Hidden Treasure: How to Break Free of Five Patterns that Hide Your True Self

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2018 Readers' Favorites Book Awards Bronze Medal in Non-FictionMotivational National Indie Excellence Awards Winner - Personal Growth Body, Mind and Spirit Awards Finalist - Spiritual Psychology and Self-help categories Are you looking for more personal growth or feel like you want something more from life, but youre not sure where to start In this award-winning book, author Alice McDowell, PhD, reveals how powerful, deeply embedded behavior patternsoften the result of wounds suffered early in lifecan influence every aspect of your life and identity, and hide your true self. Hidden Treasure offers tools you will use again and again to help soften and heal these patterns, make sense of your life and relationships, and begin to live a full and radiant life.

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2018 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Personal Growth 2018 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Self-Help: General 2018 Body, Mind, Spirit Book Award Finalist in Spiritual Psychology 2018 Body, Mind, Spirit Book Award Finalist in Self Help Alice McDowell has brought us a gem with Hidden Treasure! She has masterfully shared with us her in-depth knowledge and clinical experience working with the 5 Belief Systems / Character Structure. The material is clear, practical, easy to understand, and the exercises are sure to deepen self-awareness on ones transformational journey. Anne Hoye, Dean, Barbara Brennan School of Healing and The Brennan Institute Hidden Treasureprovides a comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of five fundamental ways that humans distort their inner Light in order to protect themselves from real or imagined harm. It is a pleasure to read, with abundant real-life vignettes that help to flesh out the subtle workings of each of the defense structures.Written with exceptional clarity, it offers a number of approaches for healing each structure, making it eminently useful to anyone motivated to grow emotionally, psychologically, or spiritually. David Harman, PhD, Co-founder of Inner Source Healing and co-author of The Way of Love Based on decades of experience in guiding people towards psychological and spiritual wholeness, Alice McDowell introduces the five personality types of bio-enegetic therapy and shows how they can support self-healing and transformation. Practical, clear, and wise, this book is a precious gift to anyone seeking to understand the patterns that underlie their behavior. Jalaja Bonheim, PhD, author of The Sacred Ego: Making Peace with Ourselves and Our World Hidden Treasurewill be of immense value to anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the forces and circumstances that create the sense of self. Readers may be surprised to learn how the five basic character defenses McDowell describes manifest as distinguishable traits in the physical body. The treasure is the path of personal development and spiritual unfolding that knowledge of our character structure offers. Lisa Loustanau, Director of Education, Institute of Core Energetics Actions for the body, insights for the soulHidden Treasure is filled with gems polished by McDowell's patient, exacting, and extensive experience guiding people from many professions and life paths. She has synthesized a wise and gentle approach to human development and personal freedom that can be used alone or with others. Mary Gilliland, author ofGathering Fireand theWriting Walk-In Service Handbook

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Alice McDowell, PhD is a counselor in private practice, retreat guide, and cofounder of Light on the Hill Retreat Center, as well as the founder of the Hidden Treasure programa three-year training in personal and spiritual growth. A professor of religious studies at Ithaca College for eighteen years, she now facilitates groups devoted to inner work. McDowell has trained with healers, humanist and transpersonal psychologists, Sufi and Buddhist teachers, and Christian contemplatives, and has guided people in their personal and spiritual journeys for over thirty years. She draws upon her diverse training and life experience to help others awaken to their true selves, their divinity within.