Standing at the Back Door of Happiness
eBook - ePub

Standing at the Back Door of Happiness

And How I Unlocked It

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Standing at the Back Door of Happiness

And How I Unlocked It

About this book

Popular motivational speaker and entertainer David Roche's latest essay collection explores the beauty found in unusual places with elegant humour and compassion.

David Roche was born with vascular malformation of the face, which he sees as an "incredible gift" that has forced him to look inside for beauty and self-worth. It has also helped him to see the beauty in others, despite their flaws, allowing him to live in a world of beautiful people. With a refreshingly good-natured outlook, Roche muses on disability, activism, religion and family.

Roche tells the personal story of his journey towards finding happiness, which culminated in his receiving the Order of Canada. Germinating in his "seriously Catholic" childhood and teenage years spent studying in a seminary to be a priest, Roche grew up adhering to doctrine, which paved the way for a "fairly seamless transition" into twelve years of devotion to the Democratic Workers Party.

Roche's life came to a turning point when he realized that, although he had been devoted to changing the world, he didn't know his own soul. Eventually freed by the dissolution of the Democratic Workers Party, Roche turned towards a more meaningful way of life, embracing acceptance and love.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. For the Love of Scars
  9. Night and Day
  10. A Nun’s Hug
  11. A Roche Family Christmas
  12. No Bashful Need Apply
  13. Camping with Amy
  14. Standing at the Back Door of Happiness, Part 1
  15. Standing at the Back Door of Happiness, Part 2
  16. Standing at the Back Door of Happiness, Part 3
  17. I Don’t Understand Why I Didn’t Understand
  18. It Was Sin that Saved My Soul: The Overlap of Love and Death
  19. The Angel of Frozen Time
  20. Genius, Player, Elder
  21. Fudge and Forgiveness
  22. How I Spent My Christmas Vacation
  23. Master Storytellers
  24. My Name Is Marie
  25. At the Carnegie Centre
  26. Two Months to the Day
  27. Love at Second Sight
  28. Listen to Your Own Story: Storytelling and the Emergence of the New Self
  29. My Chihuahua, Frank
  30. The Kingdom of Heaven
  31. On Set
  32. Love You to Death and How that Works
  33. Being Listened To
  34. My New Year’s Resolutions
  35. Picasso
  36. About the Author