Book Description
In one of the most anticipated books of the year, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, Bob Woodruff, share their never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survival following the tragedy that transformed their lives and gripped a nation.
In January 2006, the Woodruffs seemed to have it all–a happy marriage and four beautiful children. Lee was a public relations executive and Bob had just been named co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight. Then, while Bob was embedded with the military in Iraq, an improvised explosive device went off near the tank he was riding in. He and his cameraman, Doug Vogt, were hit, and Bob suffered a traumatic brain injury that nearly killed him.
In an Instant is the frank and compelling account of how Bob and Lee’s lives came together, were blown apart, and then were miraculously put together again–and how they persevered, with grit but also with humor, through intense trauma and fear. Here are Lee’s heartfelt memories of their courtship, their travels as Bob left a law practice behind and pursued his news career and Lee her freelance business, the glorious births of her children and the challenges of motherhood.
Bob in turn recalls the moment he caught the journalism “bug” while covering Tiananmen Square for CBS News, his love of overseas assignments and his guilt about long separations from his family, and his pride at attaining the brass ring of television news–being chosen to fill the seat of the late Peter Jennings.
And, for the first time, the Woodruffs reveal the agonizing details of Bob’s terrible injuries and his remarkable recovery. We learn that Bob’s return home was not an end to the journey but the first step into a future they have learned not to fear but to be grateful for.
In an Instant is much more than the dual memoir of love and courage. It is an important, wise, and inspiring guide to coping with tragedy–and an extraordinary drama of marriage, family, war, and nation.
A percentage of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Bob Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury.
Customer Reviews:
IN AN INSTANT.......2007-10-05
TOTALLY ENJOYED THE CD OF THIS BOOK. A HEARTFELT STORY OF LOVE, PAIN AND RECOVERY.
Up from the trenches.......2007-09-29
This is a story of remarkable courage and love. Medicine and therapy have come a long way, but the personal strength of one person doing the hard work, and another staying by their side, is (I believe) what brings people back to a life worth living after so tremendous a trajedy. Other books about brain trauma: The Shiloh Renewal and I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury
One of the best books I've ever read!.......2007-09-26
What a wonderful & informative book. I really enjoyed all of the background information. It was a very touching love story. Having gone through 3 brain surgeries myself and my daughter's brain surgery also, gave me a fraction of knowledge on the recovering brain, but the book certainly gives an abundance of information. I've always thought Bob was absolutely fantastic, but I really enjoyed Lee's side of the story. Bravo and Good bless you both Bob & Lee!!!
Interesting book.......2007-09-09
Interesting book - I read it because I was curious what had happened to Bob Woodruff after his injury, because the of the lack of information regarding his condition. It is interesting to me that insiders in the media can control what information gets out about them personally; however others are not so fortunate - their names, faces and not-so-flattering images are splashed across news screens every day.
The book was interesting, but I felt that Lee Woodruff ends up protraying herself as a selfish wife who is annoyed first at her husband's career and then annoyed at the inconvenience his injury caused their family. She describes herself several times as a "single parent" because Bob travelled so much. As a real-life single parent, this completely offended me. A single parent not only cares for their children alone, they also support them alone. A single parent is not a wife of a guy with a six-figure salary who happens to work a lot. If Lee had left these comments out, the book would have been much more palatable.
In An Instant.......2007-08-23
This book was excellent. I thoughthly enjoyed it. My sister is not reading it.
Book Description
Living Time is at once a personal odyssey, an intimate doctor-patient communication, and a prescriptive guide for patients and their families. Writing with wit and humility, Dr. Bernadine Healy shares the hard-won insights that transformed her own struggle with a deadly cancer more than seven years ago, affirming her identity as patient and doctor with the many who share this journey.
Together with more than ten million survivors in the United States alone, Dr. Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health, is a close witness to the medical advances that have brought us to a turning point in the war on cancer. This quiet revolution is curing a growing number of cancers and transforming many others from a death sentence to a chronic illness, one that calls for vigilance but not despair.
