“Touching and honest; we can journey with her as she opens each door of healing and discovery.”—Jack Kornfield, cofounder of Spirit Rock meditation center and author of Path With Heart

“Rosanne Annoni takes us with her on her quest for true nature, navigating childhood wounds, missteps and misadventures, marriage and motherhood, and friendship and grief with honesty, grace, and forgiveness. We can all learn from Annoni as we, too, stumble through our messy lives on our own paths to true nature.”—Ann Hood, New York Times best-selling author of The Knitting Circle

“To want to find out what you are and to somehow bring what you learn to your work, to your mothering, to your friendships, to the way you love and grieve and live out each day . . . This is the path Rosanne has followed and the essence of the stories she shares.”—Sherry Ruth Anderson, author of The Feminine Face of God and The Cultural Creatives

“In Unfolding the Heart, therapist, teacher, and spiritual explorer Rosanne Annoni contemplates her life with the curiosity and compassion of her profession and the candor the genre demands. In the process, she contemplates life’s big questions and gently invites her readers to do the same.”—Anne D. LeClaire, author of Listening Beneath the Noise

“Rosanne Annoni’s beautiful and inspiring memoir is the story of how she fulfilled her calling to live a life devoted to God, but not in the way she imagined. It’s a story about love, loss, forgiveness and making peace with the imprints of one’s history—forging a life lived with an open heart, in the world but not of it.”—Sandra Maitri, author of The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram

“In prose as inviting as a perfect cup of tea, Rosanne Annoni has crafted a spiritual autobiography documenting her lifelong journey in the direction of reconciliation and understanding.  She is exacting, forgiving, and good-humored. Her generous spirit will prove infectious for readers inclined to conduct their own similar moral inventory, as they witness hers, with the same positive results.”—Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Queen of the Court and Uphill Walkers

“As a writer, I can think of nothing more challenging than putting into words one’s complex and sometimes ambiguous spiritual path. Yet Rosanne Annoni has done just that, with great beauty, insight, and compassion. Unfolding the Heart is a welcome and necessary memoir for our turbulent times.”—Ken Harvey, author of The Book of Casey Adair

“An intimate, beautifully observed journey into solitude and spiritual awakening—and the bravery of staying present.”—Martha McPhee, professor of English at Hofstra University and author of Gorgeous Lie

“As a writer, I can think of nothing more challenging than putting into words one’s complex and sometimes ambiguous spiritual path. Yet Rosanne Annoni has done just that with great beauty, insight and compassion. Unfolding the Heart is a welcome and necessary memoir for our turbulent times.”—Ken Harvey, author of The Book of Casey Adair
 
“This book’s intimacy and honesty took me by surprise, as I marveled at Rosanne’s journey, my journey, and the human journey. I came away reassured and inspired that living a full life in the world does not have to be separated from a spiritual life.”—John Davis, author of The Diamond Approach: An Introduction to the Teachings of A.H. Almaas