Mind blown! It’s an amazing book! I couldn’t stop and so I just read through the whole thing while our power was out all last weekend. I’ll go back through it again now - this time watching the online course - but this book is so much what hundreds of other self-help books promise yet fail to deliver.
That it isn’t just a vapid self help book about clearing my own chakras or manifesting a big red bicycle, but how to take on a bigger more holistic view of life and my part i it. I am being sarcastic here and I am not.
So many books and authors I have read over the last 30 years, I have come to realize, the last few years, only helped me become more distracted, more self-focused and more able to ignore larger and larger chunks of cognitive dissonance in the world and in myself, and in teaching me ways to mollify the symptoms.
Most self help books promise but don’t deliver - I was a connoisseur for decades - making more people believe “it’s all about me - everybody else is just here for my amusement” which is my summary of all the New Age self-help books about creating your own reality I've read since the 1970s and more recent Prosperity Gospel proponents.
Seriously, this book gets to the meat of the matter when most popular self help books I have read in the past 30 years only give exercises that helped me be even more dissociated from my true life. Distracted from the real issues, and trained to further be unable to place boundaries. And in all of that, never directly looking at or challenging the societal systems we were all swimming in.
This book gets me to dive right in and face what’s real, and do things that are useful and truly helpful at understanding why I’m sad or fearful. It’s really stunningly good and presents these core issues lightly and in a conversational manner that I have found useful in getting an idea to burble in my head and it starts to work through the defense mechanisms I self learned or were passed down through family.
I love anyone or anything that quotes Carl Sagan! My fav!
Particularly germane to the election today and our current USA political discourse - I LOVED the discussion on Pg 78 about not vilifying the other side and better to not think conservative vs liberal- all are trying to make a better life “we can disagree without dehumanizing”
I am shocked at all the threads the author was able to tie into this one book. So much wisdom and so much good here. It’s really good.
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“An excellent read for people of the Christian faith who seek effective strategies for self-love in order to heal from past emotional, mental, and physical trauma.
It is, in equal measure, a spiritual guide, self-help book, and memoir that emphasizes the importance of reconciling our inner lives with intentions to create communities that advocate for and uphold justice.” –Seattle Book Review
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang is an educator in the Pacific Northwest, an alumnus of Richard Rohr’s Living School for Action and Contemplation, and author of Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life. Along with writing regularly, he facilitates workshops helping people to navigate their inner lives and explore their sense of identity and spirituality.
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- his own embodied practices,
- contemplative spirituality,
- somatic shadow work,
- and parts work.
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Mind blown! Really, I am shocked out how good it is!
Mind blown! It’s an amazing book! I couldn’t stop and so I just read through the whole thing while our power was out all last weekend. I’ll go back through it again now - this time watching the online course - but this book is so much what hundreds of other self-help books promise yet fail to deliver.That it isn’t just a vapid self help book about clearing my own chakras or manifesting a big red bicycle, but how to take on a bigger more holistic view of life and my part i it. I am being sarcastic here and I am not.So many books and authors I have read over the last 30 years, I have come to realize, the last few years, only helped me become more distracted, more self-focused and more able to ignore larger and larger chunks of cognitive dissonance in the world and in myself, and in teaching me ways to mollify the symptoms.Most self help books promise but don’t deliver - I was a connoisseur for decades - making more people believe “it’s all about me - everybody else is just here for my amusement” which is my summary of all the New Age self-help books about creating your own reality I've read since the 1970s and more recent Prosperity Gospel proponents.Seriously, this book gets to the meat of the matter when most popular self help books I have read in the past 30 years only give exercises that helped me be even more dissociated from my true life. Distracted from the real issues, and trained to further be unable to place boundaries. And in all of that, never directly looking at or challenging the societal systems we were all swimming in.This book gets me to dive right in and face what’s real, and do things that are useful and truly helpful at understanding why I’m sad or fearful. It’s really stunningly good and presents these core issues lightly and in a conversational manner that I have found useful in getting an idea to burble in my head and it starts to work through the defense mechanisms I self learned or were passed down through family.I love anyone or anything that quotes Carl Sagan! My fav!Particularly germane to the election today and our current USA political discourse - I LOVED the discussion on Pg 78 about not vilifying the other side and better to not think conservative vs liberal- all are trying to make a better life “we can disagree without dehumanizing”I am shocked at all the threads the author was able to tie into this one book. So much wisdom and so much good here. It’s really good.
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Mind blown! It’s an amazing book! I couldn’t stop and so I just read through the whole thing while our power was out all last weekend. I’ll go back through it again now - this time watching the online course - but this book is so much what hundreds of other self-help books promise yet fail to deliver.
Mind blown! Really, I am shocked out how good it is!
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2022
That it isn’t just a vapid self help book about clearing my own chakras or manifesting a big red bicycle, but how to take on a bigger more holistic view of life and my part i it. I am being sarcastic here and I am not.
So many books and authors I have read over the last 30 years, I have come to realize, the last few years, only helped me become more distracted, more self-focused and more able to ignore larger and larger chunks of cognitive dissonance in the world and in myself, and in teaching me ways to mollify the symptoms.
Most self help books promise but don’t deliver - I was a connoisseur for decades - making more people believe “it’s all about me - everybody else is just here for my amusement” which is my summary of all the New Age self-help books about creating your own reality I've read since the 1970s and more recent Prosperity Gospel proponents.
Seriously, this book gets to the meat of the matter when most popular self help books I have read in the past 30 years only give exercises that helped me be even more dissociated from my true life. Distracted from the real issues, and trained to further be unable to place boundaries. And in all of that, never directly looking at or challenging the societal systems we were all swimming in.
This book gets me to dive right in and face what’s real, and do things that are useful and truly helpful at understanding why I’m sad or fearful. It’s really stunningly good and presents these core issues lightly and in a conversational manner that I have found useful in getting an idea to burble in my head and it starts to work through the defense mechanisms I self learned or were passed down through family.
I love anyone or anything that quotes Carl Sagan! My fav!
Particularly germane to the election today and our current USA political discourse - I LOVED the discussion on Pg 78 about not vilifying the other side and better to not think conservative vs liberal- all are trying to make a better life “we can disagree without dehumanizing”
I am shocked at all the threads the author was able to tie into this one book. So much wisdom and so much good here. It’s really good.
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