Beginning with her own compelling story, Dr. Healy interweaves it with one of the most lucid narratives ever written of what cancer is, how it works in our bodies, and how we can defeat it. She explains how genetic research and other new approaches are radically altering diagnosis and treatment, and she offers precise and empowering ways for patients and their families to access the information and support they need to secure the best in modern cancer care. She also underlines the urgency of accelerating the pace of research that could map out and destroy cancer in the twenty-first century.
Dr. Healy is forthright about the rigors of treatment and the toll cancer still takes, but readers will come away from her book with the information, resources, and heartfelt encouragement they need to look forward to a future with hope.
Customer Reviews:
A must for brain cancer patients/families.......2007-07-23
The first chapter of this book was mesmerizing. Could it mirror my family's crisis any more? It was very kind of Dr. Healy to share her experience. I now know that my family isn't the only one blindsided by an oligodendroglioma. There was a shift in the book, however, from personal to technical. It discusses how cancer happens on the cellular level. It's good information, but sometimes it read like a medical text. There is a lot of imformation on the types of research being done and the hope that all patients should have. It was general enough for anyone dealing with cancer, but particularly beneficial for those with brain cancer. She includes a wonderful list of resources for cancer patients. I also appreciated that even as a doctor, she encouraged cancer patients to make there own informed decisions about their health care.
living time.......2007-07-03
An excellent book, loaded with facts, for anyone suffering from cancer, heart disease or other medical conditions.
Victor J. Albertazzi, MD
i found it well witten and informative........2007-05-17
well written and ienjoyed it
Book Description
The Presence Process is not about changing who or what we are. This is impossible. Instead, it is about releasing our attachment to our manufactured identity so that we may gently return to an awareness of our authentic Presence. It is about moving from pretence to Presence. It is about consciously connecting with that aspect of our Being that always remains constant. It is about honoring that aspect of our Being that is always present. It is not about becoming something or somebody else. It is about remembering and experiencing who and what we really are and have always been.
The Presence Process is not about changing the nature of what the stars have marked on our forehead, hands, and feet. It is about waking into the fullest potential of each moment that is already destined. It is about responding to our life as it is unfolding right now and not reacting to it as if something else was supposed to be happening. The Presence Process intends to reveal to us that our mistaken desire to change what is happening to us in any given moment is usually born out of an inability to show up and fully enjoy the wonder of our life experience as it is right now.
The Presence Process awakens within us the awareness that it is in the nature of our interaction with what is happening to us right now that we sow the seeds for what is to come beyond the borders of this life experience. It assists us to see that the quality of the seeds that we sow in any given moment is very different depending on whether we choose to react or to respond to our experiences. Reacting to our experience means that we are making our decisions based on what we think happened to us yesterday and what we think may happen to us tomorrow. We are only responding to our experience when we make choices based on what is happening to us right here, right now. It is only possible to respond to our experiences when we unlearn the behaviors and belief systems that lead us into reaction. This "unlearning" is what The Presence Process assists us to accomplish.
There are no failures in The Presence Process, as it is an individual journey driven by commitment, curiosity, and intention. It cannot be experienced for someone else or because of someone else. Activating present moment awareness is an individual responsibility. It is therefore an experience that is by nature immune to comparison or judgment.
The Presence Process is not an end to anything; it is the continuation of a lifelong journey that we have already been making into the heart of our own present moment awareness.
Customer Reviews:
Michael Brown's manual for hope .......2007-10-17
In the Presence Process Michael Brown offers a proven, fail-safe way for anyone to heal the heart, mind and body. His compassionate wisdom is easy to accept and easy to trust.
Gentle, effective guide for cultivating emotional maturity and peace of mind.......2007-10-15
I love The Presence Process. I stumbled onto the book in my local bookstore, Chapter One, in Ketchum, Idaho, thumbed through it, and bought it immediately. Michael leads his readers through a 10-week process that deconstructs emotional reactivity and shows us how to transform reactivity to considered response. The awareness, or presence, that Michael has helped me develop has genuinely improved the quality of my life.
Life changing.......2007-09-25
This book is a must for people tired of suffering and willing to embrace the joy that is the birthright of all of us.
