Hairapy: Deeper Than the Roots - Softcover

Michael Blomsterberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977785211 ISBN 13: 9780977785216

Publisher: Mlr Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Do you try to fill your emptiness with endless activity, retail therapy, and mild (or even serious) addictions?
Do you feel limited by the traumatic experiences of your past?
Hairapy: Deeper than the Roots is a book that empowers you to change your life. Michael Blomsterberg has consolidated over two decades of hairapy experience into compassionate, enjoyable essays full of provocative questions and humorous perspective. This wise and insightful book will fill the toolbox in your mind with useful ideas, connect you at a heart-level to your authentic self, and create limitless possibilities for who you know yourself to be.
Hairapy: Deeper than the Roots emphasizes a process of discovery, acceptance, appreciation, and most importantly, feeling. With access to all of our feelings we have choice, mobility, and a context in which achievement happens naturally.
Take a little of the magic of the salon with you wherever you go -- and inspire others through your own courageous example.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Blomsterberg

Certified Life Coach, Author, Visionary
Michael Blomsterberg, author of Hairapy: Deeper than the Roots, has been a professional hairapist for 22 years and has received "Certified Life Coach" designation from Coach For Life, an International Coaching Federation (ICF) approved program. As a child he survived physical and psychological abuse. As an adolescent he survived bulimarexia, drug and alcohol addiction, and bankruptcy. As an adult he survived testicular cancer and the dissolution of a 12-year relationship.
His mission is the synergy of his life experience and professional training: to harness his understandings to contribute to the lives of others. He lives with his partner, Rhett, in Southern California.

From the Back Cover

I dedicate this book to each and every one of you looking for peace, love, acceptance, and fulfillment. May you find it within. Celebrate you, for you are the gift.

From the Inside Flap

I wrote this book because I believe in people. I believe that our truth lies within each and every one of us and that by allowing ourselves the permission to journey inward, limitless possibilities await us.
I see everything as an opportunity -- an opportunity to deepen our capacity of love, faith, compassion, understanding, acceptance and gratitude.
I have taken complete responsibility for my life and for all of my life's experiences. This liberty has brought me tremendous freedom, the power of choice, and infinite mobility. It's a blessing to feel safe in the world in which I live. I invite you to consider your accountability in the totality of your life.
Many of us define ourselves by our accomplishments, our results, our physicality, our outcomes. We (unconsciously) run as fast as we can. We run from feelings that threaten to overwhelm us at our core. Stillness seems almost unfathomable. Will anything ever be enough?
In today's world of doing, I find being to be undervalued. Yes, I am proud of my accomplishments, but I am more fulfilled by who I am.
We are all perfect, beautiful, and whole exactly as we are. What will it feel like to receive that? Trust. You are magnificent.

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Excerpt from Chapter 2: Notice Yourself
This is the beginning of the journey available to all of us. Noticing ourselves, we track down the sources of our discontent and also of our joy. We discover nuggets of valuable information, energy, and personal resources hidden deep within. As we practice observing ourselves without judgment, accepting any feeling or thought we have without reservation, we begin to know ourselves better.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mlr Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977785211
• ISBN 13: 9780977785216
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208