Janet Archer will visit the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 11 a.m. to discuss, read stories from and sign her newest book, “An Invitation to Pause: again: musings from a mindfulness coach about life and dementia”.
In this new collection of 34 uplifting, funny and heart-wrenching stories, Archer reminds readers of our common humanity as we travel this path of life together and how fleetingly precious our days on this planet earth are.
In 2012, Archer retired from a 28-year career as an elementary school teacher; 20 of those years being in the ConVal School District. It was then, at age 62, that she began to explore and document her immediate world through the eyes of her training as a life coach and a yoga and mindfulness teacher. Along the way, her mother got dementia and Archer started sprinkling her writing with musings about living with a parent who has dementia; taking her readers to a place of compassion and love for both the adult child and the parent who are both involved in this new world called “living with dementia.”
Her new book, “An Invitation to Pause…again” is full of insightful stories that are both personal and universal. Archer’s writing about her life, with her authentic and honest voice, seems to have a direct link to the readers heart and soul while allowing the reader to reflect on their own life from a place of compassion, humor and gratitude.
Archer teaches Yoga at the Bond Wellness Center and Bodyworks at Depot Square. She also teaches chair yoga at Rivermead and Scott Farrar. She has three Mindfulness Meditation Class Series a year that are held at Bodyworks at Depot Square. When she is not teaching locally, she is a coach and a coach instructor for The Life Coach School where works with people from all over the world.
She lives in Antrim with her husband, where she has resided for the past 26 years. This is Archer’s second appearance at the Toadstool, as she previously introduced her first book, “An Invitation to Pause” back in 2012.
This event is free and open to the public.For more information, call the Toadstool at 924-3543.