WHOLE: How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623367441 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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She offers many suggestions you can apply in your own life.” Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness“There is a wealth of wisdom here for anyone, whether he or she is struggling with an unhappy childhood, struggling with his or her own addiction or that of loved ones, or just trying to cope with life issues. "Having healed from unimaginable trauma, Melissa Moore gifts the reader with a trove of illuminating stories, insight, and practical techniques to transform suffering into wisdom. Be."Gabor Maté M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction"Melissa Moore has created a guidebook for healing the heart packed with nuggets of practical wisdom.” Mark Wolynn, author of It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes W
A five-point plan to usher you through heartache and toward a stronger, healthier place.“I know how to kill someone and get away with it.” The words spoken by her father when Melissa was a teen haunt her to this day. Two years later, after confessing that he was the serial killer nationally known as the Happy Face Killer, Keith Jesperson was arrested for the murder of eight women. The pain, guilt, and shame that followed her father’s conviction stigmatized Melissa for years until she figured out a way to use her emotions as fuel to free herself from self-imposed limits and set out on a journey to rebuild her fragmented life.Through her work as an Emmy-nominated investigative journalist, television host, educator, and advocate, Melissa created WHOLE, a five-step program to better develop her own approach to healing: Watch the Storm, Heal Your Heart, Open Your Mind, Leverage Your Power, and Elevate Your Spirit.Among other things, she found that the commitment to your core values makes all the difference in getting unstuck; that forgiveness gives the greatest chance of making a future not defined by the past; that there is great value in vulnerability; that creativity is essential to living a full life; and that hope is the basis for everything we feel, believe, and do.In each phase of the program, Melissa inspires you to embrace your past to find wholeness within the parts of your life that you believe to be “broken.” If y
She is the founder of Bookchic LLC, a publishing consultation firm.. MELISSA MOORE is an Emmy-nominated television investigative journalist with Warner Brothers’ Crime Watch Daily and the host of LMN’s Monster in My Family. She is the author of her memoir, Shattered Silence. MICHELE MATRISCIANI is a New York Times bestselling editor, collaborator, and ghostwriter hail
Sarah Gawle said "we can't view our pain through a hirearchical lens" Moore. "we can't view our pain through a hierarchical lens" Moore writes. "Denying your personal pain won't lessen other people's suffering. Denying your personal pain will only increase it."This book really hit me where I've been hiding a lot of hurt. But bringing it to the surface means I can stop letting it fester, thinking that somehow I'm saving other people from hearing it if I say nothing.My mom, brother, and my mom's whole side of the family deal with pain with the very stoic 'just soldier forth' mentality, which I've never been able to do. Melissa Moore's book helps me in a way that doesn't shrug off my feeling. "When your life tuns into trauma and loss, and" according to kay johnson. When your life tuns into trauma and loss, and you think the sun will never again shine, read WHOLE.The book gives more than hope for change, it provides the will and the how to do it. Everyone who has ever cried, feared, or longed for healing has to read WHOLE. kj. I felt like I had several aha moments right from the beginning Leslie Travis Collins I felt like I had several aha moments right from the beginning of the book, and it was exactly what I needed to read at this time in my like. Moore states, "the storms that we live through are part of us only in that they have led us to this page, then that's where they stop. A storm functions as the critical backstory or the prequel to the legend that explains why the wicked witch became wicked in the first place. What keeps her wicked is entirely separate and absolutely her choice." I love the wicked witch reference! We are all on a different journy through this life and none of us will go unscathed. You can no