New book HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR CHILDHOOD NOW THAT you’re an adult

Personal Growth / Psychology As children, we learned to get approval by creating facades to help us get our emotiona psychological needs met, but we also rebelled against authority as a way of individui As adults, these conflicting desires leave many of us feeling anxious or depressed becaus authentic selves are buried deep beneath glitzy or rebellious exteriors or some combi thereof. In this provocative book, eclectic teacher and therapist Ira Israel offers a pov comprehensive, step-by-step path to recognizing the ways of being that we created as ct and transcending them with compassion and acceptance. By doing so, we discover o callings and cultivate the authentic love we were born deserving. -.. "Speaks to us all at a level of wisdom and compassion that leads to authenti joy, and freedom. I cannot recommend it highly enough." - Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of Agape International Spiritual Cent "A helpful blend of psychology East and West, a subject that is dear to my heart." - Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart and founder of Spirit Rock C "Weaves together the wisdom of reflection, the beauty of art, and the than and oractices in this illumination