This book is excellent.......2007-09-20
This book is excellent. Everyone should buy this book and use it. Ever wonder why the same things seem to keep happening over and over? This book will explain that, as well as provide useful tips to help you understand your current life experience.
The Presence Process.......2007-08-31
The Presence Process is an enlightening spiritual process. Wonderfully written with wisdom and insight, the process allows one to grow from the inside out, combining mindfulness and personal awareness. I recommend this book to anyone on a serious path of personal, spiritual growth.
Book Description
Like Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying, Susan Anderson's book clearly defines the five phases of a different kind of grieving--grieving over a lost relationship. An experienced professional who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than two decades, Susan Anderson gives this subject the serious attention it deserves. The Journey From Abandonment to Healing is designed to help all victims of emotional breakups--whether they are suffering from a recent loss, or a lingering wound from the past; whether they are caught up in patterns that sabotage their own relationships, or they're in a relationship where they no longer feel loved. From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery.
"If there can be a pill to cure the heartbreak of rejection, this book may be it."-- Rabbi Harold Kushner, bestselling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
In the tradition of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's On Death and Dying--but dealing with the grief over the loss of a relationship
Helps readers work through the five universal phases of abandonment: shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, lifting
Includes hands-on exercises for managing pain and rediscovering the capacity for love
Customer Reviews:
This author gets it!.......2007-10-18
I read this book and felt solace in what I was feeling. This author gets how breakups/divorce are different than the death of a loved one. I highly recommend this book.
A book to help you on your path to healthy relationships with lover, family, and friends.......2007-10-09
I am a counselor who has recommended this book to countless numbers of women. If you will actually read the book and work the excercises at the end of each chapter, you will be 80% on your way to an emotionally healhty life. It's time to start figuring out why you keep having unhealthy, unhappy relationships, and change it for the better! This book will do just that for you.
Cheryl Dusty D.Div.
Finally!.......2007-08-14
Finally a book that helps you understand what you are going thru and will ease your pain. I highly, highly recommend it. The best and possibly the only book on abandonment recovery I have found. If it's the only book you read on the subject it will be worth it.
Learning more each day.......2007-06-05
Very informative book on such a personal topic... I learned about ME and why I have the feelings I do on some days and react to certain situations... Can get "heavy" at times, but if healing is the end result, and total honesty is used, worth the "weight" to get the end result.. Thank you for such a new look at this topic.. Anyone suffering from a range of problems such as addictions, co dependency, alcoholism, and fears might consider this the start to their recovery... as I learned abandoment fears or the actual act ( either physical, mental, emotional) is at the root of so many of the disorders today.... Help yourself heal and help the children of those so hurt to keep healthy... Was worth it to me..
A sensitive and thought provoking book of healing and self-development.......2007-05-30
I bought this book based on a name-drop by Ken Wilber on one of his audio CDs for the Kosmic Consciousness series. Part of my job involves dealing with the bereaved, so I am aware of current sociological thought regarding the bereavement cycle of emotional release and mental readjustment, which she terms 'lifting'. What fascinated me about Anderson's approach, was a long overdue reorientation of the importance of abandonment as a driving factor in certain forms of mental illness, that has very limited cultural outlets (as opposed to bereavement). She introduces a similar cycle of emotional healing that is tailored to abandonment, and offers a variety of inspiring ways to uncover underlying pyschologies of narcissistic injury and regression. The book is easy to read, and nourishing enough to absorb more than once!! Truly, a golden nugget - cannot recommend highly enough.
Book Description
This is a book about Freedom
All of us sense that deep inside lies huge potential. We long to experience it, yet something holds us back. We long to set ourselves free, but we don't know how. In this book, you finally learn how.
When Brandon Bays was diagnosed with a basketball-sized tumor in her uterus, she was catapulted into an extraordinary, soul searching journey. Determined to heal naturally, she took no drugs, underwent no surgery; but six and-a-half weeks later she was declared tumor-free. Going beyond current mind-body wisdom, she discovered a powerful means to get direct access to the soul--the unconditional love, the boundless peace, the living presence within us--and pioneered a revolutionary paradigm for healing. Tens of thousands worldwide have since used The Journey™ to awaken to their own infinite potential and free themselves from lifelong emotional blocks and physical illnesses.
