Awakening in Time: The Journey from Codependence to Co-Creation - Softcover

Small, Jacquelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553349554 ISBN 13: 9780553349559

Publisher: Bantam, 1991

Synopsis

Presents a psychospiritual approach to co-dependency, employing the ideas behind the twelve-step program, Jungian thought, and Eastern philosophy to challenge co-dependency as a disease

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About the Author

Jacquelyn Small is a nationally recognized author and speaker on psychospiritual topics. Through her non-profit educational and service organization, Eupsychia Institute, Jacquelyn Small conducts healing and training workshops on soul-based approaches to healing and addiction. Her seven published books include Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Principles of Soul-Based Psychology (2001), Transformers-The Artists of Self-Creation, and Becoming Naturally Therapeutic. Jacquelyn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in psychology and social work. She served as the director of training for the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse for nine years and has served on the external faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Additionally, she serves as a board member of the National Council on Codependence.

From Kirkus Reviews

Small is a former addictions therapist now practicing ``transpersonal psychology,'' a New Age psychotherapeutic approach that combines a cornucopia of ideas and techniques. Here, with all due respect to the codependency and addiction theorists, she asserts that they have not gone far enough: They have labeled the problem, she says, but failed to offer a way to get beyond it, thereby instilling a sense of helplessness, shame, and defensiveness in some of their adherents. Small's aim is to outline a program of self-realization, beginning with the idea that codependency--giving away one's power to a person, an addictive substance, an organization, whatever--is not a shameful feeling but an impulse, however misguided, to ascend to a higher reality, an important first step in learning how to live and love authentically. Using the ancient theory of seven chakras, or energy centers, ascending the spine and influencing spiritual and psychological development, she explores the characteristics of each chakra, its developmental stage, its potentials for growth, its imbalanced codependent manifestations. Small offers a four-point plan for spiritually healthy living, composed of meditation, inner work (exploration of issues holding one back), study, and service (finding one's place in the world). Guided imagery exercises offer the reader the way to practice what Small calls ``heartwork,'' rather than simply processing these ideas through the mind. Many will find Small's contribution to the literature of ``new paradigm'' psychology compassionate, provocative, practicable, and refreshingly unpretentious. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0553349554
• ISBN 13: 9780553349559
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304