Doing the Work: Healing our Body, Mind & Spirit by Getting to Know the Self(3 Self.Care.)

Perfect for anyone ready to explore their deepest self, this book helps us understand why it can be so tricky to do this work of self-healing. Written in plain English, including real-life examples by Jill Loree and Scott Wisler, Doing the Work arms spiritual seekers with the tools needed to take on this task, which is arguably the most satisfying thing a person can do with their life. From Chapter 12: "...But "doing the work" does not mean "being all better". It means being able to be with what's actually here right now. It means not acting out our negativity on other people. Rather, we work to understand what drives us, and then slowly and gently turn our ship around. To do this, we are going to need to start feeling what we feel. We will need to start watching ourselves in action, and this may be uncomfortable. That's one reason we so often disconnect from ourselves-there's stuff going on in us we don't want to know about... This is what makes this particular path such a tough one. We must start to feel and see what we have not been willing or able to feel or see until now. For there's nothing we can avoid if we want to transform our Lower Self and learn to live from our divine essence. We must come to know how we are blocking our own light. We must realize that no one else is doing anything to us-we are doing it to ourselves. Also, we must come to realize we are the only ones who can free ourselves from our self-made prisons... Our work is to use every crappy thing that raises an Emotional Reaction up from our depths as fertilizer for great growth and healing. Every crappy thing." CONTENTS Step, Together, Step: THE PROCESS Living in a 100-Story House: THE SETUP Building Castles in the Sky: REALITY I'm Totally Fine, I Feel Nothing: NUMBNESS Would I Rather be Right or Happy?: DUALITY Praying for a Toehold: TRUTH So You're the Rubber and I'm the Glue?: OUR WORK My Favorite F-Word: FREEZING, FIGHTING OR FLEEING Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: HIDING I Spy with My Little Eye: LITTLE-L LOWER SELF What are we Fighting For?: BIG-L LOWER SELF Taking the Long Way Home: DOING THE WORK It's Time for a Break: CRISIS There's a Hole in my Bucket: TRUST Emptying Out the Well: TEARS Making Space for Not Knowing: UNITY www.phoenesse.com

About the Author :
A neatnik with a ready sense of humor, Jill Loree's first job as a root-beer-stand carhop in Northern Wisconsin was an early sign that things could only get better. She would go on to throw pizzas and bartend while in college, before discovering that the sweet spot of her 30-year sales-and-marketing career would be in business-to-business advertising. A true Gemini with a degree in Chemistry and a flair for writing, she enjoys the challenge of thinking crea-tively about scientific topics. Her brain fires on both the left and right sides. That said, her real passion in life has been her spiritual path. Raised in the Lutheran faith, she became a more deeply spiritual person in the rooms of AA, a spiritual recovery program, starting in 1989. In 1997, she was introduced to the wisdom of the Pathwork, which she describes as "having walked through the doorway of a fourth step and found the whole library." She completed four years of Pathwork Helpership training in 2007 followed by four years of apprenticing and discernment before stepping into her full Helpership in 2011. She has been a teacher in the Transformation Program offered at Sevenoaks Retreat Center in Madison, Virginia, operated by Mid-Atlantic Pathwork, where she also led marketing activities for over two years and served on the Board of Trustees. In 2012, Jill completed four years of Kabbalah training in a course called the Soul's Journey, achieving certification for hands-on healing using the energies embodied in the tree of life. Not bad for a former pom-pom squad captain who once played Dolly in Hello Dolly! She is now the proud mom to two adult children, Charlie and Jackson, who were born and raised in Atlanta. Having grown weary of borrowing other people's last names, Jill now happily uses her middle name as her last-it's pronounced loh-REE. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing, running, yoga and hiking, especially in the mountains. As she turns the corner onto the back nine in life, she has consciously decoupled from the corporate world and is now dedicating her life to writing and spiritual teaching. Discover more from Jill Loree at www.phoenesse.com.