Download Description
Heal your life and set yourself free... In 1992, Brandon Bays was diagnosed with a basketball-sized tumor in her uterus. Already experienced as a healer, she felt she needed to explore alternative means of healing before resorting to surgery and drugs. In the process, she found herself catapulted into an extraordinary soul-searching, and ultimately freeing, journey of healing. Just six and a half weeks after her diagnosis, she was pronounced perfectly healthy. Without the need for drugs or surgery, the tumor had disappeared. The profound process of self-healing that Brandon Bays pioneers has since freed thousands from lifelong emotional and physical blocks. Through the unique work she describes in The Journey, we can learn her deeply transformative techniques and reap the rewards. The Journey guides us directly to the root of any longstanding difficulty and then gives us the tools to resolve it -- finally and completely. This powerful process creates remarkable and lasting results. Chronic pain vanishes. Anxiety, depression, and sexual blocks disappear. Self-esteem, grief, and anger issues dissolve, addictions fall away, and illnesses come to an end. All of us know that deep inside we harbor huge potential. We long to experience it -- yet something holds us back. We long to set ourselves free, yet we don't know how to begin. With practical and easy-to-use techniques, the Journey process enables you to: Strip away emotional and physical blocks Tap into your own inner genius Live life as an expression of your highest potential Experience boundless joy within Become truly free
Customer Reviews:
A courageous woman.......2007-10-18
As the title says this book is about the "Journey" of Brandon Bays. Her courage and strength in the midst of lifes trials is truelly inspiring. She has a very warm and pure soul and has developed her own unique formula for coping. She shares that formula with us. She is a very remarkable woman who usues her own insight and experiences to help others to overcome their own personal challenges. I highly recommend this book.
Uplifting.......2007-07-01
What an amazing book. I began to read with a cynically curled lip, but the truth in this book grabbed me and I read it in 2 days and then did the Seminar. I'm sorry if I sound cliche, but this is lifechanging. I don't recognise the doubting me who picked up the book (but I thank God that I did) and I love what I have become and I laugh now at all the emotional rubbish that I have been able to dump and move on without it dragging me down. Buy it, feel it, live!
Yes but....used as a commercial product.......2007-04-29
I really liked the Book of Brandon Bays, I watched the videos on the net so I joined yesterday the seminar of the Journey: 4 hours of video listening to her the stories I knew by heart: impossible for me, so I went out for 30 minutes but I had critics because the energy of the room was disturbed without me. I came back after 30 minutes and took a magazine. At the lunch time, the organiser told me I had too negative energy for the group with this attitude: I replied I wanted to start the practical healing, the methods of B. Bays..not only watching videos.
The man has been so negative with me ,I had to leave the seminar...
Absolutely stunning and healing.......2007-03-25
I read this book in 1 day. It resonated with me instantly. I went to a weekend seminar and did more healing in that weekend than in 13+years of therapy. I am still in awe and amazement at the results I received and am continuing to receive. The material is brillantly packaged into a quick way to uncover feelings and get to the core, and then to Source. And I have been able to carry that with me every day since I left the seminar. One month later and I am still lighter than air and am overwhelmed at my continued healing. you don't have to go to the seminar, however, you can read the book and she will teach you some of the processes in the book and you and a friend can try them out. But if it resonates with you, the seminar is %1000 better.
Tami
The Journey.......2007-01-10
good book I enjoyed the read for me because I have a progressing Brain tumor---
Customer Reviews:
re: AWESOME!.......2007-09-04
This book is amazing!!! My aunt recommended it to me. She is a healer and has always talked to me about cords and chakras, but I never fully understood how it all fits together until now. This book is incredible. It explains scientifically, spiritually, emotionally how it all works energy wise, and I am learning and continuing to learn so much. Truly amazing, and I highly recommend this book!!!
Light Emerging.......2007-08-11
This book is changing my life what i needed next highly recommend it
good seller thank you
Light Emerging : The Journey of Personal Healing.......2006-03-16
I have not begun to read this book yet, but it came highly recommended by other spiritual healers.
