Stephanie Dowrick
Dr Stephanie Dowrick is the author of more than 20 books including Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another. Her most recent work includes Your name is not Anxious: A very personal guide to putting anxiety in its place; also, co-written with Mark S Burrows, You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke. A former publisher, and founder of The Women’s Press in London, Stephanie has been a contributor to P&I for more than a decade. She is the guest speaker on 24 April 2025 at the fundraising dinner for MAPW (Medical Association for Prevention of War) to be held in Canberra https://www.mapw.org.au/dr-stephanie-dowrick/. Stephanie can be reached via social media or stephaniedowrick.com.
Stephanie's recent articles
14 February 2018
Issues of Integrity, Not Sex
The story of a middle-aged husband and father talking up the failure of his marriage to justify his relationship with a much younger and previously childless woman is too clichd to have much drama. The effect of this on the abandoned wife and, in this case, four daughters, would of course make for a story of genuine poignancy. We may even wonder what caused the younger woman to assume a future with a man who is not only married but an avowed and vocal upholder of traditional family values, whatever they are. (Loyalty, honesty, transparency and kindness could be a...
31 January 2018
STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Weapons of Moral Destruction
A few days ago I drove with a friend from Sydney to Leura in NSWs Blue Mountains. We were heading towards a meditation centre and on the way shared views about social justice and most especially peace activism. As long-time meditators, we were tossing ideas back and forth about how we can most effectively align political activity sometimes driven by outrage - with personal peace of mind.