World Champion’s Bestselling Guide on Soul Surfing enthralls readers with real life stories that encourage virtue

A Surfing Guide to the Soul by Bear Woznick. Sophia Institute Press (Manchester, NH, 2022). 176 pp., $18.95. 

Emptiness. Overwork. Financial worries. Physical suffering. Does your life ever feel like a storm surge?

In this bestselling reprint of A Surfing Guide to the Soul, Bear Woznick takes readers on adventures from the Waimea “mountain waves” in Hawaii to “the Wedge” of Newport Beach, California. Woznick, a two-time world-champion tandem surfer and EWTN host, also authored Deep Adventure from Sophia Press.

Readers will travel with Woznick through the winter and summer swells of his life. They will discover how to go into the deep, loving embrace of the ocean to find communion and intimacy with God.

Inspired by Scripture and the saints, Woznick reflects on searching for God and developing a personal relationship with Him. An avid and daring surfer, Woznick compares the spiritual life to his experiences: “Wave after timeless wave breaking on the shore drew me into a contemplation of God’s eternity.”

Woznick teaches readers how to be bold and decisive, “all in” pursuing God, even when there’s no surf in sight. They will learn the true meaning of holiness, to let go, rest in God, and allow Him to do the work.

By attuning ones soul to God, he relates, you surrender yourself to the Creator, as a surfer abandons himself to an epic wave. In entering the ocean’s solitude we prepare to contemplate God face-to-face.

Taking up your cross and following Him, explains Woznick, is life-giving and cultivates virtue. When we detach from the false comforts of the world, we are free, like a surfer leaving the shore.

Woznick challenges readers to take a leap of faith and simplify their lives. He testifies that, when we humble ourselves before the awesome power of God, He will raise us up over the waves.

Movie producer and author Steve Ray affirmed, “Men need examples — heroic role models they can look up to. Unhappily, heroes are rare today. That’s where Bear comes in. He is a manly man who has proved his moral courage and manly example in many ways, in the world of sports, everyday life, and ideas.”

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