Amazing Stuff.......2006-02-17
This book is chock full of amazing things. Reads easily. Many applicable exercises for the every day person.
Another follow up book.......2005-01-28
I read Emerging Light with some high expectations, having read Hands of Light. This book was a dissapointment to me. It seems that Barbara followed the path of "I wrote one successful book, therefore I can cash in one the craze" that many authors do. There wasn't a lot of really relevant information here, though a few tidbits here and there. When she discusses the cords it didn't seems anywhere near as accurate as when Mark Rich writes about them in Energetic Anatomy. The part about the core star isn't anything I had ever heard of and didn't really resonate with me much. I think sticking with Hands of Light is probably a better idea.
Book Description
Designed to renew a positive connection with the body and the emotions; reduce isolation, terror, shame and despair; restore a sense of inner goodness, hope, growth, purpose and meaning; replenish self-esteem and a sense of spiritual connection and protection -- not by reliving the trauma, but by metaphorically shifting it, incrementally over time, with repeated listening. Steve Kohn's closely scored, richly textured, exquisite music potentiates this powerfully evocative imagery. There are also 30 minutes of affirmations. (60 minutes).
Customer Reviews:
How well this works often guages how much you need it..........2007-10-13
This is an extraordinary tape, far surpassing any expectations I might have had. Having experienced severe bullying as a kid, I'm not as together around people as some might be. However, it still works on me after many listenings, and my profound thanks to Ms. Naparstek and her staff for making these recordings. If you start crying after the first listening, make several copies for yourself. This is one CD you're going to wear out very quickly.
This really works!.......2007-09-30
I think that this is effective on a subconscious level. I have been using this CD once a day in addition to seeing my therapist and I am feeling stronger inside and am advocating for myself more. I think it is the affirmations. She has designed it broadly so that those who aren't christian can still benefit from it, even though she speaks of being "safe in the arms of God" at the end. I have to translate that to mean "safe in the flow of the Universe."
I used to think affirmations were nonesense. But I now know through this CD how powerful and effective affirmations are for me.
There is a part where she mentions a "guide". I can't quite get with that, except if I think really hard that the "guide" is my more wiser self, the self that is one with the universe, the common-conscious self guiding my individual self. Perhaps we can have a buddhist version of this CD, that would be most helpful for me as far as terminology filters I struggle with during the session. However, in spite of that, I am still acquiring lots of benefit from it.
I have already recommended it to members of my therapy group, and friends that I know who would benefit from it.
Passable.......2007-06-25
I thought it was okay. I was slightly disappointed, maybe I expected too much after reading many positive reviews. It's nice to listen to but I don't really find it helping with my situation. Overall, it's fine and "pass-able".
Never thought it would happen.......2007-03-23
I'm a very private person who keeps my feelings, thoughts, closely within myself. Yeah, I went through a terrible, traumatic experience, but it had been a couple of years and I figured life had gone on and that was just the way things were going to be.
I've listened to guided imagery cds before, and never really thought anything other than "well, the music was pleasant"....until now. Never before have I had a guided imagery cd lead me through such a kaleidescope of raw emotions--there were parts where I was literally shaking, and yes, even crying. By the end of the cd though, I began to feel like a ton had been lifted off of my shoulders, that the tension was relieved, and that I felt a bit of peace. This doubter has been converted...try the cd out, but be ready for some strong feelings.
Hollywood journey..........2007-03-07
I just purchased this cd. The first part, track 2 of the cd sounds like they're setting the stage for a Hollywood movie. It isn't grounded in reality to me at all. Sending the breath to the heart and all that Eastern Indian meditation type stuff could be confusing to the unconscious mind, can you imagine your inner child running around trying to breath into it's heart? Track three is the affirmations and I found these to be very empowering and supportive. The music thoughout is very excellent and Naparstek's voice is easy to listen to and she speaks at a relaxing pace which is a refreshing break from the rapid speech of some tapes.
