Given Story
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Humanity of dying brought by Alua
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Exquisite
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Alua’s humanity is so relatable!
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Great book, memorable
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Great reminder to live!!
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Incredible
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.