Author Rose Stanley lives on the Hibiscus Coast in Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand.
A favourite pastime for Rose is scouring op-shops for cheerful teapots and mugs. Rose is also committed to discovering the perfect scone – cheese or date, she isn’t fussy.
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Rose has written a non-fiction book for women and five children’s picture books on emotional literacy and problem-solving. She loves to unpack big ideas in creative and quirky ways.
Rose also co-facilitates creative retreats for small groups of women at the rambling and beautiful Peacemakers lodge in Parakai, Helensville. Find out about the retreats at Fledgling and Peacemakers.
Rose's non-fiction for women
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Sacred and Sane
Six pillars for keeping your faith without losing your mind
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You don’t have to choose between your faith and your sanity – it’s about discovering you can have both.
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Reader comment from Amanda Pilbrow, Spiritual Director, Enneagram Practitioner, Ally, and person of faith ~ "Sacred and Sane has highlighted and enabled me personally to identify areas in my story that still require care, attention, and encouragement. Rose Stanley offers readers, especially women of faith within current Church cultures, support and the language so desperately needed towards recognizing, perhaps for the first time, a person’s agency and autonomy.
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"With six well-considered pillars, Rose unpacks lived realities, personal and collected, around harm, grief, mental health, guilt, spoken and unspoken expectations, disappointment, etc., due to ‘care’ provided by often well-meaning but unfortunately ill-informed people - with automated authority within Church or community settings."​
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Rose's children's books
Five books ​to help children navigate their feelings, feel included and seek support when they need it.