I play the affirmations at night while going to sleep. I have found for me none of the cds I have purchased, and there are many, to help me with sleep and self-esteem, trauma, etc, to really help all that much because they do not specifically address the issues I am dealing with. They are helpful in relaxation and aiding to help control negative thinking. I am finding that the real help I need is coming from processes like the Sedona Method and releasing. Focusing by Eugene Gendlin is also helpful, but there again it does not address my specific issues or needs. I have resorted to compiling and making my own personal cds..
Customer Reviews:
12 Step Spiritual Journey.......2007-08-01
This 12 Step Spiritual Journey has been a very help tool for me to be productive in recreating parts of my childhood and healing from issues of abuse. It is a workbook that takes you step by step through the healing process if you are truly willing to work and be honest with yourself. Along with this workbook I have also found the the Recovery Bible to be of great valueThe Life Recovery Bible: New Living Translation Version (Nlt)
This is geared towards Christians, but that's okay if you are a Christian.......2007-05-11
When I first got into recovery, I was afraid of anything that was not Christian, becuase I was so religous. The Bible says "don't listen to the counsel of the ungodly". I interpreted this to mean that if it wasn't from MY church, it was ungodly. I needed the 12 steps, but my Christian friends said I only needed the Bible, more prayer, and more church attendence to solve my problems. This book was extremely helpful becuase it put the "secular" 12 steps into my Christian world. This book has Bible verses to back up each of the 12 steps, which made me less suspicous of them. I see now that the first three steps are about admitting that you are a helpless sinner (alcholic or whatever) and you need God, the next bunch are about how to repent (more than "I'm sorry", but life-changing repentance), then the last few are about ministry (having empathy and brining a message of hope to others). I needed to see that as religous as I was, I was still powerless, and I still needed to turn my life over to God daily. I needed to see that as "perfect" as I was, I still needed to take a moral inventory and make amends to people I had hurt (wow, it really wasn't "all their fault", I had something to do with it too). I needed to see that as many years I had been in the church, I was still as weak and vulnerable as a new Christian to temptation (pride is a good one), and I needed to live the 12 steps every day. I worked through the book, one month per step each year, doing each year in a different color ink. I could see where I was growing, and where I was still stuck. I don't need Bible verses any more to know that the 12 steps are not anti-Christian. I finally have 15 years of sobriety, a healed inner child, and a healthy, happy life. The 12 steps work, with or without Bible verses, but this book makes them accessable for wary Christians.
Where is the Spirituality?.......2007-03-15
The truth is that a newly-sober alcoholic named William Griffith Wilson -- a down-on-his-luck former Wall Street hustler who put on airs of having once been a prosperous stock broker -- just sat down, in December of 1938, and wrote up twelve commandments for the new religious group that he and fellow alcoholic Doctor Robert Smith had started. Those commandments were simply a repackaged version of the practices of a cult religion that was popular at that time, something called "The Oxford Group", or "The Oxford Group Movement", and later, "Moral Re-Armament" -- a religious cult that was created by a deceitful fascist renegade Lutheran minister named Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman -- a nut-case who actually praised Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. Buchman uttered, "I thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler!" This is the basis of your Cult! Niebhur could not stand Buchman. The author of the serenity prayer wrote a nasty gram criticizing Buchman. AA then decided it was time to perhaps distance themselves too, but the damage had been done.
Has helped 100's.......2006-07-27
We have been using this book for at least 10 years in dozens of groups. We have used it in home based small groups and also at our church. We don't do the activities, but do discuss all the questions and read it aloud in the group. We will be starting at least two new groups in the fall using this book. We have seen lives change by going through the questions. It is wonderful and I highly recommend it!
12 Step Process.......2006-07-25
As an AOD counselor, I routinely suggest 12 step process to my clients. For those with a Christian background, the Spiritual Journey Workbook, combined with the Recovery Bible, is a very effective path, and many clients have benefited from this pprocess.
Book Description
Considered a classic in its field, this comprehensive guide will help survivors of sexual abuse improve their relationships and discover the joys of sexual intimacy. Wendy Maltz takes survivors step-by-step through the recovery process using groundbreaking exercises and techniques. Based on the author's clinical work, interviews, and workshops, this guide is filled with first-person accounts of women and men at every stage of sexual healing.
This compassionate resource helps survivors to:
- Identify the sexual effects of sexual abuse
- Eliminate negative sexual behavior and resolve specific problems
- Gain control over upsetting automatic reactions to touch and sex
- Develop a healthy sexual self-concept
Customer Reviews:
It Speaks to Me........2007-08-16
This book was not easy to read.
However. Over and over again it phrased things in the perfect way. I can only read it a few pages at a time. I'm only halfway through, and I'm still inching along. When I'm ready to see, ready to learn, ready to be moved, I read this book.
It's wonderful accompanyment to "Courage to Heal" it takes a much more straightforward approach, and is more heartbreaking to read.
What I like about it is that there is a LOT of work that a single person can do in there. It's not dependent on being in a romantic relationship.
Exc ellent Practical Guide.......2007-08-13
This book is a very practical easy to read step by step process to help recover from abuse. My partner is currently reading it and I have read "Allies in Healing" which is a great supplement for this book if you're in a relationship trying to cope with this type of recovery. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to acknowledge the problem and improve their relationship.
Knowing your not alone.......2007-01-19
This book helps any survivor realize that they are not alone in this healing journey. There are plenty of actual accounts of survivors and their stories. Along with lists that help connect the dots with our current behaviors and the past. Eye opening and soul serching this book is a life saver.
Great resource.......2006-03-23
I felt that this book effectively serves two purposes. First, it is an outstanding resource for survivors of sexual abuse and their partners to feel that they are not alone in their struggles and experiences. Second, as a clinician, this book gave me great insight to the experience of a sexual abuse survivor and gave me direction to use with clients who are survivors. After I finished reading it I loaned it to a client right away. Her response to reading it was as positive as mine.
Very Good and hard to find material.......2002-07-28
It's hard to find actual exercises for you and your partner like in this book. They work even if you figured out a few on your own, it's nice to know why they work so well. It's also good to hear the male side, I wasn't really sure how many men had been abused before, now I know. It's too bad more of us don't talk about it in the open we talk about everything else!
I did not like the exercise about remembering your sexual identity before the abuse started, for some of us that was when we were just out of diapers. I can't even remember much before age nine let alone what sexual identity I had if any. It's better to work with what you are now. I would have liked more stories with the man and the woman, I guess I can find more in other books but this book is very unusual and a "must read".
Customer Reviews:
The best Book I have ever read!!!.......2000-09-09
This book is very easy reading!!! Praise the lord,Gerald was lead to write this book...this is all stuff,that i have known, yet was never able to communicate with others.I have often said if everyone followed the rules of life the world would be a better place...understand one another,love one another,forgive one another,why if ever one loved one another in hole ,there would be no need for forgiveness....This book is not easy to come by were i live,and i can't believe i have never heard of it before now,i just happen to come by it at the libarary. i feel this book goes hand and hand with the bible.,If ever there is a book worth reading ,this is,i know i'm just a little excited about it :)HEY! don't let the bible thing scare you away,it just helps me to understand what the bible is now saying,LOVE =PEACE,if u want peace in your life,here it is.i believe gerald shows even the ones that can't believe in God ,that just a change in thinking can make you a happy person !!!! YEAH!
inspiring, mind opening, and heart felt........1998-12-28
It was not only inspiring, but, it was written with such honesty. I learned so much from this book. It really taught me, what the "ego" mind is all about. Dr. Jampolsky, wrote this book, so that everyone could be aware, how the ego mind works. Clear and simple to understand. Highly recommend this book for anyone who is searching for his/her truth...
Eines der schoensten buecher ueberhaupt.......1997-09-20
Dieses Buch ist in der deutschen Tb.-Ausgabe unter der Serienbezeichnung "esoterisches Wissen" ausgezeichnet. Dies trifft nicht den wahren Gehalt des Buches.
Es ist vielmehr eine sehr persoenliche Rueckschau von Dr. Jampolsky auf sein Leben, die jedem , der dieses Buch liest unglaublich viel geben kann
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